Pickles by Brian Crane for December 08, 2021

If nobody sees the undies except Earl, maybe the new color is better. Maybe she shouldn’t wear the white blouse.

Buying some new clothes is much preferable to getting roped into “laundry man” duties. There’s one chore Opal won’t ask Earl to do again.

See if she ever asks him to do laundry any more

I would’ve been unhappy with my guy for washing my “undies” with his pants to start with! His pants are often covered in oil, dirt, gas etc but he claims to not know how to use the washer anyway lol. (I’m certain he could figure it out, he uses all sorts of tools and machines building houses but I’ve just always done the laundry and before I did it his mother did)

I finally got my late husband to wash his own clothes and leave mine alone after he put one of my blouses in the dryer and it came out too small for the cat.

Just asking as someone who lives alone, but can a big bottle of vinegar help get the ink out of all that laundry?

Belly laugh.

A perfect illustration of the “over-try” Peter Parry (see The Peter Principal ). The result of a well executed Peter Parry is being left in place rather than being promoted to a position of incompetence. The more usual PP is to dress inappropriately, take up a sport or behavior that doesn’t fit the company image or some other minor infraction of “how it’s done”. But demonstrating your clear inability to do the “promoted” job can work just as well.

My wife won’t let me near the laundry.

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Tie-dyed undies!

As if it would matter. And, he didn’t say anything about his shorts.

Don’t ever do your wife’s laundry. You cannot do it correctly and you will just get yelled at.

Are married men really that helpless? I’ve been doing my own laundry for decades.

The worse I do is forget a tissue in my pocket os some loose change in my pockets!

I’m a little bit concerned about her response.

Earl tis just another fashion statement ! It will fade away ;-)

who will notice unless she gets into an accident.

And you may want to check the washer to see if you need to call a repairman…

I usually leave tissues in my pockets. Not anything that stains, just a mess of paper scraps.

Go for it, Opal! You DESERVE new underwear. . .OTH, how could you marry a man who’s so stup. . uh. . .dum. . .ugh. . .helpl. . that he can’t even run an automatic washer. . .

Oh now you’re just being mean to Earl

A loose Crayon in the dryer will mess up everything too.

I’m interested in what his pants look like now.

He should get an “A” for effort…….. or maybe NOT..!!!!!

((((((((((. Whaaaaaat? )))))))))) Earl just settles for whatever….his pants probably look Ty-dyed….lol

I’m OK with getting new colour undies for free.

Never had that problem. Worst I had was the section, that part that holds the nib of a fountain pen decided to split while I was writing a letter. The letter looked like one of Charlie Brown’s before he switched to pencil. Had to use a lot of Amodex and a brush. AS strange as it seems, I finally got it all off in the shower. Turns out shampoo works wonders.

Was it his Montblanc Steinway($3,600) he left in the pocket? I cannot understand the big deal on doing laundry-takes 5-10 minutes to load another 2 minutes transfer to dryer. If his dryer gets that hot it likely is going to catch fire someday and burn the house down, especially if they have never cleaned out the dryer vent hose.

Not sure why anyone cares about color of their undies, unless you’re showing them to people like a Victoria’s Secret model.

Well, except poop brown undies.

I do all the laundry, have never asked husband to attempt to use the washer or dryer. He does all sorts of complicated stuff in the workshop, but he attempted to use the dishwasher while I was gone for a few days, used the wrong soap, and although we ended up with a spotless kitchen floor, we eventually had to buy a new dishwasher.

Why women do the laundry. All I asked is they clean out their own pockets, with a week’s laundry for 4 people, that’s 56 pockets to check, not counting shirts! I hated it when my husband would leave kleenex in his pocket. No one wanted to hear my ranting the whole time I was trying to get the pieces off the entire load!!

Well Earl put an end to her knitting.

oh good Now I can go SHOPPING for me! See you later hon.

I once washed my ex’s jeans that, unbeknownst to me. had an envelope of marijuana in them. He never “forgot” to check his pockets again

You want ME to go shopping? Oh thank you dear. And it’s about time we replaced your easy chair.

Haha something about the word “undies” here just doesn’t gel.

Three of us here. Everyone in this house does his or her own laundry. We share doing things like sheets and towels, and yes, they don’t always get folded correctly, but that’s an easy fix.

Earl just employed the technique of “protective incompetence.” He must need supervision for a few loads of laundry. He can figure it out.

Every good deed includes its own punishment.

About 45 years ago I worked in a government office with an older man, probably about 50-ish. One day the pen in his pocket leaked and so, for the rest of the day, he had a large ink stain right there on the front of his dress shirt. No big deal, accidents happen. But then he continued to wear that same ink-stained shirt in his regular rotation. We all wondered what was going on with his wife.

good way to get out of laundry