Pickles by Brian Crane for January 20, 2021

That got Earls attention. The stomach always wins out.

touché, Opal

That’ll make Earl come to his senses.

Dump the food in the lamp shade.

and the coffee pot of coldness.

Sorry about that, Earl.

So he has to go to a diner for dinner for once. Big deal. He’ll get a real meal and not feel like a heel.

Call her bluff, then call your favorite pizza joint and order a large “House Special!” Even Nelson will enjoy a quality meal for a change!!

/SNARK/

Followed by “The Couch of Loneliness” tonight.

The "Feeling of Hungry ness " took over!

He should get smart!

Thats right Opal bring out the Big Guns right off !

Don’t worry about that, Earl. You can raid the refrigerator, order a pizza, or run out for Chinese.

Playing the dinner card… your move, Earl!

Sometimes there are consequences for trying to avoid consequences.

Earl go into the kitchen and make something you like and Opal hates ! Wait what am I saying Earl is to lazy for that ;-)

Order out Earl, get some decent food for a change.

Uhhhhhhh…….. ohhhhhhhhh…….

I’m thinking, Earl doesn’t have a basement or a shed/garage to retreat to.

Maybe Brian could expand on that? Have Earl take up woodworking? Model airplanes?

That is hitting below the belt.

Got you covered Earl.

Boy, is he stubborn, but then, so is Opal!

He can, and should go around the corner to the Bar of Many Beverages to salve his disappointment at missing the can of Beefaroni she has planned for him. At least he can get a delicious grease burger there. Yummo!

Learn to make a sandwich or nuke a frozen dinner.

At my house, who ever feels like it cooks the meal. It is about fifty-fifty. Sometimes we both cook and sometimes we go out. Sometimes we each fend for ourselves. We don’t always want the same thing.

Be careful getting into an escalation battle with someone that is willing to go farther than you.

Turn it the other way and it’s a “cone of shame”…

In the end, she has the upper hand!

Earl, you’re just lost the upper hand. “George: You can’t break up with me. I’ve got hand! Noel: And you’re gonna need it.”

And the bed of coldness.

I just had a premonition – that the cone of silence gets stuck on his head!

order pizza…but her favorite

As I’ve followed this I’d been thinking the Cone of Silence originated with the movie Coneheads, for some reason. Today I remembered it was Don Adams in the TV show Get Smart. He would insist the chief hoist a Cone of Silence plastic bubble over them and neither could hear what the other said. A lot of WHATS?

There are always consequences! :D

I knew the retaliation was coming quickly and harshly. Grandson just learned a lesson. Dont play games with grandma.

You need a new plan, Earl.