Pickles by Brian Crane for January 01, 2021

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    allen@home  almost 4 years ago

    Okay i’ll admit i’m confused here. Did Earl go shopping with Opal. Then forget and somehow wandered back to the house leaving Opal behind.

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    jagedlo  almost 4 years ago

    Looks like it’s going to be an interesting evening at the Pickles residence!

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    sirbadger  almost 4 years ago

    There are 2 possibilities: 1. He drove her to the store and walked home or 2. He did not drive her to the store and she thought he did.

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    pearlsbs  almost 4 years ago

    That car looks like a Studebaker.

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 4 years ago

    When was the last time Opal went shopping without Earl? She always makes him go to the places he doesn’t want to and she does.

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    Concretionist  almost 4 years ago

    This is why I carry a phone when I go shopping. Well, this and the one where I call home and say “Sweety, I found a real bargain on slightly out of date lutefisk-stuffed dill pickles, how much do we want?” (or at last, from her response, that’s what she must have heard me say). And the other one where I call home and say “Sweety, I left the list on the end of the counter. Could you read it to me, pretty please?”

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    stillfickled Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    How did he get home?

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    Sanspareil  almost 4 years ago

    Whatever happened It will be Earl’s fault forever!

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I always thought Earl would be the first to lose it.

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    DavidWilliams1  almost 4 years ago

    Is it a 1955 Oldsmobile?

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    dadoctah  almost 4 years ago

    I smell a Silver Alert coming….

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    Display  almost 4 years ago

    If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no wife to hear it, for some BS reason the husband is still gonna be wrong.

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    jonathan  almost 4 years ago

    This happened to me with my ex-wife one time. She was at work and I was waiting for her at home. Suddenly I get a call and she starts chewing me out for not having picked her up yet when I calmly tell her that she had the car. The next thing I hear is click and silence.

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    RobertKuhn  almost 4 years ago

    I think she drove herself and forgot he was not there.

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    GalleyOar  almost 4 years ago

    This is a repeat. One of my Pickles favorites.

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    cdward  almost 4 years ago

    Do we need to worry about Opal starting to lose it?

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    ForrestOverin  almost 4 years ago

    Opal THOUGHT she went with Earl, but she went by herself.

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    Jeffin Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    She’s driving herself? Crazy.

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    jpayne4040  almost 4 years ago

    I wonder how long she sat there waiting.

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    Jeffin Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    She wondered where that pain in her neck got to.

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    J Short  almost 4 years ago

    I walked out of the bank the other day. I was engrossed in reading some information and climbed into the back seat of my car. When I finished reading, I looked up. I was hoping nobody in the bank was watching as a climbed out and got into the driver’s seat.

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    morningglory73 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I see it the other way around. He drove them to shopping but he forgot he drove there and took a bus home leaving Opal waiting for him in the car.

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    Breadboard  almost 4 years ago

    Very interesting to see how this works out ! Got to wait until tomorrow ;-)

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    chick485  almost 4 years ago

    For folks with a loved one with dementia, this is the saddest strip of all time.

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    cubswin2016  almost 4 years ago

    I think Earl is going to be in big trouble even if this is not his fault.

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    Redd Panda  almost 4 years ago

    The front of that car??? Looks like a Studebaker.

    https://www.bridgeclassiccars.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1950_Studebaker_Champion_Main_Image-1.jpg

    Pretty darn close, do you agree?

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    Zebrastripes  almost 4 years ago

    Uh oh! Opal is having an “episode” …….

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    phboles  almost 4 years ago

    I like the Studebaker

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I hope we get a follow up on this.. be interesting to see how Opal blames Earl for this one.

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    Grace Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Why hasn’t she called his cell phone?

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    fandamovt  almost 4 years ago

    This has happened to Opal before. See October 16, 2005 comic.

