Pickles by Brian Crane for April 09, 2023

One day Opal is gonna ask you to repeat what she just said. Then what are you gonna do Earl ?

Fast listener = slow learner

Not funny, Earl…

Opal isn’t going to like that remark, Earl.

Haha Haha, that is the funniest comic in a long time!! I have the very same listening skills! Ha ha ha.

You know those “walk-in showers” they advert? I called! They wanted $18,000 for a BASIC and I have to finish the room. I’d get the basic walk-in and a cheap door! Talked them down to $12,000 and threw them out the door!

Having heard the spiel before, he’s jumped ahead. I get lots of books read more quickly when the very familiar background stories are being covered. Just hit the opening sentence and skim the rest.

And Earl’s mouth is faster than his mind – he says things he hasn’t even though of yet.

Sometimes you listener shuts off after a while! That’s why we take breaks!

Whenever I hear an ad say, “Buy now and save!”, I say to myself, “How bout if I don’t buy, and I’ll save even more?” But my favorite ads are the ones that say, “Save up to 50% and more!” It really means nothing at all.

Uh, this is essentially a repeat from a few years ago. Earl told the kid he was a speed listener & that he finished listening to Opal well before she stopped talking.

With all the double-talkers around these days, one has to be a double-listener.

Operators are standing by…

The older I get, the slower I hear.

Priceless! When faced with someone talking like that I go beep…beep…beep. When they ask me what that is I say it is a word trying to get in edgewise.

“Chief, can you repeat what you just said” “Yes Max, what part?” “The part after listen carefully” Maxwell Smart

I use Earl’s method at meetings that begin with a personal check in.

here are my 15 comments/answers in order.

your next 15 comments/questions you’re gonna ask

how do you……….

married for 50 years, nuff said

Tuning her out is what he does!

After 40 years of marriage, I can anticipate most conversations. The other day I did a maintenance thing I always do. I knew she was going to ask if I did the other thing as well. As soon as she said, “Did you…” I said “Yes”. She laughed. A lot of our routine conversations don’t even need words. Just a look.

He’s gonna run as fast as his walker will let him.

Last words he remember her saying was I DO

I’ll have to TRY that

I think in my line of work I deal with people who both talk and listen fast.

Just the facts ma’am -

Anyone who has raised teenagers should learn to listen fast. They can talk very fast!

Actually what Earl means is his nagging wife says the same thing to him over and over, so he doesn’t need to listen.

My Sunday paper begins with a panel that is missing from this online version. It has a smarmy looking guy, gesturing, and saying "TIREDOFEXORBITANTFEES?? HAVEIGOTADEALFORYOU!!!

Pop’s Company often involved auctioneers and I went along to me mesmerized—youtu.be/U_VbwZsYPwY

Call for American—youtu.be/K8wyqIKYqxc

“Tha faster I go, the behinder I get”!!!

Most accomplished!!

WHATAGUY!!

Happy Easter everyone!

My wife accuses me as a fast listener too—she’s right, I’m wrong, and that’s life.

Happy Easter from Pickles, April 24, 2011

https://www.gocomics.com/pickles/2011/04/24

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Just don’t reply while she’s still talking.

I’m a speed-reader and I never get through the tiny letters of side effects on those TV ads.

Probably because she’s always yelling at you.