Pickles by Brian Crane for January 17, 2025

I can and do do that all the time. It annoys people a lot.

I can lose a sock in the dryer and it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t match anything.

Looks like she burned you good.

Off with ’er head

careful, or she’ll get you

…and your little dog too!

The secret is to have several drawers of socks. Then there’s always extras.

Maybe he needs new glasses…

She understands everything he wants to know about ‘sox’. But he’s afraid to ask.

It is mystical how they do that.

Somehow I don’t see Earl’s socks coming in pairs.

Fortunately, I’m just built short enough to get practically inside the dryer to retrieve socks of mine that would’ve gone “missing” on my laundry pile. They seem to hide underneath the inside of the door and in the back under some laundry.

The old expression is "If they had teeth they would have bit you!

Years ago I shared a lab with such a woman. Neither of us was all to neat. Looking at a messy bench full of tools, stuff, and more, I would just say “Mary where is the 13mm wrench?” and she would walk over and pick it up.

Is he BLIND..???

One of my minor superpowers: I never lose socks in the laundry; not even my wife’s socks.

I laughed out loud when I saw a cartoon that showed astronauts on the moon looking at a huge pile of socks in front of them and they were saying “Huston, we’ve finally found where all the missing socks go”

“You only had a ‘man-look’.” is so ingrained in our society that here we have a comic about it. Yet, since I’ve been married, there have been about an equal number of times my wife can’t find something that I do in about three seconds. If you want to see sparks come out of a woman’s ears, say: “You only had a ‘lady-look’.”

What else does Earl store in his sock drawer? Seriously, my sock drawer is overfilled with…socks.

Bubble, bubble, toil & trouble…

Pickles frequently reminds me that I’m not alone.

You tell ‘er earl‼️

Every year or two, I throw out all my socks and buy a new dozen – all black. If one disappears, I never notice. And I never need to match them up.

My wife also has this power.

I always tell my husband to do an APB look.

Sadly, making a singular into a plural is difficult for aged brains that now look like Swiss cheese.

It’s the opposite in my casa. My wife is the one who can never find things and gets annoyed when after she’s spent an inordinate amount of time searching, I walk over and pick up the item ( which usually is hiding in plain sight ) and say, “Is this what you were looking for?” … The looks she gives me!

I translated for her my granny’s favorite expression, “If t’were a dog, it would hae bit ye!” – Si eso fuera un perro ¡te habría mordido!

In “Halloweentown 2: Kalabar’s Revenge,” it’s explained that lost items — especially lost socks — from both the mortal world and Halloweentown, end up in the front yard of the official junk-magnet of the universe, Gort, who then refuses to part with them.

Nothing scares most people more than Voodoo. Look out Earl lol