Pickles by Brian Crane for November 16, 2022

Spoiling the grandkids is the BEST revenge!

point taken, Opal

Grandchildren are God’s gift to me for letting my kids live through their teenage years!

Very few animal species have family structures where grandparents interact with, let alone help care for, their grandchildren. For those which do (including whales and elephants), it’s a sign of a highly cohesive, supportive familial community.

In the wild there are some species that eat their young, grandkids are the reason humans don’t.

Roscoe and Muffins are relying on Earl and Opal to take care of them. So, Earl is not totally useless.

We survive as examples of what can happen to the young over time.

Amen! Our purpose in life is to spoil the grandchildren, enjoy their company, and send them home.

And someone needs to read Pickles every day!

Those who have grandchildren are very lucky! Tell ’em Opal!

The invention of grandparents was a major step in human evolution.

She doesn’t know how to spoil him, she makes him work for rewards.

We skipped children and went right to grandchildren (great-nieces and -nephews).

One of the times that Opal makes sense!

Oh boyyyyyy……. what did he do?

Spoiling a grandchild is so much more true from the grandmother’s viewpoint (than it is from the grandfather’s viewpoint).

Earl is going to eat some of the cookies, too. He will make himself useful that way. Don’t want the cookies to “go bad”. That’s what my dad use to say when he had another helping of dessert.

Grandchildren are your revenge on your own kids. Now your children realize what you went through when they were growing up!

The very reason we keep a supply of giant 15" long Pixie Sticks on hand. Before the grandkids go home we give each of them one.

Wish I could say that. sigh

I don’t know what I’de do without my grandchildren…and one great- grand child! The loves of my life! ❤️❤️❤️

And if there are no grandkids??

I ask myself that same question, Earl.

Gotta pass on the wealth of information you gleaned in your lifetime. And in days of old, mind the little ones while the able were out trying to bring down an elephant for supper.

Some of us never had children. Does this mean our entire existence has been useless? One can always find things to give one’s life meaning. At any age.

It’s hard to accept Earl being so introspective. It’s very out-of-character.

Aw, a rare sweet Pickles strip.

This is the same joke as the comic that ran on Aug 3, 2022. It is not the identical dialogue, but the same phrases in a different order. Must have had trouble with inspiration that day. Or Brian Crane is really in to recycling!

Most of my buddies concur that our wives’ grandma genes are way stronger than our grandad genes.

Do what you do do well!!

I’ve figured out why we get insomnia so bad as we age: it’s so we can much more easily get up in the middle of the night and help the new mom with the baby. She feeds it, we change and burp it so she can go get some much-needed rest. My late MIL was amazing that way.

If only our children planned to ever have children.

And be around to watch him all the time apparently.

Grandchildren are nature’s compensation for the indignities of aging!

At least you have grandkids. My two adult kids one with a man not married, other son loaner.

What can possibly be better then Grandma’s freshly baked cookies?

I don’t know how many times my grandmother used to discreetly slip money into my hand and then say, “Don’t tell your mother.” She loved spoiling me.