Pickles by Brian Crane for May 12, 2014

Comparing your grandson to garbage. Nice.

Earl must still be in bed.

“Ma, the garbage mans’ here.”

“Have him leave 2 buckets full, Pa. We’re having company over for supper tonight.”

Ma & Pa Kettle.

No comment on the child who feels he is put upon for doing household chores. Mind you, I haven’t taken out the compost yet. Um. tomorrow. I’ll take it out tomorrow.

I didn’t know he was ""special"".

Maybe that’s what happens when you keep telling a kid he or she is “special”.

I hate to break it to you Nelson, but “special” now means impaired – probably mentally.

I wish that was my only chore when I was a kid…

Hurry up Nelson it’s starting to leak.

Ah – he goes to public school.

This is why I love this strip! If this was a Family Circus, it would have ended in the third panel with a fat face kid surounded by hearts and crap. Here the kid is compared to a bag of trash! Love it!

Love it!

xxx

This strip is so cool!

Don’t mess with Grandma

Sounds like a line from, “My Old Man’s a Dustman” by Lonnie Donnegan.

You tell a kid that he’s special often enough and he’ll believe it. Our first child was a beautiful blonde haired, blue eyed little girl. Everyone commented on her looks. Once, the wife took her into the bank with her and a teller asked her, “Do you know how pretty you are?” She said, “Yes ma’am!” She was about 3 or 4 at the time and she gave an honest answer to the question. Now, she’s 50 and still my blue eyed, blonde beauty!