Pickles by Brian Crane for December 02, 2022

Clyde it may not be the batteries. Earl may have forgot to turn his aids back up after leaving the house. Opal had been rambling for some time.

Abe had a wife in his ears also. History records her as being a handful.

He should start singing “Reelin’ in the Ears”.

{eye roll}

They beep in your ear when they’re running down. Of course, I just ignored my left aid beeping while I was listening to Yo Yo Ma on YouTube.

I thought Yo Yo Ma played the cello not a YouTube whatever that instrument is.

Being a cartoon character, as long as he can read the balloons, he doesn’t need to hear.

Too close to home for me. I’m about to edge a toe into the search for hearing aids. Hate the idea but need to man up and get it done. Certainly get enough frequent offers in the mail for the ‘perfect’ model. Don’t know which type I’ll finally select, there are so many, and all claiming to be the best, but we’ll find out.

Eh? I did not know Earl was Canadian! (Don’t mean to offend my Northern friends)!

isn’t this a rerun? Strong déjà vu feeling here…

And the skewed hearing trouble begins so early in life, There are dire warning signs.

I’m reasonably sure the lyric I remember from TRAVELING BAND isn’t ‘747 fallin’ out of the sky, come on let me take you on a midnight ride’.

If it IS, I’ll walk, thank you.

And in Earl’s case, the wife always seems to be in his ears…

Earl is being an ear-wag.

I like having a rechargeable hearing aid (only recently did it officially become a HA). Those little zinc-air batteries are expensive and hard to handle. Weird how the $4000 HA don’t have them and my $150 unit does.

I think this is the way Earl interpreted Abe’s quote. And it’s a good way he did this, too. You have to live with Opal to know this.

Just keep his wife out of his beers.

Two geezers on a bench:

Windy ain’t it?

Naw, it’s Thursday

Me too, wanna get a beer?

two geezers meet.

‘’Howzit going? What’s new?’’

‘’Oh nuthin’ much, got a new hearing aid, she’s a beauty. Works great.’’

‘’Yeah? How much was it?’’

Looks at wrist. ‘’Almost Two O’clock.’’ RimShot

They do???? That’s terrible. I thought the world had gone quiet. Finally. I was kinda liking that.

What?

What? what? Eh! Wadyasay?

Hey Earl, get rechargeable hearing aids like I have.

Wives with great ears would know when to pretend deafness.

Didn’t he say that at Ford’s theater during the crowd’s laughter, on or about April 15, 1865?

Years.

That would explain Earl’s hearing problem.

It’s not the ears on your wife but the wife in your ears.

Wives are in their guy’s ears all the time. Nag, nag nag….