Pickles by Brian Crane for August 25, 2021

Me, I figure if I croak in my home, how many months before anyone notices.

All this “death talk” is making me hungry… Is it supper time yet?

She’s got ya coming and going!

Earl go clean off your shoes ….. You stepped in it again ;-)

You can’t win, Earl.

When you’re married to a Harridan, what do you expect?

Not all about you, Opal!

So, should Earl change so that Opal will be glad to see him go?

Wait until you hear what music he’s requested to be played at the funeral….

Opal’s admitting that she’s a “loved one”?

Harridan was my first wife’s middle name.

So when that “check engine” light comes on, who gives a big rats kahooie"

I might be missed when i die, but very few people will know who is gone. Most people know me by sight, not by name so an obituary won’t help much unless someone finds a photo to go with it.

What Earl said in the first panel reminds me of that scene in a musical version of A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is seeing the future, where people are singing “Thank You Very Much.” He doesn’t realize they are celebrating his death, with the leaders dancing on his coffin.

yup, just like a woman to take it like that..

I talk, text, email family members daily! So if they don’t hear from me….they’ll know somethings wrong…I hope. LOL

I’ve had some bosses that when they pass, they won’t find enough people who care enough to carry the casket, unless it’s to make sure they are truly dead…

Way to do think negative there, Earl

O.K. kids, here’s the earworm for the day… You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjENhIdDsic

What is it they say? Don’t cry because I am gone, but smile because I was here.

That’s when you turn it back on them. “So you want to be glad that I am no longer in your life?”

listed a condo about 10 years or so ago man’s mother had died in her bed and it was couple of month before anyone checked on her.

my doctors office will have a wine and cheese party to celebrate my departure!

I’m sure when I’m gone, my survivors will miss “what’s his name”.

What a light hearted, cheerful discussion! I was focused more on what a grump Opal is and what a drag she’d be to live with.

I have been reconciled to that fact for many years.

She shouldn’t figure HE will be the first to go… My Dad had 2 wives die before him!

even sadder if no one notices you’re gone

My dog doesn’t even bark. She would be looking sadly out the window until someone noticed. Well, she might bark if I didn’t feed her.

For the many who have commented on dying home alone and not being found in a timely fashion – I’ve signed up with a service that I phone into every a.m., and if they don’t hear from me by the time I chose (10:00) they first call me to make sure I didn’t just forget, and if I don’t respond they phone the people I designated (my local kids) to come check on me. It gives us all peace of mind. The one is use is https://dailycall.iamfine.com/? There may be others.

You reap what you sew.

O.K. Earl, start being a selfish slob. When she complains about that, just say you didn’t want her to feel bad when you die.

Earl to work at life so friends and family remember you is great, yet other side as me and family would not even care. Cousins do not talk to each other. I have 2 especially one who is a single man who has no one in his life no one will remember him.

Opal seems pretty sure he’s going first.

2 Chronicles 21:20 regarding bad king Jehoram.

“Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

—Mark Twain

The day will come when you’ll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one.

I know of 2 friends that my wife will tell I’m gone. And that’s it. No one else.