Pickles by Brian Crane for October 22, 2009

lol… no good deed goes unpunished.

Good ole Earl, taking credit where none is due. All for the joy of irritating Opal.

That’s what he just said, Opal! Or didn’t you want to cross it in the first place? Guess you found your way back, though.

You da man, Earl !

Looks like Earl’s gonna sleep on the couch tonight.

And that’s a bad thing? He can sleep on the couch and fantasize about Blondie without interuption from Opal.

Earl had a senior community movement.

That’s not a bad thought BC.

Sleep on the couch for helping her across the street. She’d be out on her ear.

Oh my!

Thousands of high schools have been making volunteering mandatory for some years now. No joke! If you don’t volunteer up to school district standards, you can’t graduate!

“Voluntary” my eye! And now many colleges are starting it. Once an entire generation has been propagandized in school, then they can start making it mandatory for the rest of us. Imagine getting something like your jury duty summons but for carrying bedpans or picking up trash by the road. Can’t happen? Twenty years ago nobody would have believed there could be “mandatory volunteering” as a graduation requirement.