Pickles by Brian Crane for December 22, 2020

In our house mom always used Gold Medal® flour.

A restaurant in town put out new menus But it contained a spelling error in one of items. Ceasar chicken salad in a flower tortilla. I posted on a review site that I imagined the wrap was pretty!

Are you sure it isn’t Gold Medal or King Arthur flour?

and just how long have Earl and Opal been married? how can Earl not know Opal’s favorite things?

Couch City here Earl comes. Then an extended stay in the dog house.

Oh Earl, you’re hopless.

Earl is clueless!

To the moon, Earl!

20 yrs and hubby knows my birthday because he picks up my prescriptions, but the rest? Oh, he does know my fav flower, so that’s something. We made a deal back at about 12 yrs. I pick out the jewelry and he buys it. Not romantic but I get what I like.

Earl was Flower not flour ! Wake up son !

She was a flour child in the 60s.

Three days, Earl…you better remember something soon!

Pathetic Earl, real pathetic.

My dad used to call me before Christmas: “What am I going to give your mother?”

Wow – Hopeless AND Clueless…… Opal is SOOOooooo lucky.!

OY! He only sees Opal in a “working” capacity….not good Earl! Not good AT ALL!

Get her King Arthur flour and imperial margarine. You’re sure to get crowned.

Earl should have the phrase “I haven’t got a clue” printed on cards and hand them out. It would save time.

Earl, please buy Opal an outfit that is not lavender and not dotted. Brian won’t do it…

Find a competent massage therapist & get her gift cert’s, and/or manicures or pedicures at a salon. ….Unless you know for a fact she’s not into that… Those are gifts she doesn’t have to dust, cook, wash, clean etc. AND, one size fits all.

They been married how many years, appears Earl pays no attention to Opal, and does not care. I imagine Opal knows everything about Earl.

There are so many different flours these days: Whole Wheat, Unbleached, Enriched, Bread Making, Corn, Rye, Almond,…

Husband and I have quit buying each other stuff. We have enough. The problem is generally how to get rid of it.

I would have thought she was a Robin Hood user

the mind boggles

Evidently, Earl determinedly fail to pay attention all these years.

He truly does not care. I married one of those. I divorced one of those. Some people really do care, but have trouble with picking gifts and won’t ask for help easily. Some just have no desire to make the effort to show they care. He could, in the cartoon, be asking for suggestions from his buddy and actually listening. But no, he doesn’t care. Roscoe does!

Sad…

A gentleman who’s been married that long will not CLAIM to know her sizes… just like he won’t know her AGE!…

That got a snort out of me. :o) Way to go Earl.

Pillsbury? Doh! Boy …

Get her a sweater. One size fits all.

Bingo Earl, women can always use flour, and I am sure you it will get you a good dusting.

I’ve been married 40 years, and have no idea what size my wife wears. Only a fool attempts to buy clothes for a woman, unless it is something she asked for.

Here’s a suggestion for everyone who doesn’t like the humor in today’s strip: Step back one year and read the Pickles strips leading up to Christmas in 2019. They’re quite funny, and that works for other comics too.

Apathy

That’ll go over big….