Pickles by Brian Crane for April 22, 2011

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    EarlWash  over 13 years ago

    She’s going to check your underwear next, Earl

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    Llewellenbruce  over 13 years ago

    Can’t win for losing can you Earl?

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Well, at least now he’s got a 50-50 chance of getting it right.

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    kreole  over 13 years ago

    In the south where I live, wives ball socks up for their husbands in pairs…..which means they always match and are right-side out. It’s just something that southern women do out of love and caring. Earl must live up north…

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    kearleybe  over 13 years ago

    @kreole, I now live in the South, but grew up in the North where my mother always matched our socks for us and I do so also..

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    wicky  over 13 years ago

    Earl is a yankee!!!?

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    I'll fly away  over 13 years ago

    My mom also balled matching socks. I just fold over the tops. And yes, only a wife could tell one was inside-out.

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    pschearer Premium Member over 13 years ago

    [rimshot]

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    gjsjr41  over 13 years ago

    kreole, My mom always balled up our socks when we were young. We were never further south than southern Michigan.

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    jtviper7  over 13 years ago

    My mom folded socks in pairs, she told me balling them up stretched the elastic…

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    JanLC  over 13 years ago

    I still match pairs and fold them together. Saves searching later. Of course, my husband has chosen Earl’s solution - he only has one style and color of socks. I still pair them for him.

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    kab2rb  over 13 years ago

    I must be the exception here I don’t do any of this. My hubby wears only white with commy sole shoes. My causual trouser socks I try to keep the same. With pt work knee highs all look the same.

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    Elaine Rosco Premium Member over 13 years ago

    To bad Earl and Opal don’t have a life!….lol

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    furryoldguyjeans  over 13 years ago

    If Opal didn’t have something to complain about, she’d have to find it. She is not happy when she can’t find fault with Earl, and Earl isn’t happy unless he is getting an earful from Opal.

    The joys of a long-term marriage.

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    FlacaLore1  over 13 years ago

    I always balled my socks as my mom did for me as well. When I got married and I did that for my husband, he said that he didn’t like them like that just folded… He now does his own laundry, he is far more complicated that I thought :-)

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    lin4869  over 13 years ago

    Earl and Opal have a lovely life. They’ve grown older together, enjoy their family and are comfortable with each other.

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    alittlebirdie  over 13 years ago

    FlacaLore1, when I got married, I also did things for my husband and nothing was ever right. He wanted his shirts hung in the closet by “color”, his underwear folded a specific way and like your husband, he ended up doing his own laundry. Laundry wasn’t the only thing he ended up doing himself when he complained.

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    wiatr  over 13 years ago

    Lived all my life in Pennsylvania and my mother always balled my socks too. When I started doing my own laundry I quit that since it seemed to ruin the elastic. OTOH, I buy all my socks the same style and colours so I can grab any two in the drawer and have a matched set.

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