Pickles by Brian Crane for August 18, 2023

Nelson us older folk aren’t that polite. Go wash your hands.

Opal speechless, a rare thing indeed

Roscoe laughs!

Like everything else, when you get older you’ll learn the reasons why to do things grownups tell you.

Didn’t expected that didn’t you Opal….

He’s been petting Roscoe. Wash hands!

Touché!

I love how Roscoe laughed at Nelson’s remark.

Dirty hands gives your food more flavor.

if she sat down with dirty hands after fixin’ dinner, I would wonder what’s for dinner

Great answer Nelson, what a smart boy!

One peek at the microbial world, changed my mind forever.

What…no song for Nelson, Opal?

Good answer!

Love Roscoe’s face in the last panel – LOL

I do believe that the " precious " Roscoe is laughing in the last panel : )

My mother often told us “You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die.” For those who don’t know, a peck is either a quick smoochie or one quarter of a bushel.

ba dum tss

Touché

Roscoe REWLS. Best character in the strip!!!

Zing!

Sometimes Nelson is too big for his breeches.

Somehow….. I DOUBT that

Good one, Nelson!

That really sounds like something my oldest grandson would have said at that age.

Nelson reminds me so much of him when he was growing up and he and his mother were living with me. Now he’s a parent himself, with a 6-year-old daughter. Tempus fugit!

Nelson needs to get some new pals…lol

Ouch. He burned her to a crackly crunch!

Kids…….

Score one for Nelson.

He is not trying to raise her so his silence would be appropriate. She IS trying to raise him so her speech would be appropriate.

Tech them up in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it.

Roscoe doing a perfect Goofy impression.

To everything there is a time and a season.

Many of us would’ve gotten a slap on the mouth for saying that.

Roscoe liked that one!

In response to, “What would you say if I sat down to eat with dirty hands?” I would’ve said, “Pass the yams”. But then, I was a problem child.

The rule in my house is…Whether hands look dirty or not, they will be washed before eating.

my parents would have just figured whatever was in the dirt would help strengthen our immune systems.

I enjoyed it too, Roscoe.

I still have to ask friends to wash their hands. What’s the aversion to soap and water????

If I knew Earl’s actual voice, I would say that the words coming out of Nelson’s mouth sounded exactly like Earl’s voice.