Pickles by Brian Crane for March 29, 2020

Yup.

On top of everything else, over time, spouses vary between having cold feet that they warm on your back and throwing all the covers off because they’re too hot. And the periodicity of those changes isn’t the same: My cycle’s apparently a couple of years + and spouse’s cycle is closer to 5 years. So there’s no way to figure out a permanent solution.

this may be why Ricky and Lucy slept in separate beds: no hogging the one set of covers in one bed

Get a spare blanket, just because you share the same bed doesn’t mean you have to share the same blanket.

Separate beds…. heck separate rooms and…. bliss!

When your bed is a simile of your life, you know you’re doing something right… metaphorically speaking.

In my old age I have perfected the blanket lock.

This is why I have my own blanket.

Looks like Earl needs a 3 Roscoe night!

There are advantages to sleeping alone.

That is certainly life, Earl! You just can’t win!

Good Luck Earl ! With me tis the dogs Hogging up the Couch !

One of the perks of divorce.

Sigh. . .it’s always something. . .

I just buy blankets that are big enough! I own a ‘full’ sized bed but buy queen sized blankets!

The moral of this story? Buy a better blanket. Long and warm.

I am inspired to suggest Double-Wide Blankets.

My wife takes the entire bed, not just the blankets. She complains that I am taking too much room…that 2" I get at the edge. She wants the entire bed as well as the blankets …and we have a KING size bed.

Sssssh! I’m trying to sleep here…..

I learned how to turn over without stealing the blanket. I’m divorced now. Related?

Rather be the yanker than the yankee. The advantage of sleeping solo.

We went to twin beds 45 years ago after 4 years of just that very problem..

There’s almost always a friendly solution to any problem if you just put your mind to it.

Almost always.

grab her boobs show roll over but you still have to get your own blanket

Get your own bed.

Exactly why the fetal position was invented. My dear (RIP) put her icy feet on my toasty toots.

Get a blanket bigger than the bed and you will not have these problems. If you have a double, get a queen size blanket. If a queen, get a king. If a king, get separate blankets.

A day might come, Earl, when you’d give anything, anything, to have your love roll over with the blanket just one more time. That day came for me in January of this year. When you’re left alone, it’s funny what you find you miss.

That about covers it, Earl!

We have seperate blankets, so when one of us get up in the night, the other’s blanket doesn’t move.

I have a nephew that’s 6’3" I crocheted him an afghan that was over 10 feet long. Auntie made sure that he has a cover to fit his proportions because that’s what aunties do.

Bet he liked her a lot better back when she had night-time hot flashes.

Am I the only one who saw this as a grim metaphor about death?He starts off by saying “Life is like a short blanket”.The strip is about his efforts to become happy. But when his wife ‘rolls over’, (Which is a euphemism for death) he finds himself cold and alone.

My wife and I have always slept with 2 different blankets due to this reason.