Pickles by Brian Crane for December 27, 2023

Earl I’m glad you understand, Opal’s needs for you to scram now and then.

And sometimes Earl needs her absence. So, it all works out.

“The house to herself” would have been a better answer.

His absence is his presents (sic).

“….and I do it well.”

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

It is a personalized service.

Another day when he used the fine linen table napkins to shine his shoes?

Sometimes? You mean… some months.

Somehow the phrase “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” doesn’t apply to Opal…

I know a couple like that

You’re a good man, Earl.

There was an elderly woman who worked at a local convenience store for years and years, well into her 90s. She said she continued working so she could get away from her clingy husband for a time every day. Heck of a way to spend your “golden years”.

“Something only I can provide” is the catch phrase of Melvin from Working Daze.

Earl has evolved into a human/ homing pigeon hybrid.

OMG…… so true….. SO true

I was a docent at our local museum for many years, and one morning I was getting ready for an upcoming tour, when one of the other docents stormed in, muttering under her breath and shaking her head. I asked what was wrong, and she slammed her keys and purse into her locker, and said, with a HUGE exasperated sigh: “I never realized how little my husband and I have in common until he retired!”

Absence makes the heart grow fonder…

Good boy, Earl.

Earl, Opal is lucky to have you!

so, she needs time without him or she might clobber him.

Way to go Earl……

The poor man has been thoroughly brainwashed. What they don’t realize is that if you turn your husband into an idiot, you are then doomed to live with an idiot.

We both, as couples, need some private or quiet time. I don’t object, and in fact encourage it. Stuck together all day, everyday, will have create conflicts. We encourage each other to get out and do something without having to do it together all the time.

The secret to a long and mostly happy marriage.

You’re giving her quality alone time. Good on you, Earl!

Amen. After almost 40 years of hubby being out to sea or traveling for his company most of the time, he retired suddenly. Having him home 24/7 nearly wrecked our marriage so he now has a wood shop out back and he spends most of his day out there, thank you Lord.

reminds me of a favorite quote… “Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it’s to serve as a bad example”― Carroll Bryant

Going home too early could lead to a ‘beheading at home’.

You want to go see the movie “Oppenheimer?”

My second wife did not like my IT consulting business run out of our house. She was an old-school believer that a man’s place is in the office. :)

When someone comes to visit you, you might thank them for blessing you with their presence. Earl is blessing Opal with his absence.

I have had those instructions before.

I remember my Mother saying that when my Father went on his yearly ………… Fishing trip ….. that it was “HER” vacation as well ….. :)

We all need space

The gift that keeps on giving.

Happy wife, happy life?