It’s the thought that counts. For good AND ill. Start him with something small. Folding socks. Wait, he’d have to match them first. With Earl, It could easily spiral out of control.
That is very similar to what I did when I was 10 to get out of washing the dishes. I was sooo clumsy, I broke a few glasses, a couple of bowels and in just a couple of weeks my mother told me to stop washing the dishes. I thought vacuuming was much easier than washing dishes
My wife doesn’t like the way I fold the towels even though I do it the same way she does. So, I simply stopped doing it since she was unfolding and redoing them herself anyway. But then she also is a stickler that the corners of two stapled papers have to be exactly lined up so probably some OCD there.
The husband of a friend of my wife tried this. Anything he didn’t want to do, he made a point of doing incompetently so that his wife had to redo it. He thought he was so smart because she never asked him to do those tasks again. He was completely blindsided when she filed for divorce.
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
Earl has her trained!
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
Can Earl do anything right without Opal scolding him?
stairsteppublishing over 1 year ago
Neatly folding seems to be a woman’s thing – most of the time.
The dude from FL Premium Member over 1 year ago
That’s how you do a fitted bottom sheet…right?
adunano367 over 1 year ago
Incompetence; The greatest labor-saving device.
profbob over 1 year ago
Earl should have offered to ‘help’ Opal with folding the laundry.
Cpeckbourlioux over 1 year ago
Well played, Earl.
KA7DRE Premium Member over 1 year ago
Probably a good thing Opal thought that out before answering Earl.
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
Under that grizzled white mustache is a sly, knowing grin.
iggyman over 1 year ago
Panel 3 is how I fold fitted sheets!
eced52 over 1 year ago
He should buy one of those t-shirt folding boards, and show her how good you can fold them.
enigmamz over 1 year ago
At least he offered.
Of course, it’s easy to offer when you know you’ll turned down, but still, it counts!
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.
cubswin2016 over 1 year ago
It looks to me that Earl is borrowing one of Ray Barone’s tricks.
juicebruce over 1 year ago
Time for a lesson in folding ;-)
Darryl Heine over 1 year ago
He doesn’t know how to fold clothes right!
goboboyd over 1 year ago
It’s the thought that counts. For good AND ill. Start him with something small. Folding socks. Wait, he’d have to match them first. With Earl, It could easily spiral out of control.
Chris over 1 year ago
she knows you too well there Earl.
Gen.Flashman over 1 year ago
Have they ever disclosed what his occupation was before he retired?
rhpii over 1 year ago
I fold all the laundry at our house, why? because I’m better at it and I don’t leave it sitting around in baskets for several days.
rickmac1937 Premium Member over 1 year ago
They’re never happy Earl
ANIMAL over 1 year ago
IT WORKED..!!!!!! – All those years of “fail conditioning” paid OFF..!!!!
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Don’t say I didn’t offer….but everyone has their own way…
walstib Premium Member over 1 year ago
My wife folds bath towels end to end, and then across. So then I need to refold them lengthwise to hang them up.
morningglory73 Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s a trick Opal, he really has no intention of folding the laundry. There must be a word for such treachery.
e.groves over 1 year ago
The only clothes I have to fold are my skivvies. Everything else goes on a hanger.
brick10 over 1 year ago
Offer made, and offer declined. Next are complaining about Earl never helping out.
Diat60 over 1 year ago
The whole point of folding clothes is that you don’t have to IRON so many of them! Especially tees, jeans and fitted sheets.
Snuffles [Previously Helikitty] over 1 year ago
And then she’s going to get mad at him for not helping her fold.
Yardley701 over 1 year ago
Earl folds the clothes as my husband does, he just takes it out of the dryer and throws them on the bed, getting everything nice and wrinkled.
timbob2313 Premium Member over 1 year ago
That is very similar to what I did when I was 10 to get out of washing the dishes. I was sooo clumsy, I broke a few glasses, a couple of bowels and in just a couple of weeks my mother told me to stop washing the dishes. I thought vacuuming was much easier than washing dishes
MuddyUSA Premium Member over 1 year ago
It is that simple!
zeexenon over 1 year ago
Never have I ever offered that …. till maybe after I saw how Sheldon did it.
sobrown51 over 1 year ago
My wife doesn’t like the way I fold the towels even though I do it the same way she does. So, I simply stopped doing it since she was unfolding and redoing them herself anyway. But then she also is a stickler that the corners of two stapled papers have to be exactly lined up so probably some OCD there.
dlaemmerhirt999 over 1 year ago
Funny! I, the 35 year old physically disabled son, do 99% of the folding!
The Orange Mailman over 1 year ago
morningglory73 Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s an old ruse, offer to help then do such a bad job you’ll never be asked to do anything again.
heathcliff2 over 1 year ago
Often true. Not that wrinkle, but a different wrinkle is better.
cuzinron47 over 1 year ago
You can start with the fitted sheets, that should keep him busy for awhile.
kab2rb over 1 year ago
Opal knows Earl too well.
kathleenhicks62 over 1 year ago
I finally gave up and leave my husband to fold his own clothes.
Ed The Red Premium Member over 1 year ago
The husband of a friend of my wife tried this. Anything he didn’t want to do, he made a point of doing incompetently so that his wife had to redo it. He thought he was so smart because she never asked him to do those tasks again. He was completely blindsided when she filed for divorce.
edeloriea14 over 1 year ago
Earl would leave the laundry in an untidy heap.