Soapy ... Sunday, too? Sure, why not

Mary Worth, 7/14/24

Dawn has said a couple times that she and her mother don't agree on politics but hasn't offered any specifics, and this reminds me that at one point I tried to come up with a list of the political ideologies of the whole Mary Worth cast and immediately decided that neither Wilbur nor Dawn had ever voted in their lives. I'm imagining that her mother is a fairly middle-of-the road suburban type, maybe a former Romney Republican who became an MSNBC lib during the Trump era; she mostly just wants Dawn to at least register to vote, and thinks her daughter refuses to do so because she's one of those protesting anti-electoralist leftists like her friends' kids who go to Ivy League and Seven Sisters colleges, when in fact Dawn just finds everything about the American system of governance "confusing" and thinks about it as little as possible.

Anyway, I know Wilbur's emotionally fragile right now, but I regret to tell him that "Let's do something fun this week!" doesn't sound like a plan at all! It actually sounds like what you'd say if you don't want to hang out with someone but also don't want to explicitly say that, and you hope that not nailing down any specifics will allow you to get out of a social obligation unnoticed.