Pickles by Brian Crane for February 05, 2021

Earl needs eye holes in that bag.

Or, he just put the purse into the shopping bag and no one is the wiser, right?

For crying out loud : CHANGE THE SUBJECT !

Is this deja vu? Haven’t I seen Earl with a bag over his head just like that.

It’s the Unknown Purse Holder!

She asked you to hold the purse, not to have sex.

What I don’t get is why the heck she doesn’t want to take the purse into the dressing room with her! There are doors! No one can get in once she turns the lock! Hello!!!

Opal bring Roscoe the next time and he can hold the purse ;-)

He should just embrace the role he plays! Wear it like a man!

Way back when the New Orleans Saints were doing bad, fans came to the game with bags on their heads . They were the Aints!

Every man knows that if you want to put a stop to this, open her purse and look through it!

Hey, look! It’s the Unknown Comic!

Wonder if that would pass as a covid mask?

Was this strip written in the 1950s? Who cares about a guy holding his wife’s purse? Zero humor.

Remember when we ran barefoot through a hot summer rain without any care given to the fact you were getting soaking wet. Your skate key was dangling from your neck on a cotton string with no need for some ornamental chain. Had to have your shoes resoled, new heels too. Used white chalk on the sidewalk to make a Hop-scotch game and all the girls in the neighborhood joined in, played Kick Can Alley, ollie-ollie in free, Hare & Hound, Jacks (ever step on one?) Jump Rope, Hide n’ seek and many more. In my day, we had to wait until 4 PM to watch Capt. Mac on UHF TV and Crusader Rabbit too. You actually watched the Indian TV Test Pattern. You could walk through a neighbor’s yard to get to a friend’s house without any problem, could ‘go back out’ and play after ‘Supper’, laid down on the floor in front of the TV, no one ever sat in ‘Dads’ chair, had to go out at night to find your dog, had to be home before dark, built a ‘Fort’ out of a large cardboard box, Most certainly a ‘Tree Fort’. Ever been caught by the neck on a clothesline when running through a neighbors yard, climbed up in a tall tree and were afraid to climb back down, got car sick from the fumes that came through the rear windows, got bus sick, stepped in dog poop while barefoot, got sandspurs in your foot, stepped on one of those ‘itchy’ plants with those little white stickers on them, “show me yours and I’ll show you mine”…Really? Played softball in a vacant lot in your neighborhood, had friends ride their bike up to the front of your house and yell out your name while adding…“can you come out and play?” You could climb telephone poles, Walking on stilts your Dad made. The family dog ‘went into heat’ and your parents ordered you to never let her out….she got out anyhow, Put on ‘your Sunday Best’ to go to church, first noticed hair growing under your arms, got your very first Bra, (not me…maybe you?) got your very first kiss on the lips from a boy/girl friend, You might have put Clearasil on your toot

Earl, if anybody laughs at you, just him him with your purse.

Like I said….OPAL, shop yourself! It’s not worth the embarrassment…..

I used to laugh at men that held their wives’ purses. Then I got married.

The old Auroramall. in Colorado used to have a bar between Dillards and Macy’s. The men had a place to wait for their S.O.s

Is this out of order? Hasn’t Earl been holding the purse all week?

The Unknown Old Man

Earl needs to get over the “macho” thing!

Put the strap around your neck and hang the bag a down your back, Earl. People with think it’s a fancy backpack.

That’s like putting glasses on Diana Prince and expecting people not to notice how beautiful she is.

I dont understand why she can’t take it inside with her. It’s not big enough to hide shop lifting stuff.

would she hold his Beer?

So they are too old to go into the changing room together like days of yore?

Time to purse-sue another story arc.

Why ccan’t she take her purse into the changing room? I wouldn’t trust my hubby to keep it safe.

I asked my wife once, what she would do if she was shopping by herself, what she would do. She said, “Take the purse into the dressing room with me”. I replied “I see an alternate course of action to me holding the purse.” She hasn’t asked me to hold the purse since and we are still very happily married.

I for one have never been embarrassed to hold my wife’s purse, or a baby when in a store. Then again, we will be married 46 years next month

Why doesn’t she take her purse in with her and hang it on the hook in the changing room? Maybe she’s afraid she will forget it?

“The Unknown Earl”…

A good angle here might be to have Earl get robbed of the purse while holding it. Or have him lose it somehow.

after all these years, you would think he would be used to this. Get over it Earl.

I would need more than a head bag to go incognito.

Earl…the unknown comic.