Me sweeping up a bottle cap for 5 mins cause I’m too lazy to pick it up…yet it now made me mad it won’t allow me to sweep it in my dustpan. Yeah. It’s like that.
A lawyer acquaintance of mine once remarked that when a potential client wishes to lodge a lawsuit based upon “the principle of the thing,” make that client pay cash in advance; that case is guaranteed loser.
You know Opal, you wouldn’t have this problem if you quit spitting the seeds on the floor in the first place. Even better buy a seedless watermelon. Problem Solved.
Who else has been there … you are using the vacuum cleaner and there is cat/dog fur or a piece of string that is on the carpet that the vacuum cleaner just doesn’t pick up. You reach down pick it up with your hands and then drop it back down on the carpet to give the vacuum cleaner another chance (or 2 … or 3 …).
She’d rather sweep it up and then scrub out the dust pan, power wash the broom, put them in the sun to dry, wipe up any dust that might have been left behind on the floor where the seed was, launder the dust cloth…
allen@home over 1 year ago
Opal you’re already on your knees. Just pick that seed up. You’re acting silly.
sirbadger over 1 year ago
This is like trying to get the last grain of rice with a fork.
C over 1 year ago
Can’t let mere reason compete with feelings
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
I pick up watermelon seeds and similarly thin, slippery or sticky things using a spatula.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 1 year ago
Truth is you actually can just go ahead and swallow them. I don’t always but sometimes I do.
JenF over 1 year ago
Me sweeping up a bottle cap for 5 mins cause I’m too lazy to pick it up…yet it now made me mad it won’t allow me to sweep it in my dustpan. Yeah. It’s like that.
Sue Ellen over 1 year ago
Some things just won’t allow the broom to bully them into the dustpan.
ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ over 1 year ago
she doesn’t know how to cope with something she can’t scold, embarrass, belittle or backhand
iggyman over 1 year ago
Sometimes you feel you just have to win, no matter what!
GoPickled Premium Member over 1 year ago
What job position Earl retired from we don’t know, but with this posture and talking like this… it must have been management.
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
Just sweep that seed right out of the door!
ddl297 over 1 year ago
They invented the rhoomba (sp?) because they can’t perfect a dustpan – ALWAYS that fricking line of dust!!
jagedlo over 1 year ago
Just leave her be, Earl…or you might get a closer look at that broom she’s wielding!
assrdood over 1 year ago
Speaking of spatulas. We have several but I’ve named my favorite. I call him Clark – named after the famous singer.
ANIMAL over 1 year ago
2 pieces of scrap paper work just FINE.
wongo over 1 year ago
That’s why I dropped out of school, it was the “principal” of the thing!
Bookworm over 1 year ago
A lawyer acquaintance of mine once remarked that when a potential client wishes to lodge a lawsuit based upon “the principle of the thing,” make that client pay cash in advance; that case is guaranteed loser.
Moonkey Premium Member over 1 year ago
I am surprised Roscoe didn’t eat it that seed.
Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago
You know Opal, you wouldn’t have this problem if you quit spitting the seeds on the floor in the first place. Even better buy a seedless watermelon. Problem Solved.
ladykat over 1 year ago
She WILL win the battle of the watermelon seed!
ssejhill over 1 year ago
Who else has been there … you are using the vacuum cleaner and there is cat/dog fur or a piece of string that is on the carpet that the vacuum cleaner just doesn’t pick up. You reach down pick it up with your hands and then drop it back down on the carpet to give the vacuum cleaner another chance (or 2 … or 3 …).
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Opal is as stubborn as they come…
kaycstamper over 1 year ago
Her against the dustpan/broom!
zeexenon over 1 year ago
Fighting the good fight.
tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 1 year ago
The principle being that you can hurt your back being so darn stubborn
dadoctah over 1 year ago
At this point, if she doesn’t get it, the watermelon seed becomes a recurring character in the strip.
sobrown51 over 1 year ago
Don’t let the watermelon seed win.
goboboyd over 1 year ago
She’d rather sweep it up and then scrub out the dust pan, power wash the broom, put them in the sun to dry, wipe up any dust that might have been left behind on the floor where the seed was, launder the dust cloth…
s7553372p over 1 year ago
When is the last time you saw a watermelon seed? All the melons now are seedless.
soaringblocks over 1 year ago
hahahahaha