Pickles by Brian Crane for July 08, 2018

way to put your foot in your mouth, Earl

“I wanted to go shopping today anyway.”

I guess the newness has worn off his marriage already hasn’t it? lol. HE probably would have said the same thing even if his wife had asked him the day after their wedding. What a lazy guy, lately!

That doggone Earl outsmarted himself this time

Or she’s way smarter that he thought!

It’s best this way, Earl. Do it now and get it over with.

I’m putting panel three up on my fridge. I’ll ignore it today, and take a look at it (maybe) tomorrow.

I knew it! I KNEW IT!! Brian Crane has a listening device in my house.

Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow.Especially if there is no tomorrow.

See, Earl, you can only do something TODAY, so today you should have been thinking of an excuse to not go shopping tomorrow

She needs to learn to drive.

I prefer to go shopping by myself. The essentials get bought and I come straight home. If the other half is there, all sorts of things we don’t need get bought and we’re out for hours.

I learned an important etiquette lesson the hard way: Years ago I had a friend who had small children. Sometimes I’d get a call from her saying, “Say! What are doing this afternoon?” when she was looking for a babysitter. It was a manipulative way of getting what she needed, since if I said, “Oh, not much” the answer would be “Oh, great! you can watch the kids.” That now so annoys me that I now give the response, “That depends; what do you have in mind?” to anyone, even my husband, when asked the question. Technically rude, but it’s what that question deserves.

Wise guy!

It works both ways, though. “Jam yesterday and jam tomorrow…”

Walked right into it……

When certain Arabic countries restrict women’s unaccompanied movement for the same obsolete tradition, we call it superstition.