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Sounds like me

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    MeGoNow Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Once had a man report his wife missing. Said he dropped her at the grocery while he went to a hardware store, and when he went back, she never came out. He sounded pretty sure about all that, and we had people in two counties running around looking for her, alerts, bulletins, everything. Finally, she called from the hardware store saying she went in with her husband and he vanished.

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    purepaul Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Had a lady here who took one of the family cars to Xmas shop at the mall. Came out to discover the car was gone. Called troopers who put out an alert. When the responding trooper drove her home, the car was in the drive. Her teenager forgot which he’d borrowed to go to the mall. Forgetful behavior knows no minimum age.

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    Stocky One  almost 4 years ago

    I think it’s pretty clear that she drove her self and forgot. The interesting thing will be to see how this continues.

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    RaydarA  almost 4 years ago

    There will be a lot of heat and noise when she gets home, until she realizes…

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    jonathan  almost 4 years ago

    It is 2021 right? Cell phones do exist don’t they?

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    jandaloft  almost 4 years ago

    They have an old 50’s Studebaker!

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    kathleenhicks62  almost 4 years ago

    Opal is in big trouble…….

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    flpmlp  almost 4 years ago

    Love the Studebaker!

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    elmer100 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    This strip is a rerun. I hope it was on purpose otherwise the Brian Crane is the one having issues. This was one of my favorites. I had it hanging on my refrigerator for years.

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    Scaramouche  almost 4 years ago

    WOW! Earl’s got a 1955 Studebaker Champion!

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    Odd Dog Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Happy New Years to all and may all of us have a better New year than the last! ;^)

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    Dan Tooker  almost 4 years ago

    I think it may be a 1951 Studebaker Commander Starlight Coupe. Worth anywhere from $5000 to $30000 depending on condition. We need to get Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz to take a look at this.

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    stamps  almost 4 years ago

    At least eat the ice cream before it melts.

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    kab2rb  almost 4 years ago

    Oh Earl you are so bad.

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    maggaggiemay  almost 4 years ago

    I could swear that I read a four-panel comic in the last two weeks (I thought it was Pickles, but apparently not) where the woman is waiting in the car just like this, but then she realizes on her own that she drove herself. Does anyone else remember this or have I lost my mind?

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    zeexenon  almost 4 years ago

    Well High Test gas cans for Studebakers are hard to find.

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    caring55  almost 4 years ago

    not funny. dementia is the monster in the closet that I fear more than any other.

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    M M  almost 4 years ago

    Looks lke she is in passenger seat and waiting for Earl to come back to the car and drive them home.

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    Back to Big Mike  almost 4 years ago

    I just love that Studebaker Commander. My dad had one when I was just learning to drive. The inside was HUGE. There was almost no transmission hump and it was so quiet. No, he never let me even sit in the drivers seat. I learned in a Beetle.

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    WilliamDoerfler  almost 4 years ago

    Engrish is funny, ! ?

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    KennethJ.Grider  almost 4 years ago

    is this to be continued. Same Pickles time, same Pickles station. Tune in tomorrow.

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    ilikai  almost 4 years ago

    Women!!!!! no matter what, the man is wrong

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    billdaviswords  almost 4 years ago

    It’s much much much more likely that she would return to the car and forget Earl didn’t drive her, than for Earl to walk all the way home and then forget, and to for him not to remember when his daughter asks him.

    Opal drove herself, then thought Earl had wandered off (or hadn’t returned to meet her at the car after he got pie or something). She’s sitting there fussing at him, but it’s not his fault.

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    paullp Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    1) Based on the available evidence, I’m siding with the “Opal-went-shopping-by-herself-and-forgot-that-Earl-didn’t-go-with-her” crowd.

    2) Remember that they don’t live in our universe, so it is entirely possible that in their universe, this car is the latest model.

    Happy New Year, Everyone!

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    OMG! I don’t know why this is killing me, but I can’t stop laughing!!!

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    6foot6  almost 4 years ago

    Didn’t this happen before? Seems like this is a repeat.

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