Pickles by Brian Crane for January 30, 2021

Why would Earl leave his whatever-’twas in the bathtub?

When you are married it is uncanny how your spouse can sense things that you are thinking. There are other moments that can be almost mystical because of the bond the two of you share. My wife and I got married in 2000. I had been diagnosed with third stage thyroid cancer the year before. My last surgery had been the most invasive. We had to beg my oncologist to let us get married and have a two week honeymoon. He relented but was not happy about the delay as the cancer had begun to spread quicker in my lymph node system. Despite only being married for two weeks my wife and I shocked the nurses in the recovery room after my surgery. I had been out like a light. The nurses let my wife in to see me although it had been against the rules but since she was a RN they let her see me. They told her that I was out cold and could not hear her. But she called my name and I opened my eyes. My wife said the two nurses looked shocked, thunder struck that I responded. I remember seeing my wife smiling at me and her saying, “It’s okay Michael…go back to sleep.” which I did. The nurses said that there was no way I should have known that my wife had spoken to me.

Brother and I hadn’t been together much during adulthood but he’s living with me now and we often know what the other’s thinking.

When she starts giving Earl the Answers before Earl even starts asking the Questions, it will be like a special Home Edition of Jeopardy.

This reminds me of the Nancy Sinatra Lee Hazlewood song “Have you Ever”

It is scary when you know someone so well you finish their sentences!

Opal has to know everything if she’s always going to be right.

Only “slightly scary”, Earl?

Tis the Bunny Slippers that give Opal her ESPN Powers ! ;-)

She should have been the one to say scary.

Earl is too kind. All things considered, Opal is more than “slightly” scary.

Only “slightly”?

Left my cell phone in the freezer once. Eyeglasses in the fridge. Belt on the desk. My work keys where my Grandsons could get them. I have memory pills beside my chair but I forget to take them.

Earl is just too predictable.

IN the bathtub??? Today’s mystery – what did Earl leave “in” the bathtub? Will only Earl and Pearl know for sure OR just Pearl.? Stay tuned and maybe we readers will find out!!!!!

We do that all the time with old movies on TV. I’ll say, “Is that what’s-his-name?” and she will say, “No, it’s the other guy.” We’re both satisfied with the answer…

When is Opal not scary?

“SLIGHTLY”..??

Earl would be so happy if he left Opal for good.

I like that. I shall endeavor to be helpful but scary. A (very small) Godzilla who brings ice cream.

About 25 years ago, my wife and I and our two little boys had just left for a long road trip vacation. I asked my wife, “Did your ember to pack the”. She said yes before I finished. I knew she understood me, and said, “Thanks.” Both boys went crazy, wanting confirmation that she understood me, and that I knew she had. After five full minutes of putting them off, my wife said what she thought I was asking about, and it was spot on. That was one of our most extreme moments of this, but it still happens often.

Opal know you very well Earl, I need that knowledge. I try to do that with my hubby and he does not get it.

She knows him VERY well.

The Holy Bible says man and woman become ONE flesh and it is that male/female counterparts that God put in place to balance one another.

My Ecuadoran wife says she always knows what I’m thinking … but it loses something in the translation!

Squint like George Costanza and you can see these reminders written on the top of his hand.

My husband of nearly 30 years gives me the oddest look when I do this, like he suspects I’ve got his brain bugged or something. I just tell him that knowing stuff like that is my job. As to OTHER weird stuff I know, I tell him I read billboards. (That started when I happened to have the answer to an odd question he asked from a billboard I had just recently read.) See, there’s always a simple answer. And I’ll have it for you before you finish your question. ;-)

It was his Trump ducky.

Most women are.