Pickles by Brian Crane for April 20, 2022

darn it, Earl, can’t you do anything right?!

Try ringing it first.

I got out of the house today without my wallet. Because somebody cleaned up the counter where the wallet, keys and phone (on the charger) always are, and put the wallet BEHIND something else. Yes, I should have been more thoughtful. But nope, I’m really not all that thoughtful about habitual behavior: Pick up the stuff that’s in the “put in pockets” pile and put it in the pockets. Then leave.

It’s easer to just dump it out rather than sticking your head in it.

Dork.

Them there fumes must be pretty rotten !

Tim Taylor once did that with lunch on Home Improvement.

How would you like to update your phone?

Now Earl has to pay for Opal’s mistake of being careless with her cell phone.

Just call it.

Now he has to find the cell phone in the trash!

Leave in there for “trash talking”!

After he tears apart that garbage bag, the phone will suddenly ring, and she’ll then realize that it was with her the whole time. Later she’ll blame him for messing up the yard with garbage strewn all about.

Especially since he dumped the garbage in the blue recycle bin too

That would never happen to a young person, The phone is glued to their hand.

GOD…… I hope he washes his hands..!!!!!

I’m always being asked to call my wife’s phone because she can’t remember where she put it. Easier than pawing thru the trash needlessly.

Send Roscoe in for the search

Ewww!

Been there done that but not with my phone. I am thankful for plastic bags or disposable gloves.

I’ve never had to dumpster dive for a phone but I did have to do the trash treasure hunt for a ring that had inadvertently been dropped in the garbage. Miraculously, I was able to find and recover it before the Waste Management truck arrived.

When I was in college I used to crumple up paper before throwing it out, until I threw out a term paper that had taken two weeks to write. After finding it in the dumpster, I changed to folding discarded pages in half. It has “saved” me on a couple of occasions since.

SSDD

I’ve never thrown out my phone with the trash, but I’m pretty sure some silverware disappeared that way

Save a lot of work Earl if you just moved that bin into the kitchen and rolled it out on Garbage day.

I’ve never accidentally thrown out a phone, but I believe a TV remote I had fell into the trash and got thrown out.

You don’t have that problem if you have a phone connected to the wall with a coiled cord. Maybe they should invent something like that for cell phones.

I swear, this is my life, over and over.

Call it. It will be much easier to find.

I remember when my daughter accidentally threw away her retainer at Taco Bell. We had to go through 9 large bags of trash in the garbage corral (very wet from all the soda) before we found it. She never misplaced it again, though.