Pickles by Brian Crane for October 09, 2020

I know Nelson is your grandson Earl, but it’s time to a talk with Nelsons mom your daughter. The boy is becoming a nuisance.

Kids seem to have an inordinate dislike of naps, no matter WHO is taking them. It’s nice that they need (and in good homes get) more sleep than the adults, who then get at least some time to themselves.

Nelson was afraid that Grandpa was dead, especially when he didn’t wake up the first time he spoke to him.

No," just resting my eyes, Nelson"! My father used to say that!

My grandkids, when they were that age, would pull my eyelids open and ask if I was sleeping.

The question you can never answer ‘NO’- ARE YOU AWAKE?

You might as well get up now, Earl.

Earl how could you not notice Nelson on your big gut ? Or were you playing possum !

that’s the problem with not being a snorer, Earl…

Nelson’s waaaay to old to be THAT dense…

This strip reminds me of the Maypo commercials from the early 1960’s. Little Marky would pester his grampa until he got his Maypo cereal. My favorite one was when Marky, dressed as a cowboy, mounted his horse (grampa) and said “giddy up you old rattlesnake”. I often use this line to lovingly wake my wife.

I could never understand napping on the couch. If you sleep in the living room, you should expect to get your nap interrupted. Go all in, go to the bedroom, put on your PJs, and take a quality nap.

Next time use a mirror, kid.

All he had to do was change the channel….

Reminds me of the nurse that woke me up to give me a sleeping pill.

Kid was wondering if Grandpa had crossed the Styx. Someone has to teach Nelson to look for respiration. That will save a lot of anxiety. Maybe, buy him a small mirror?

This is a take on a nurse waking you up so she can give you your sleeping pill.

Roscoe in this script would have been perfect . Sorry Brian and I mean it .

Oy! Nelson is a persistent little boy…

doesn’t matter these are the best years savor them

You can never answer “yes” to that questìon.

I remember those days

Grampa should be outside doing something with his grandson rather than napping on the couch …

My oldest grandson did that to me, years ago. He said he wasn’t sure I was sleeping, because he didn’t hear me snoring.

My BFF Chucky wants to stick a needle in your eye.

Just wanted to make sure you weren’t dead. Yet.

Meaning Nelson is very bored.

Instead of dead, I suppose! I do that to my dogs sometimes when they sleep strangely, lol!

So much for a nap

People have been murdered for less.

I had a friend come visiting along with her precocious five-year-old. He would always say, “Do you mind if I interrupt?” before asking a seemingly endless series of questions. I commended his mother, who responded, “Did you notice he never waits for you to answer?”

On a serious note there have been people who thought a loved one was deep in sleep when in fact they had died in their sleep. I know that this is just a comic strip but I wonder if Nelson was just making sure that Earl was alive and not dead. I get the impression that the boy was starting to panic and not just being intrusive on Earl’s slumber.

“Hmmm, not dead after all…”

When I would go to my mom’s house, she’d fall asleep watching TV and so would I. If she woke up, she said, loudly, “ARE YOU ALSEEP?” I say want Ben did. RIP Mom.