Pickles by Brian Crane for October 12, 2022

Opal’s not mad. Just has a touch of a mean streak in her.

How long before Earl catches on to the deception?

She probably missed her calling because the clock was two hours off.

Schadenfreude up close and personal

Bwa ha ha ha!

Not so fun, Opal… Forgetting to eat or drink (or that you’ve already done) is one of the first signs of dementia.

It’s a good thing Earl doesn’t have a watch or a phone, or watch TV.

Last panel says it all!

Opal can turn a flowering plant into a decorative plant with only a watering can.

Yep. Mad Scientist potential Right There!

Specifically, Opal should have been a Psychologist. She could have designed a suitable Skinner Box to have Earl properly conditioned long ago.

I would not want to be married to someone like Opal.

Unless she reset the clocks back today, it will be the regular time if she puts them ahead tomorrow.

I don’t know about ‘mad scientist’, but some kind of sadist, certainly.

I’m just waiting to see if Opal gets paid back for all this stuff!

What happened when he turned the TV on at 6 to watch the local news? Rascoe does not demand dinner at a certain time? Why is it dark at 5:30 in Oct?

Will this effect the time he takes his meds?

I did something like that at a boring training seminar at work. The speaker promised to have us out by a specific time and they would be watching the clock for us. At break I bounced it ahead an hour. Later that afternoon we were out early!

Could be, those walks Earl enjoys, take him by Dennys.

My father had every clock synchronized to the second to be correct, we hated hurricane season when the power would go out then everything had to be reset

She’s already MAD…….. so she’s halfway THERE.!!

Hilarious! That’s agood idea!

Fix dinner?? She means put a dinner in the microwave for four minutes, stir, microwave 2 minutes?

She DOES amuse herself, playing sneaky tricks on Earl!

If he depends on her to feed him, then he deserves what he gets. I eat when I get hungry unless my wife cooks something sooner.

My father set all our clocks ahead 5 minutes … so we wouldn’t be late for things. (didn’t figure that out for years)

They must not have too much in the way of medications. I have different ones that have tobe taken with food, or without, at certain times of day.

It’s okay to just dabble and see if you want to go full mad scientist.

I hate cooking dinner at 8 pm. Then I’m stuck in the kitchen doing dishes at 9 pm….noooooooo

Tomorrow he gets taller.

She is very mean to him :-(

Hope Earl catches on soon. For me 8 p.m. is too late for dinner.

She must be the only person who thinks Opal missed it.