Pickles by Brian Crane for June 05, 2013

Ha! Love this one!

I wonder if Opal ever got a drivers license? We alwayssee Earl driving.

Senior Moment # 196-5 ! Earl could sell that Studebaker for a small fortune.

Yeah, and I started leaving my turn signal on for several miles now. Embarrassing.

Happens to the best of us. :)

My sister’s rule of thumb: never drive behind an old man with a hat. In Florry-DUH!, I have found this to be very true, particularly with the turn signals: the left blinker means either “I am turning left 500 feet ahead” or “I have been turning left for the last 5 miles”.

Even worse, I recently pulled to a stop on my motorcycle and forgot to put my foot down. Common sense failed, gravity prevailed. The bike is fine, I’m still gettin’ better.

I was doing that before I hit 30. :)

Earl and Opal belong to the generation where the man always drives. I’m glad to see them in a strip where they are in their car. They really should take a road trip. That would make a lot of interesting cartoon strips.

Insomnia may do that to you, and often gets worse with age.

Stop signs used to be orange and black. When they changed them to the red and white style, nobody believed they were ‘real’.

Darn. I was going to say I remember when stop signs turned from yellow to red, but Flyer Tom got there first. Well-played, Tom.

(Strangely, the European traffic signs standard uses the American red, octagonal stop sign. Based on what I see in pictures of foreign countries, most of them even use the English STOP and not their native language. I understand they adopted it because the shape says it’s a stop sign even when covered with ice or snow.)

My mother in law didn’t need a stop sign. She stopped at every cross road – just in case.

1954 Studebaker?

EarlP2: The ’53 part is informative, but redundant. That was the only year they had that grill shape.

Is that a ’49 or a ’50? I had a greener one, a ’50.

’53! okay, I believe it.

Actually, I think I was right the first time. the ‘53 doesn’t look like that, but the 50 does.

That Old guy in front of you with his Left turn signal on for the last fifty miles . Is most likely a retired NASCAR diver.

I didn’t see a stoplight in the strip, only a permanent stop sign.

I’m so glad I am not the only one who has done this! lol

And he bought that Studebaker new when his kids moved out.

Edclectic, been there and done that! God bless.

My mother had a license but hated driving. Some men I know wouldn’t let anyone else drive, even another man. Which made family trips interesting.

Studebaker Or a Tucker ?

I do that !

My husband once stopped at a red light and took a drink from his water bottle. When the light turned green, he put his foot on the gas but he forgot to put his hands back on the wheel. Fortunately, I was there to yell at him.

Here in Arizona, after you get your license, you don’t have to renew until you turn 65. I moved here when I was 42, so I have a 23-year license. (They didn’t even test me — I just handed over my California license and they gave me an Arizona one.) So a lot of people haven’t even thought about what a stop sign (or other traffic signal) means in decades.

On a related note, Arizona leads the nation as the best state to get killed in an auto accident.

So, yes, I stop for a long time at stop signs.

I can’t decide which is worse – when I lived in Florida, it was the turn signals and the napping at the stop lights and stop signs. In Ecuador, it beep your horn and keep on going. Stop signs here, are only or the timid.

In a full Sunday strip years ago, Opal was sitting in the car, checking her watch, huffing, puffing, fuming and in general cussing out Earl for dawdling somewhere after she’d done some groceryin’..“Where IS that man, anyways??” Last two panels; “Grampa, where’s Gramma?” Earl says; “I don’t know, son, she left this morning to do some shopping !” Hy-larious !! Wish I could FIND that page again, but after wading through 6 or 8 years of this strip, I’d forget what I was lookin’ for before I found it !!

I did that the other day. That was some good stuff I had smoked.

Not yet, but I find I’m beginning to do some “old folks” things.

The colouring is beautiful… We all do stupid things, Earl.

Remember when Opal was looking everywhere for her mobile and she was talking on it the whole time?

LOL xxx

In my city, I try not to get in traffic behind a Lincoln Mercury. Every time I see one, it’s being driven by an old person. I think the local dealership gives them away to people > 65.

." I think the local dealership gives them away to people > 65."

I wish, kid…. I WISH !

Funny today, also the art work is great in all the panels. Earl and Opal are out of the house.

There was a cartoon of a robot looking at a STOP sign.Obeying the third law of robotics, it had obviously not moved in years.

The Studebaker is back! Thanks, Brian.

I once stopped for a flashing yellow light.

Candace Barron: It beats running a flashing red one!

Guilty

Loved the 50 Studebaker Starlight!

Senior moment nothing! I was 27 or 28 and did that. Guy behind me honked.

I started with a 51 with good engine, tranny, etc, but a bad body. Bubba Marvin found a 50 in a junkyard near Rushville, IL, so we went to get it. Had to find a wheel or two so we could tow it home. There were a number of differences in the two cars, such as the wheels on the 51 having 5 holes, and the 50 had 4. The overdrive feature where you let up on the accelerator over a certain RPM and it would shift to OD couldn’t be implemented, for some reason, on the 50 body. But the 50 was solid as a rock.I went back to college, my bubba left his job and used that car while working on a construction site in southern Illinois. While it was parked at a truck stop, a huge roll of sheet steel broke loose on a parked next to trailer and crushed the silly thing. Bubba and I laughed and got ourselves a 55 Chevy to work on, bad engine, bad body, it all matched. Lots of fun.

I have done that! was an early monday….LOL