Pickles by Brian Crane for January 16, 2025

Hilarious but Amazing logic?

I can look for something in the fridge 3 times and give up. Next time I open the door, it’s right there in plain sight! Way too often.

this one was stupid 16 years ago

I was expecting her to say “I don’t always know where things are because you never put them back in the same place”

That happens in our house all the time. I ask, “Where’s the tiny cutting board?” He answers, “I put it where you always keep it: on the third shelf.” I say, “That’s not where I keep it.” He says, “Oh really, when did you stop storing it there?” “Three years ago, dear.” Can you hear me rolling my eyes.

I get that too. The GF packs the fridge’s freezer section to where it becomes an avalanche hazard when it’s opened, a tetris puzzle to close it.

Might be time to clean out the fridge!

Earl knows there’s nothing better than fresh plop.

My father somehow knew where every tool and every size nut and bolt in his large cache was. It was frustrating to me when I searched for stuff. I hated asking him, even after searching fruitlessly for a long time. He would impatiently say, “It’s in the garage (or basement)” and my heart would sink. He would go right to whatever it was, shaking his head and grumbling at my ‘stupidity’. But I still miss him.

My wife used to say “don’t look for things as a man, think as a woman and you will find it”. How the heck is a man supposed to think like a woman?

Even as adults(by age) some still need to have their hand held and be led ;-)

So this is a universal problem with men, which means it is at the dna level apparently.

When food starts falling out of the fridge, it’s time to clean it.

Brian Crane’s bugged my house!

I’ve had to replace my kitchen shears and mini flashlight several times. Where’d they go – no one knows!

My wife has very specific locations to put our cookware, etc. But then she changes them every 3 or 4 months. AARRRGGHH.

HATE when THAT happens………….

Am I Earl????

He’s “guy looking”.

When I used to teach manufacturing classes, one of the key principles was “point of use storage”.

Finding things around the house was so easy before my wife retired. Every so often, she decides to move things around. It’s especially frustrating since I’m the one doing the cooking.

Since I live alone, it’s my fault if I can’t find what I’m looking for!

OK, Brian Crane, I don’t know how you managed to install that hidden camera in my kitchen, but I’m now officially on a find and destroy mission!!!!

I tell my wife I can find something, she says you just need to move things. I start unloading the shelves and setting them on the counter until she gets frustrated with that and finds it for me.

PLOP…….

Sometimes food lands at my feet. Sometimes in my mouth.

Put too much stuff in the frig, it stops working and everything spoils

There’s this game along with this idea, called “Kim’s Game” which is supposed to teach observation skills to reconn and scouting type people. Snipers, police, anyone who needs a good eye. You open a junk drawer, let someone look at it for a short time, then close the drawer and have them describe the drawer. Not exactly what was IN it, but an actual description of the drawer. "In the bottom left hand corner is a claw hammer, it goes up at a 45 degree angle towards the center of the drawer, with the head in the corner, the claw curled up. The handle is blue, there is rust on the head. Across the handle, about halfway up is Ticonderoga #2 pencil, unsharpened, making an X with the handle….(and so on).

The game is called Kim’s Game because it was in the Rudyard Kipling book “Kim” and they were using it as a tool to teach Kim to be a spy. It’s a good book, but written in an older style some might find difficult. Kim was an orphaned street kid, father was Irishman, a British soldier, his mother was Indian. Because of his street smarts and Irish father the British think that Kim will make an excellent spy because he can “move in both worlds”.

My wife looks like my work bench and cabinets in MY garage and wants to rearrange or throw stuff away. I say, “don’t touch a thing, I know where everything I use is so hands off”. Then she uses one of my tools and puts it away where I can’t find it.

Yep, our icebox inside is like a ginga tower of tupperware.

Time to get rid of grandma’s fruitcake from 1948.

This usually happens to me when I open the freezer door, sometimes hitting my foot.

Da Brie?

Vice versa for me. Wifey has no system. Things go where she drops them.

My hubby empties the dishwasher, and will usually just put something on the counter if he doesn’t know where it goes. Although lately, I’ve had to search for the brownie pan, even though I’ve told him multiple times where it goes…

I hate when that happens…and I live alone.

Being a perfectionist can sometimes really be a pain in the behind. But, being so organized does have its advantages: I know where everything is.

Due to my nature, I just love to organize and clean.

Male pattern blindness. In 30 years I have not figured out if it is laziness or what. This goes along with walking past stuff on the steps that belongs to him that should go up.

If my wife does not see something in the front of the refrigerator or in the front of the pantry shelves, she will ask me to find it for her. If it is there, I can normally find it.