Pickles by Brian Crane for April 02, 2021

It’s like Flo and Andy across the pond (though Andy wouldn’t give Flo £3.61).

Spouse owns an iron, but it hasn’t been unlimbered for use in more than a decade, I think. Certainly the walk in closet where the board lives has filled to the point where you cannot get the door open, much less lower the board.

Give me a basket of laundry to iron, and you will get a Blank Stare.

That’s old school. Put the dryer on high heat and shake

It looks like Opal has made a fist with her right hand. She’s looking up.

Is she praying for strength to resist hitting Earl?

… or permission to hit him?

Who irons clothes these days? Also – I see a sock in the basket. Why would anyone ever iron socks?

It’s so ironic!

I’m not familiar with that one.

I’ve ironed one item since 2009. A shirt for a friend’s wedding. Wouldn’t have bothered if it were my wedding.

Make sure he does a good job on the socks and underwear!

Back before permanent press I / we, the kids, were responsible for the neatness of our personal clothing. Wash and wear arrived and now I only remember that you were supposed to make the shirt flat. I have no idea how we were supposed to do sleeves. YEA permanent press.

Only five, Earl?

In our younger days that is how I knew a holiday was coming…the ironing board was out. Nowadays we’re so wrinkled our clothes look ironed even if not.

“And beside ironing is your job” Famous last words!

Let’s just cut to the chase and give me the 5 spot already.

Who irons socks? And Opal, take the fiver; it’s as close to getting Earl to work as you’re going to get.

Credit Earl for not ironing the actual BASKET.

Quick squint at the size of the basket..could get the job done in a slow half hour. minimum wage $15/hr..he’s shorting her..

Silly. What garment needs ironing these days?

Fun Fact… a Panda neatens his fur with a licky-lick. Completely organic, with no effect on the environment. That’s better than going to a laundromat, with a fistful of quarters.

Since more than a year of covid, if I even wear a shirt that needs to be hung to dry my wife hangs me out also.

I’ve never ironed, and I never shall..

We have a rule, if a piece of clothing comes out of the dryer and needs to be ironed, it gets donated or thrown away.

I use the iron to hem pantlegs, with that iron-on tape.

Who irons socks?

Time to channel Howard Borden.

Cannot be an “old” proverb. An old one would have said, … … I’ll give you a “penny” or, perhaps, a “farthing” (with the ‘h’ in it).

Uh… there is a term for people who iron socks and bed sheets.

I love to iron and listen to the radio! Well, that was way back then when EVERYTHING HAD to be ironed. Today….forget it!

Funny one today

Do it, ruin it, she’ll never ask again

I have one odd shirt that needs a bit of ironing after laundering. The buttonhole placket curls up, which makes it a challenge to button. Rather than dig the ironing board out from its hidey-hole, I just put a towel on the kitchen counter. It takes longer for the iron to heat up than it does to straighten out the shirt.

I iron my clothes, even the perma press ones. They just look neater. My husband irons his own clothes and starches the heck out of his Wranglers. Between him and George Strait, the starch company has made millions. No, I don’t iron socks, sheets, sweats, jammies or tshirts.

I don’t iron socks……..no sane person does.

Reminds me of an old fish proverb, that also sounds fishy.

I do the laundry at our house but I no not iron!

What I’ve never figured out – and she has no good answer for it – is that while my wife has two perfectly good ironing boards, ( 1 standard size and 1 small ), she insists on ironing whatever needs be done on top of the bed!

She has a right to her expectations but his right is that she must wait for him to say “Yes”.

I have a hand-held steamer that does the job most of the time, but sometimes I need a good old-fashioned iron. At least six months out of the year in Texas, I have to wear cotton or linen, because polyester doesn’t breathe. There are no-iron cotton and linen clothes, but they’re horrendously expensive (i.e., $89 for a woman’s blouse), unless you can find them used. If anyone ever figures out how to make a no-wrinkle fabric that is reasonably priced, and breathes like cotton and linen, I’ll throw away my iron.

Opal! Does Earl look in any way like Iron Man?

My wife still irons all of my pants and shirts. They are wash& wear. I told her not to iron them as I no longer work or go out much and if people don’t like what I look like that’s their problem.

My Mom used to iron my levis, my wife didn’t mind my levis being iron as long as I ironed them. I have worn my levis unironed for a very long time now.

I had that chore as a kid, too…