Pickles by Brian Crane for December 09, 2021

What foe is that?

Well done

When I was a kid my grandmother used to discreetly tuck a bill into the palm of my hand and say to me, “Don’t tell your mother.” So I would keep my mouth shut.

Life is uncertain. Eat your chocolate (or ice cream) FIRST!

Earl to Nelson: “I guess now that I probably should finish that for you.”

Or foes!

It’s the grandparent’s job to load the grandchildren up with sugar and send them home.

Ice cream for dinner?

Well if Ice Cream is part of the meal who cares about the order of pie hole filling ;-)

If she really wanted to make a point, she should have taken the ice cream away…

Willem da foe.

Can’t believe he ratted him OUT..!!

That’s my dad! LOL Loved when he’d tell us to get in the back of his pickup and run to Twin Kiss. For an extra .50 you could take home the glass mug your root beer float came in. Great memories.

A common foe. Hahahaha! I love it.

Where do The Pickles live? I feel like it’s up North and would be very cold by now?

Got that right

We live 6 hours away, but my grandson’s other Grandma takes on the lion’s share of daycare/babysitting for him, God bless her. However, they have a common foe, as she has Faux News on all day long unfortunately. And now the other Grandpa has Covid, yikes.

Ha!

Faux pho foe.

My oldest grandson and my daughter lived with me off and on when he was growing up. I can’t even recall the number of times I’ve said the same thing to him – or something similar.

Ironically, now that he has a small daughter of his own, he complains to me that his mom and her granddaughter are conspiring against him. lol

Dinner?

That punch line comes courtesy of Sam Levenson some 50 to 60 years ago. Still true today obviously.

Sadly, people will, most likely, walk away from today’s strip, with the wrong lesson. The REAL lesson is that this cross generational relationship and its “rivalry” with the one in between, is essential to kids, but is rapidly vanishing.

This joke originated with Bill Cosby albeit he used “grandkids and grandparents” instead of “Grampas and grandsons” and “enemy” instead of “foe.” Must be throwback Thursday in the comics.

So where are the fee, fie and fum?

Grandparents job is to spoil grandkids.

Sometimes we have desert first.

New Clean Plate Policy at her house!

What I told my beloved daughter-in-law:

“My job is to enjoy them. Your job is to turn them into something similar to humans. And you are doing an amazingly good job considering the fact my son is their father.”

I try to respect my daughter’s requests for food for her child, but as the child gets older, we will have some ice cream meals. It’s essential, and my daughter always enjoyed hers!

Also the same mentality

The faux kind…