Pickles by Brian Crane for September 22, 2013

Be careful Earl you can get into big trouble doing that

The art of selective hearing.

The art of coping (not) with hearing loss. It is tough. I know first hand

Getting a taste of your own medicine are you, Earl? I know you do that to Opal all the time!

Looks like you’re not the only one, Earl.

Ding!

First new Sunday strip in 4 weeks!

A strip without Opal… Thatsss A Nice.

Those who would know insist I was born with 2 ears — yet one of them seems to be a lot older than the other!

“Yeah… Yep… Mmm… Sure… Really?”

LOL xxx

Good final punch line.

“Hoisted by his own petard.”

I am very hard of hearing and depend on my hubby in social situations . . . when I am beginning to lose what is being said I look up at him . . . he’s over six feet tall and I am considerably shorter . . . it is his cue to make the appropriate facial response which I copy. So far it has worked. He fills me in as soon as he can and I can respond later in a quieter setting or in a little note to the speaker later. I shall get a hearing aid when two more pressing surgeries (one for each of us) are over and paid for. Until then, bless my dear better half!

Earl’s giving away all our best strategies

Nobody really listens. That’s why phychiatrists get $200 an hour to sit there pretending they’re listening. People really want to have someone listen to them.