Pickles by Brian Crane for February 04, 2021

Doggy style……

The kid could swing it over his back and it would look like a backpack.

perhaps, Opal, there was a rookie service dog in the store which suddenly snatched your purse from Earl’s hands?

I think that a guy who is secure in his own masculinity will not give a moment of thought about how he looks holding his wife’s purse.

“It’s a man thing….”

Arf!

A riddle in the form of a terse verse: When does “Hold my purse” go from bad to worse?

My husband carries my bag most of the time.

Earl can pretend it is a “Bro-bag”, a sort of purse for men!

I thought you said manly, Earl…not Roscoe style!

Next time take your duffle bag … I mean purse with you Opal ;-)

Just ask a sales assistant for a bag and put it in there.

I’ve done that for my wife many times, (minus the teeth marks and saliva) but these days most if not all people readily realize what’s going on and its no big thing.

There are only 3 times that I find holding my wife’s handbag awkward; when she is greeting card shopping in a Hallmark store, when she is shoe shopping, and the dreaded when she is shopping for jeans. The normal bathroom run not a problem…but those tasks go on for hours [last jeans run 150 pairs tried on…3 pair purchased].

It’s not unusual for a woman to ask someone else to hold her purse while she uses the dressing room. They are in an area that sells women’s clothing (and shoes). Under those circumstances, most people who see Earl holding a purse will correctly guess the reason. They will not think any less of him.

Don’t, just don’t.

what? he was hungry. :)

I am wondering what happen to his comfortable sweatshirt!

Holding my wife’s purse in a store is a pleasure. It’s the closet I get to my money, all month.

There are far worse ways to get left holding the bag…

Opal should not take the boys shopping with her! Boring!

A manly man like Earl does not have “saliva.” That is spit Opal.

Not to mention that her purse probably weighs as much as a Buick

I don’t understand asking someone to hold your purse or having someone be ashamed to do so for a brief moment if absolutely necessary. Being self-reliant isn’t so difficult.

I think it looks good, but leather would look nicer, I always liked the leather mail bags from the 50’s.

The purse has all of her personal information and links to all of your money. Put on the black glasses and become Tommy Lee Jones guarding the universe.

In many “women’s” stores or departments, there’s a waiting area. Why do they have fashion-type magazines there? What would be wrong with Popular Mechanics or Outdoor Life, since it’s normally men sitting there?

I find holding it at arm’s length with a pair of tongs works

Earl – get a back pack, and drop her purse in it. She has her purse and you are not embarrassed.

“Fetch! Good doggie”… oops, I meant ‘husband’

More dogly than manly, seems to me.

By a canvas shopping bag and put the purse in there.

I always ask my wife to carry a purse that goes with what I’m wearing…

While your comments show how you all have the right attitude, I think it would be nice if we could have humor without analyzing it to decide if it’s “PC”. The cartoonist is already poking gentle fun at his attitude about holding a woman’s purse.

That’s “manly” Earl.. carrying in your mouth? Far too risky, you could lose your false teeth if that purse is as heavy as most womens purses are. Then.. how manly would you look, purse on floor with false teeth attached.

Carry it tucked under your arm, like a football.

Gadzooks, man, think of where she puts it in a stall!

To borrow a phrase: “Just say no”.

He didn’t try under his arm. That would hide a good part of it.

The manly way to hold it is at arm’s length, like it contains something vile and odiferous. Preferably while making a face.

He’s on the right track. If you don’t want to do something, do it really poorly

Earl was being a “man eater.”

Decades ago I saw a stand-up comic on TV who did a whole routine about his invention of purse pliers, for exactly this situation.

Roscoe did it!

My wife doesn’t use a purse. Instead she uses a small backpack or a fanny pack. This way it’s easy for either of us to carry.

You have to be pretty insecure to feel that way

I read someplace that hubby should hold the purse by an upper corner with his arm hanging straight down.

Earl…holding Opal’s purse in your mouth just looks weird and not feminine at all.

This is exactly how my mother humiliated my father, having him hold her purse in stores when she went to the restroom. It was not a mystery.