Pickles by Brian Crane for January 23, 2024

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    stairsteppublishing  10 months ago

    If you don’t know the question, ask it. That makes a lot of sense? Not.

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    Ratkin Premium Member 10 months ago

    Yogi Berra probably said that.

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    Concretionist  10 months ago

    This is part of a long-term plan. If you reliably do something almost right, you may be given some other task. Or none.

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    eromlig  10 months ago

    The art is in doing the chores so poorly you won’t be asked to do them again.

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    cracker65  10 months ago

    And she wonders why he won’t help her.

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    fjblume2000  10 months ago

    Is she back to her old ways?

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    Uncle Kenny  10 months ago

    I fold the laundry, but Spouse puts it away for the most part. Life is simpler that way.

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    PraiseofFolly  10 months ago

    And as young school children, we were told if we didn’t know how to spell a word, to look it up in the Dictionary. (In this regard, on-line dictionaries today are more helpful in this regard.)

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    MichaelAxelFleming  10 months ago

    “Mom, who gets the last piece of cake?”“The first one who doesn’t ask me for it.”

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    Zykoic  10 months ago

    My wife doesn’t mind me doing my own laundry. Least amount of non scented detergent to get it clean and absolutely no drying sheets. Mostly I wear cotton clothes. Folding is optional.

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    iggyman  10 months ago

    Come again?!

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    ilikai  10 months ago

    typical female logic.

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    Shirl Summ Premium Member 10 months ago

    I seriously had a job like that – state government. Here’s your chair, if you have any questions just ask. ZERO training.

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    basspro  10 months ago

    No problem Opal, next time do it yourself.

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    Frank Salem Premium Member 10 months ago

    Yeah, that’s my wife’s logic.

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    jagedlo  10 months ago

    which applies to a lot of different areas of Earl’s life…

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    [Traveler] Premium Member 10 months ago

    He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know

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    Doug K  10 months ago

    I’ve folded the laundry. Now, would you like me to put them away? Or do you want them put away right?

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    NaryGancy  10 months ago

    There’s an old saying: If you have a dog that knows how to play checkers you don’t criticize his game.

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    6foot6  10 months ago

    she was a teacher wasn’t she. I only say this because I had a lot of teachers say this exact thing while I was in school.

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    ANIMAL  10 months ago

    ok…… ok……. I got it

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    Ol' me  10 months ago

    The other day I moved the wet laundry from the washer to the dryer and started it up. Thought I was being helpful, but I got a lecture about doing it at the wrong time of day.

    That pretty much ensures I’m not going to try to be helpful again.

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    JudithStocker Premium Member 10 months ago

    It’s a nice scheme of Earl’s to act stupid about the job of doing the laundry. Don’t know where anything goes and, naturally, Opal will do it for him. It’s a great way to get out of doing any work! I’m sure a lot of people have done this.

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    GATORx81  10 months ago

    Didn’t Yogi Berra say that?

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    ladykat  10 months ago

    How can he ask it if the doesn’t know it. Appreciate the gesture, Opal.

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    tremaine53  10 months ago

    Opal’s the kind of gal who— when she doesn’t know what to say— she says it anyway.

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    ragsarooni  10 months ago

    Now we know definitively why earl is like he is…..

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    IndyW  10 months ago

    That’s always the issue. Try to help out and still get criticized for how you did it. If you don’t help out, you get criticized for not doing it. My world.

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    Slowly, he turned...  10 months ago

    This makes sense to me, I have been a teacher for many years and I get a lot of questions where the student doesn’t know the question. It really slows down the class…

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    w16521  10 months ago

    Opal ’s talking in tongues.

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    Zebrastripes  10 months ago

    Alrighty then, Opal! Whatever you say! ☺️☺️

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    Mike Baldwin creator 10 months ago

    Sounds good dear.

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    wildlandwaters  10 months ago

    Ummm… okay… I guess??

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  10 months ago

    If the answer is 42, what is the question?

    (For a LOT of questions, what all questions have 42 for an answer?)

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    anomalous4  10 months ago

    This made me think of a class I took in college. The prof was running it as an independent study, & I was floundering. He said, “If you don’t understand, ask questions.” I said, “That’s the problem – I don’t understand enough to be able to ask questions!”

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    kathleenhicks62  10 months ago

    She will have so many questions thrown at her she will tape his mouth shut.

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    zeexenon  10 months ago

    Not unlike my college years.

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    Natarose  10 months ago

    Or, Opal, you could just be grateful that he folded them in the first place.

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    cactusbob333  10 months ago

    When you come to a fork in the road, pick it up.

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    vonskippy  10 months ago

    Is this just about the concept that ALL men can’t do basic household tasks – or is Earl just stupid (or pre-dementia) that after 70+ years of living he couldn’t recognize the difference between dish towels and hand towels?

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    Waddling Eagle  10 months ago

    Constant criticism is a great way to get him to stop doing things around the house. Go with the flow; he will eventually learn.

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    Linda Schweiner Premium Member 10 months ago

    My mother always said, “If you want help, lower your standards.” She was right and it works! Lots of little preferences are not important at all.

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    Saddenedby Premium Member 10 months ago

    that’s what I have been doing ALL my life. asking the questions that never occur to me. it saves on “small” unnecessary talk

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    baktoo  10 months ago

    I wash, dry and fold my own clothes. Wife doesn’t touch them. If her clothes are still in the dryer, I put them on top of the dryer, dry my clothes, and then put hers back in the dryer for her to finish later. Don’t get in trouble that way. And about half the time I do the towels. But I know where they go. And the last ones to get washed go underneath the rest.

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    kraftjeff  10 months ago

    Oh… how many times has my wife said that…. I lost count.

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    Moonkey Premium Member 10 months ago

    If he ever used a dishtowel or a hand towel he would know where they go.

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