Pickles by Brian Crane for January 24, 2022

What does your losing Earl’s car keys have to do something stupid?

My wife dropped her car keys as she was getting out of the car. They landed under the seat wedged against the rail the seat slides on. We both tried for fifteen minutes to get them out. Somehow they wouldn’t come out the space they went in. Eventually I got them out with needle nosed pliers and force.

Accountability is her kryptonite

When I was stepping into our elevator I had been a bit too quick and brushed against the edge of the elevator door as it was sliding open. I had my keys in my hand and the friction was enough to dislodge them and send them down the shaft. I was told by the property manager that it would cost me from $500 to $1000 to get them back depending on if they had to call the elevator repair company just to come for that retrieval. But thankfully the superintendent of our building told the elevator company about my keys and luckily for me a scheduled maintenance call was on the books a few days after I had dropped them. I got them back and I did not have to pay one cent. Nowadays I make sure my keys are secure when I come and go when using the elevator!

My “key” is actually a fob for my car with a push button start. It would stay in my pocket at all times if not for the local grocery store card. (House keys are on a 2nd set. Those leave my pocket at the threshold of our front door, easy to find if dropped.)

Maybe it’s implied that she tried, but you’re making no attempt to find them, Opal?

A strong magnet is an amazingly versatile tool :)

“I’m going to tell Earl about the lost car keys when he gets back from his drive to the store.”

These things help – connects to your smartphone, easy, far less expensive than others, and better range too. They’re tags you clip onto things like key rings and they make a sound so you can find them. And they even can let other users in their system phones alert you to their general location if you do something like lose them while shopping – it’s like a network looking for where you lost something. And with most of these, unlike some others, you can replace the batteries (which you can find in a lot of stores).

https://chipolo.net/en/

Oh real nice…….. Lose his stuff….AND insult him behind his back – wow (LOL)

Opal has a new friend? I’ve never seen her before.

Opal is bold and quick to criticize Earl but let her blunder….she cowards out….

Men are always doing something stupid, like giving up their bachelorhood in the first place!

I was at the beach on Lake Erie one summer. A guy came up to me and asked if he could use my cell phone. Seems he went into the water and lost his keys, phone and wallet. Why he didn’t feel all that stuff in his pockets, I don’t know.

Wait long enough and when he says he can’t find the keys look him straight in the eye and say Where did you leave them last.

Maybe she’ll look a little harder when she wants him to take her to the fabric store.

Locked myself out of my car. a friend’s helpful fiance got the car door open in about a minute with a coat hanger. Guess he’d had lots of practice. They later broke up after she heard some bad things about him.

Hard to find replacement keys for a Bullet Nosed Studebaker!

Just keep watering the flowers Opal. Never mind looking for the keys!

“Earl is quite consistent that way. One of the MANY things I love about him.”

I took my child on a car trip one time when she was quite young. We stopped to eat, in another state, and I almost dropped my keys down a grate over a drain. This was pre-fob days, and before I had a cell phone. After that, I always gave her a second set of car keys when we left the house.

What a hateful old broad.

What if she has a heart attack & can’t tell him?

My car and bike keys are always in my pocket. With key fobs, there no need to take them out.