Pickles by Brian Crane for June 16, 2020

at least you didn’t sound the raspberry at her, Nelson

When I had a youngish kid, I grew eyes in the back of my head too. Being the kind of person who thinks about such things, I considered how it was that I always knew where he was, and usually, what he was up to. I concluded that I had YKAS (Young Kid Awareness Syndrome): Hyper-awareness of what he’d been doing, what he was wearing, which way he was headed… not from some psychic ability but just from paying a lot of attention… though not all of it was conscious attention.

Q.E.D.

Kain’t git away wid nuthin roun hyar.

I once saw an infomercial for glasses with built-in rear-view mirrors. Maybe she bought a pair.

And Roscoe is the flabbergasted bystander.

There is an old saying that God couldn’t be everywhere and that’s why He made mothers. :)

The “Force” is with her my young padewon…………..

Good decision, Nelson…clothespin on the tongue hurts!

What you don’t see is the mirror Opal is looking at to see Nelson ;-)

The dog is the funniest part of this whole strip!!!

Don’t spit the COVID-19 droplets!

Clothespins…..aaaaah the good ole days…..

Pinch his tongue with a clothespin. Yep, that’d make some memories.

A clothespin? I’ll give Opal credit here. She COULD have threatened to use locking pliers.

My mother could even tell over the phone when I was lying. Every time.

Boy did I get a chill down my spine! That was my grandmother sitting there, saying that to me, when I was Nelson’s age.

Is she folding laundry?

I tried that once. Didn’t take. Then I tried a 9-volt battery. Sure enough The Tingler kept me on the straight and narrow through puberty.

No, no. Women can actually do this, as they have used it on me several times. Like the girl who sat in front of me in church, and told her mom who I was looking at.

I saw a Sci Fi flick once where a women;s hair was parted and there were to extra eyes back there. Scary.