Pickles by Brian Crane for July 31, 2013

Curmudgeon’s live forever (or so it seems).

Don’t let her con you Earl. Keep your guard up. Those women can be cagey sometimes.

Maybe you can get Nelson to paint the room Opal.He’d probably do a better job anyway.

Logical. Flawlessly logical.Besides, Opal just wants the house to be worth something when he dies and she sells it.

I know I’m still alive…and I’m not gonna repaint our damn bedroom, either!

Give it up, Earl — get it painted just the way she wants it. Just take her by the hand, get on down to Lowes and pick out the paint! Make it fun — you’ll be the winner when this is over …

Relax, Earl, your life will last as long as the cartoonist’s does… or his will to draw daily anyway.

Opal, if you want the room painted, do it yourself!

I’m with Earl on this one too. Isn’t the plan for that room to go in and close your eyes anyhow?

Opal, if you want it done – and done right, do it yourself.

Opal should hire a handsome young handyman. That should get him started…

Geezus christ Opal just get out the yellow pages. Even if you could badger Earl into doing it he’d do a crap job at best.

And the reason Opal can’t repaint the damn room herself is….???

sounds like my dad who does not like anything changed lol

They’ll both live forever because ♫♪ Only the good die young ♫♪.

Earl just doesn’t want his epitaph to be “He was a nice guy, he painted bathrooms!”

Earl and I think alike.

IF Earl gives in and does it, he will foul it up so bad that she will have to get someone to fix it anyway. Why not skip the messy part to begin with?

I’m dead now and don’t give a crap

waitasecond: repaint it? it’s already painted. duh. why paint it again?

Move off the paint job, getting old.Where is Roscoe?

“Don’t know, Don’t care, Go away”

LOL xxx

Here’s how you spell Earl: L-A-Z-Y.

It is age-ist to assume that an older person is so fragile. How intolerant of you.

@DampwaffleI agree with you… what’s wrong with her two hands…. My wife does the same thing… comes up with projects but doesn’t want to put any effort in to do them…After 30+ years I’ve quit doing her projects due to that… If she want’s it done then she can get off her lazy butt and do it herself. All she ever normally does is play with facebook all day long… useless for anything else.

“I don’t care about the color but because I love you deeply, my dearest Opal, I shall get right to the task you desire.”