Pickles by Brian Crane for May 22, 2024

I couldn’t live your life, Earl.

Can he use the couch next door?

Now Earl knows how the homeless feel.

There’s a definite advantage to being single.

When our cleaning lady comes I drive to the park and go running.

I have actually gone to sit in the car and read on a (very) few occasions. It doesn’t work very well, but it does work a little for a little while.

So take the bloomin’ comforter off.

Go to the park, instead! Just don’t bring your wallet.

Earl needs a hammock.

Take the keys and just drive away, Opal won’t even miss you!

Just get a hotel room and leave the cell phone at home.

Ah, Lodgings, by Studebaker! (I do not think he overbought a new car!

Good times there are now forgotten? (Is Opal at all tempted to join him?)

In E:arl’s place, I’d say her to go back to her mom.

Do they only have one bedroom? Earl could nap in a guest room.

Earl seems to be taking a back seat to a lot of Opal’s decisions.

Tell her you’re going to a hotel. There goes her monthly yarn money.

I guess Charlotte the harlot has a room I can rent for a couple hours, so I can take a nap.

“Don’t mind me. I’ll be at the motel with my girlfriend.”

Jackie Gleason, “To the moon, Alice”.

Earl needs a den of his own!

If he leaves the car door open with his feet sticking out, Opal will be afraid she’ll be embarrassed when the ladies visit. Then maybe she’ll tell him to lie on the bed anyway.

Time for Earl to tell Opal to shove it.

go to your grandsons’ house.

sigh, good grief Opal… what’s next, changing the seats in the car to a more fancy look?

He should stand up to her, she’s ridiculous!

She can be an old bitty sometimes.

Sure glad I am not married to tyrant like her.

People wonder why I never got married……LOL

Ralph Kramden’s spirit will haunt your nap dreams Earl….. I’m the King of the Castle!

Make sure you leave the windows open. It’s going to be a warm day.

Earl should go with his castaway living hammock.

Those lounge chairs at beach resorts look really comfy, Earl. Time for a road trip.

It’s high time to cut Opal loose….

GRRRRR! Earl, take a stand, it’s your bed too. Use it.

Send the paramedics to help me out if I’m not back for dinner.

Attaboy Earl…never be deterred!

I wonder how closely they resemble Brian’s actual parents.

Earl needs a man cave.

Be sure to stick your feet out the window to impress those ladies .

I feel for you, Earl!

She might let him go under the new comforter lol

“In the closed garage with the engine running.”

And be sure to float to the car so you don’t leave any marks on the carpet.

Pitch a tent in the back or front yard and blow up the air mattress, that should work.

Earl: “I’ll be napping somewhere… with a new wife.”

That Studebaker got that much room?

I have to know, Earl—was there any woman other than Opal you could have married?

She has turned him into a miserable, useless, helpless bloke. The irony is that he probably doesn’t even realize it.

My dad used their travel trailer in the back yard. Newspaper, six pack, and a pile of Polka 8-tracks.

Thought we’d seen Earl in a hammock in the back yard before.

At this point, Opal should clue in.

Opal might as well get a hotel room for the group get togethers. Less hassle. Earl almost always gets in the way at the last minute. Let him make his own lunch for a change.

Change into pajamas??? I never got out of them!

Give Opal time and even that will be ruined.

No patience! His house, too, not her doll house; and his bed. Just take that comforter off the bed and stretch out, Earl.

I can vaguely remember better uses for the back seat. (wink-wink)

It’s your house that you paid for. Sleep where you like, Earl. if she doesn’t want the comforter to get mussed, she can move it. You warned her.