Pickles by Brian Crane for July 07, 2016

When was the last time Earl actually enjoyed shopping with Opal? I hope not for their wedding rings and outfits those many, many years ago.

If he went shopping with her most of the time he’dget out of the house more!

He would rather shoot himself in the foot than go shopping with Opal.

Make him his sandwich and be gone already.

Sounds just like my husband. He has delusional hearing, too. Sigh.

Why on earth women want to drag their husbands shopping I will never understand. Usually these are the same women who would have a fit if their husbands dragged them to a sporting event.

Christmas shopping is the worst.

Oh, he heard you perfectly, Pearl.

I don’t call it delusional hearing. I prefer to call it selective hearing !Or, as my grandma used to say to me:" Yer like Billy Weir*What ye don’t want, ye don’t hear "

*Billy Weir being a character in Portadown, Ireland who pretended to be deaf .

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

I think you should reword that, Opal.

I prefer to go shoping solo

Shopping by myself with list……. in and out at minimal cost. With the other half, no list and four times as much as we need.

I’d rather have a sandwich than go shopping.

Not all women like shopping the same way not all men like sports.

xxx

That’s only the second time I’ve ever heard a reference to that kind of sandwich, the first time was in the great film “Harvey” where it was the preference of one of the guards at the local looney bin, played by the character actor Jesse White (who later played the lonely Maytag repairman in a series of classic TV commercials.)

When you know something makes someone suffer, give him the chance to opt out to show just a little how much he loves you.If he does it anyway, that shows how much he loves you.

Maybe she just wants to spend time with him away from the tv? Make your own sandwich, Earl… Opal’s got shopping to do!

My woman hates to go shopping! God! I LOVE HER!!!

Apparently it doesn’t matter what Opal wants to go shopping for. I think a lot more if I shop alone. If I shop with someone else, I’m less likely to put items back on shelves or do calculations regarding how much food costs per ounce.