Pickles by Brian Crane for July 19, 2023

You wear your watch to bed, Earl ?

More like an early flusher.

My bladder didn’t come with a snooze button either, Earl.

It’s his bladder that’s the early riser.

“Opal, you know perfectly well it counts."

It’s part of being an old man!

The trick is to NOT wake all the way up. I manage that most of the time. You wake from a dream of looking for a bathroom and after a brief sojourn … still mostly asleep… you return to the bed and the dream. Which probably morphs into something stranger but who cares: You’re asleep!

Don’t bother me, I have to get back to sleep before I have to do it all again.

i it’s “A.M.” it’s too early.

Six is late – it was 4:45 for me this morning.

Sure, keep telling yourself that, Earl!

6:00 AM is sleeping in.

I used to wear a watch to bed, with mechanical movements. The soft ticking was soothing.

With apologies to Rita Rudner ~ "Men and going to the bathroom. It seems they’re happy if they just hit ‘something’. "

How about if you fall asleep on the toilet? Pretty sure I’ve done that!

Nice TRY Earl……… nice try

After over 40 years of being at work by 6 am or earlier I’ve retired and now get up between 7 and 8. I enjoy sitting on my deck watching the wildlife in my backyard as opposed to sitting at my desk watching the idiots in my office.

Late to bed and early to rise makes and old man Healthy, Wealthy, and keeps the sheets Dry.

At earls age that relief may have been well past 5 minutes. Prostate changes..

He never heard a word… zzzzzzzzzzz!

I get up to do the same thing around 6, and then I go back to bed until around 7:30.

There are times in a man’s life – mostly between midnight and six – when Nature’s ‘suggestions’ become demands if not promptly obeyed.

For some reasons, text editor would not accept this sentence [original was English] Et plus on vieillit, moins il y a de temps entre « peut-être que je devrais ». . .’ et ‘ou bien.’_

Can you be an early riser 3 or 4 times every morning?

It takes me longer than 5 minutes.

Ha! I usually “get up” at FIVE-THIRTY!!!;P . . . then I actually “wake up” around 8:30.

Of course Opal has to make it entirely impossible to fall back to sleep.

My former boss and good friend has a rule, "If it’s yellow, let it mellow. (A word to the wise in this economy [lid down with pets[).

This comic is so cute!

My brain will get me up in the middle of the night for the middle of the night trip one way or another. If I don’t respond the first time, I will get a dream that I am peeing my bed. Of course, I never have, but it will wake me right up and get me out of my bed!

Going to the restroom is the best reason for getting out of bed in the morning. It HAS to be done.

I would call getting up at 6am being a late riser. I just recently started getting up at 5 instead of 4. I’m kind of ashamed of being so lazy, but think it might be healthier to get 5 hours of sleep instead of 4.

Lol…that’s me…..this comic strip is us to a tee…

If that’s being a early riser, then I early rise at 2:30 am.

I know it has nothing to do with the punch line, but I’m surprised Rosco doesn’t wake them up to go potty by 6 a.m.

In the last panel Earl looks like he’s wearing a gag.