Pickles by Brian Crane for October 20, 2012

Earl learned something new today.

Earl’s getting a little dingy from hearing Opal’s ding-a-ling.

Reminds me of my SIL and her family. They will sit there and wonder aloud who’s calling until the ringing stops. You can say, “Hey, the phone’s ringing” and hear “Yeah…” but no one picks it up. Then they wonder who it was.

What the deuce is Opal knitting.

How can you mistake that sound, Earl?

Where is the kid?Hasn’t been around in a few days.

Smart boy, he doesn’t like to unload and fold.

That’s our Earl…

Housework is his enemy.

LOL xxx

caller id (put in as scum-filter) is blank, blocked or unavailable. my wife picks it up anyway because “it might be family”. what???? now their telemarketing computer has a live hit on a number, and they drive us nuts for the next 5 years, and she complains because they keep calling…and Do Not Call list is a joke.

out of 58 units here, we’re one of 5 that still have a “land line”.

I have a land line and an answering machine. Family knows they better say something if they want to talk to me – otherwise I don’t pick up the phone. I am on the Do-not-call list and still they call- I don’t pick up though.@Beviek -funny!

A dryer usually dings for a short time, if you have chosen to be warned before the drum stops turning, when the clothes will begin to wrinkle.

…never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.—John Donne

Yes, the DNC is ineffective; essentially so is the Fed complaint process.