Pickles by Brian Crane for April 15, 2010

Nelson, you need to hook up with Calvin. He’ll teach you fun.

Hey Yukoner, now that’s a good idea! Nelson would have a blast.

He’d have fun with Curtis too.

woo hoo how do they stand all that excitement !

Hey, kid, take a walk on the wild side!

For the love of mercy, kid, either find something to do or shut up!!!

Sell the Buick!!

Knit picking! Always a blast!

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun” ~Katherine Hepburn

“Countin’ fuzz balls on the walls, that don’t bother him at all…”

Knit one, hurl two?

Try belly button lint picking, that is a hobby that requires a lot of patience and skill.

And that’s what you you to look forward to in your old age, Nelson. Get out of there, while you still can!

I’m cleaning my trifocals and I’m going to be 61 in three days. Whooo-peeee!!!

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Fun is in the eye of the beholder. In this case Opal and Earl. Senior fun vs kid fun. Nelson needs friends of hisown age to play with.

Another laughs, again! X-D Earl, quit pulling the buzz-balls from your sweater.

can’t they take him to six flags and let him have fun while they sit on a bench and knit and pick fuzz balls?

Wow! If that’s fun, I must be having a ball!

If Earl and Opal are Nelson’s maternal grandparents, then I wonder what his paternal grandparents are like.

I used to have fun with my maternal grandparents (Clarence 1911-2007, Jewel 1917-2008) until they aged more and their deaths. Nothing like Six Flags, though. Some carpentry, rifle shooting, hiking, etc.

As for my paternal grandparents (Harley 1904-1982, Ardith 1907-1971), never even knew them before my parents’ marriage and my older brother’s birth.

Stop, Stop, Stop, Earl and Opal! you’re giving the Grandparents of today a bad name! Brian Crane should read Stone Soup, that Granny has a younger boyfriend and volunteering in poverty countries with Habitat for Humanity! I wouldn’t want him to copy another strip, but please! I’m waiting with baited breath that something fun will actually happen!

Pickles is ten times funnier than Stone Soup!