Pickles by Brian Crane for February 02, 2022

How thoughtful of you Opal

Her answer is as pat as a flan cake.

When I was wanting/needing to sleep on the ground in a sleeping bag, I found I missed my big fat pillow, and it was hard to sleep. So over the course of a few months, I pulled out a handful of stuffing every week or so. I now sleep on a pillow that’s about 2 inches tall when fluffed… and have done so for decades. And no longer sleep on the ground. And have to bring my skinny pillow with me when we travel or I can’t sleep…

When I was 18, I came back from a ten day canoe trip to the Quetico-Superior canoe wilderness, now known as the Boundary Waters. We slept on the ground which took a couple days of getting used to. When I arrived back home, I couldn’t slrrp in my bed—too soft. My mother found me the next morning sleeping under a tree in the back yard.

solution: top Opal’s old pillow on Earl’s current pillow

Yeah, Opal, but the pillow doesn’t smell nearly as good!

All pillows can be machine washed and dried. Even feather. Like new again.

Mine is flat, works for me!

Your neck should be in a neutral position. The pillow should be the right thickness to keep your neck straight.

She could have at least got him some syrup and butter.

This can’t be real. No woman I’ve ever known would have two mismatched pillows on the bed. Ever.

Earl go talk to a groundhog :-)

This is NOTHING for Earl and Opal. This only registers a ‘3’ on the Contempt Scale.

“But those were fluffy pancakes as I seem to recall…”

French toast gives me weird dreams though.

No way!

Anyone knows that you buy two pillows to match, so that the made bed doesn’t look like cr@p!

Sorry Brian Crane: you didn’t do your research! ;-)

Take a soft old blanket. Fold said blanket to fit pillow case. Rest head and slumber.

Old towels or garments may be substituted, if needs be.

(I wasn’t always, a man of great wealth.)

Opel talks down to him

Life’s short…… get a new pillow.

I could take a nap anywhere. I even had a nap on a platform behind football field lights 100’ in the air.

Lordy! What’s wrong with her? Now the bed will look lopsided ….

I recommend “My Pillow”. I have had mine for a couple of years and love it.

I bought two new pillows in the late summer or early fall of 2020. Our pillows were old and truly needed replacing. The new pillows were over-filled so that you remove the stuffing to your desired firmness. I got mine just right after a couple of nights. My husband tried it one night, “too full” and is still still sleeping on his old pillow. I have grown tired of reminding him. I may take it myself soon and make it my own up at our vacation condo.

‘He falls asleep on pancakes? What a guy!

“But the syrup makes those comfortable.”

Earl, it’s called passive-aggressive.

“Just to add flavor to the pancakes.”

My child used to fall asleep in food at the table sometimes. I have pictures to be sold to said child some day.

Opal buy him a fat feather-filled pillow. As a boy of the 40s, I loved pulling their stems out after they poked me awake at all times of the night.

Pancakes are great for sleeping on

Said it before, probably say it again-what a hateful old bi**h. Can’t resist an old, true story- Many years ago one of my parent’s neighbors consisted of a post middle aged couple; wife, a rather shrewy unlikeable old thing, husband, a shyster used car salesman. One day he cleared out all the savings and assets and just disappeared. As a boy just out of high school, I remember smiling as I pictured him on a tropical beach somewhere surrounded by the classic beautiful brown-skinned native maidens… No one ever heard from him again…

Falling asleep on pancakes? This is the “Haywire Heresy!”

PILLOW FIGHT !

The bed is going to look uneven when you make it!

World’s most loving wife (not)!

Opal isn’t just mean, she’s also self-centered and uncaring.