November 1, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2025 • 5 Younger Neighbor Passes Judgment On Seniors DEAR ABBY: My neighbor is 80. DEAR ABBY: I’m a middle-aged How do I sever this relation- to participate in them anymore. She’s my political opposite. She’s DEAR ABBY adult with a dilemma about a ship with these clueless women known me since I was 13. Her hus- friend who lacks social awareness. of luxury? If I keep saying I’m DEAR READERS: Time really band died 10 or so years ago. All her alone. My mom died at 89, and I had told her in the past that I had unavailable, they’ll ask when flies! Daylight saving ends at 2 a.m. she does all day is stay inside her she was NEVER like that. What a problem with a mutual friend, I WILL be available. To make Sunday for most folks. If you are house (even when it’s sunny) and gives with some of these older “Michelle,” whom I found tox- matters worse, they like to get watch TV news. I try to be nice to people? -- NEIGHBOR IN NEW ic and disrespectful of my family. together for traditional holiday one of them, don’t forget to turn her because she’s alone and prob- JERSEY She responded that it was my is- luncheons and dinners with their your clocks back one hour tonight ably depressed, but sometimes I DEAR NEIGHBOR: I’ll give you sue, not Michelle’s, so I distanced spouses. I feel drained of energy at bedtime. And while you’re at want to curse her to high heaven. a clue about “what gives” with your myself from both of them for a few after I’ve been in their company. it, be sure to put fresh batteries in I borrowed $40 from her and neighbor. You asked to borrow $40 months. Please help. -- PULLING AWAY your carbon monoxide and smoke told her I’d give it back the next from a retired senior, promising Later, she suddenly texted me for IN PENNSYLVANIA detectors. -- LOVE, ABBY day. Well, I didn’t get paid un- to return the money in 24 hours. a lunch she wanted to have with DEAR PULLING AWAY: You til two days later. I saw her in the When the money wasn’t forthcom- the three of us. At the time, I was have two choices regarding how to Dear Abby is written by Abigail driveway the next day, and she an- ing, she became annoyed and con- burying my mother-in-law and handle this. The first is to contin- Van Buren, also known as Jeanne grily asked, “Where’s my money?” cerned. Stop blaming all seniors didn’t respond immediately. The ue being “busy,” and when asked I told her the story and got it back for the way one of them reacted next day, she insisted on an answer when you will be available, tell Phillips, and was founded by her to her promptly. when you didn’t keep your word, as the lunch was in a few days. I them you don’t know. The oth- mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact We want to check on elderly and you will have fewer problems responded that I was “unavailable er would be to bite the bullet and Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com folks, but sometimes they’re nasty with them. for the foreseeable future,” and for tell them that you no longer enjoy or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA and cranky, and I just want to leave them to enjoy. those get-togethers and don’t want 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield