Pickles by Brian Crane for October 06, 2020

Go home boy you’re getting on my nerves.

nice save, Nelson, in the end

Don’t feel so bad Earl. I showed a co-worker a pic of me taken on Christmas Day in 1980 when I was 24 years old. She really liked the guy in the photo. I told her that it was a nephew. After telling me how cute he was I told her the truth that it was actually me. Her eyes bugged out of their sockets and her jaw nearly hit the floor. She said, “My gosh Michael—what happened to you?!” So don’t feel so bad Earl. You got off lightly with your grandson! :-)

Smart kid.

Time makes it’s mark, some day you will see, Nelson!

Too true. Good qualities stay, but handsome goes away.

A case of good looks changing dimensions..

Well Earl when one has a good cook for a wife tis easy to loose the lean, mean fighting machine look !

A Persian maxim: Learn ethics (e.g. honesty) From children.

At least Nelson said that you have other good qualities, Earl…take that as a win!

Never put a kid on the spot like that, Earl! That bald spot I mean….Bwaaaahahahahaaa

This is Earl. He has a great personality. Interested?

I’ve been told I look good for an old lady. Like to think it’s a compliment.

Makes me glad, I kept my rugged good looks.

If my honey sees this comment, she’ll laugh herself silly.

Anybody who thinks he’s handsome at that (our) age is delusional.

As the ‘mean’ grandpa, I have told my youngest granddaughters(cousins), that they need to stop eating so much, because they were growing out of being cute. That is going to make it hard for me to find boyfriends for them. I am not going to tell them, that they are going from ‘cute’ to ‘pretty,’ because that will start their vanity going.

Out of the mouths of babes

Earl should know better.. setting up Nelson to lie is just not fair.

In those days, people would say, “Do you know you look just like Barry Manilow?”

I ALWAYS get a giggle out of Pickles. Why are there no more Pickles books!?

The kid’s got a future as a diplomat.

In old age, you definitely need to have something going for you besides looks, because your looks most likely left town on a bus at least a decade ago.

Roscoe will become a politician!

Before I tell my little story I want to comment that I have a very pretty adult daughter – here’s what happened a while ago: my 15 yr old grandson was looking in my old photo albums & he came across a vacation picture of me when I was the age my daughter is now & he said to his mom (my daughter) – mom where did you go on vacation without me? He thought that was his my mom….when my daughter told him that was his grandma he wouldn’t believe it at first….biggest compliment I have ever received!

Pull my finger kid, and future man of the cloth.

Earl should have said thank you to Nelson for his compliment, and then kept his big mouth shut. It’s called quitting while you are ahead.

Sorry Earl, Your get up and go got up and went and took your looks with it!

There’s handsome and there’s age-appropriate handsome.

I got to an age when I would pass by a store window, see a reflection of an old woman and then realize it was me! I’m still 30 in spirit, but nowhere near that chronologically. Fortunately, I’ve made peace with the way I look now. I’m trying to age gracefully, with no plans for plastic surgery, unless my eyelids start to droop so heavily that I have trouble seeing.

That’s right up there with “She’s got a good sense of humor” blind date recommendation.

Many years ago, I showed someone a picture of my when I was in the Marines. She said…you used to be good looking. But it didn’t make me want to shave off my beard.