Pickles by Brian Crane for September 22, 2023

Opal’s cooking isn’t doing your health any favors

Young people know how to get out of that position.

Roscoe is laughing again. He has a great sense of humor.

The recliner became a decliner.

There’s a reason I very seldom recline my recliner. This isn’t it, though. It’s placed so as to allow passage into the room and if I want to recline it, I have to move it out into the walking path, which means that after I relax in it, I have to get up and shove it back, thereby canceling quite a bit of the relaxation.

I have one, I just don’t like it

You can’t fight fate.

Whenever I’m out and about, I wonder if my recliner is thinking about me, too!

Never argue with the universe…

Mine broke too! I got out without it but can’t get back in.

I’ve had the handle break on me too. Fortunately, I was young enough to still get back out, but with some effort.

“Howdy-do”? At my home that gets added to the “honey-do” list.

The handle broke from overuse!

Yet again, they have hidden cameras in my house. I thought I got them all the last time.

Stay put! Repairing that recliner lever would be TOO useful!!

Crediting “the universe” for your laziness, Earl?

Roscoe is just precious in todays cartoon : )

Had that happen with our old recliner. We subsequently replaced that chair. Now there’s a spare handle in the drawer.

My mother had one of those electric recliners that reclined at the push of a button. She could always get it to just the right position and then get it back to the seated position without much effort, which was good at her age (I think she was about 85 when we bought it). Everything was fine until we had a power outage while she was reclining. She tried to get it to sit up the way you would with a normal recliner, by pushing down with your legs. Didn’t work. She was stuck in that chair until the power came back on. Fortuntely, it was in a position where she could sleep without too much discomfort because the power didn’t come back on until 3 in the morning.

It did seem like it was a sign.

Of course, he might have also read the sign wrong.

Who else noticed that the lever should be pointing back when the chair is reclined?

The universe is telling Earl to either get an electric recliner or lose some weight. I don’t have any electric recliners, but the newest one I have not only reclines, but is on a swivel base. Definitely gets my cat’s attention if I move in a complete circle.

Not so FAST.!!!!

Today’s theme: If Garfield was a human…

Roscoe REWLS. Best character in the strip.

Maybe the universe wants the chair fixed.

Well either that Earl, or you @$$ is so fat that the chair couldn’t take the stress.

That be my guess Earl

when the universe speaks – it’s a great excuse – makes as much logical sense as 90 percent of the headlines of what people are doing and WHY they are doing it. earl is just going with the flow, not rocking the boat, taking the ez way out, letting the chips fall where they may, AND cashing in on some blame game upmanship.

LOL

You should always listen to the Universe Earl.

Everything happens for a reason? God was planning to break the handle? Get a life folks. You are on your own. Nothing in your life is planned. If you don`t believe me, walk out in traffic while blindfolded. Find out if it`s your day to die. Do you believe or not?

I love Roscoe’s laugh in panel four. Priceless.

Earl is a firm believer in that time-worn phrase: “If life gives you lemons, make a lemon custard pie!” Of course, Opal will have to do the cooking, as usual.

He will only have to do a simple Kip-Up.

A few posters say Roscoe is laughing. It looks more like a yawn to me. His eyes are closed, his mouth is not turned up in a smile, and in frame 1 he is lying down at Earl’s feet. I think Earl woke him up when the handle snapped.

Should the dog call 911 ?

I was in a similar situation awhile back. I have a power recliner and was in a situation where we had a blackout. It was harrowing stuck in my recliner until the power came back on

I spend more time in my recliner than I do anywhere else – including my bed. It’s the only chair, except for the one at the dining table, that I ever use in the house. It even doubles as my office chair – giving true meaning to a laptop computer.

Not good advertising for the recliner industry here today.

The universe isn’t something you want to argue with.

The Roscoe laugh is the best thing about Pickles.

It’s a challenge getting out of a broken one, Earl may need help from some burly firemen

And that is how you can tell that the universe loves you, little children.

You can fix the chair you just broke. That’s useful.

At your age, what about bathroom breaks?

Earl may rue those six cups of coffee he had earlier!

If that happened to me I would consider it a sign from God and relaaxxxxxzzzz!

Always listen to the universe.

But do they know why? Yeah, I don’t know what that means either!