Pickles by Brian Crane for April 13, 2024

So, the one time Earl is helping out, and Opal is complaining?

Oh, what a world

Agree, I think almost every service made us do that in basic training, you only get so much space! (Army, Navy, AF etc)

I’ve never heard that before—is Earl ahead of the internet?

Being in a long term marriage allows you to find what annoys your spouse, then using it strategically.

I never imagined I’d be getting useful household tips from Earl!

Tradition versus forward thinking.

Forward thinking is a traditional thing.

When I was a bachelor I had two piles of clothes and towels. One dirty, one washed.

I just wad everything up and throw it in a drawer.

Argh! I have never liked “tradition” as the answer to why people do something. My response is: “It used to be traditional to kill the first-born; you were the first-born, right?” To date, only two people to whom I’ve said that have gotten the joke.

Well, now that Opal has started singing the score of Fiddler on the Roof, will Earl follow with “If I Were a Rich Man”?

I’ve been told this but can’t get my mind around this.. (as long as you fold according to your closet dimensions like Earl was reminded yesterday). How could volume vary? Could a mathematician help me?

if I were a high-net-worth individual . . .

I do mine the traditional way!

You’re on a roll, Earl!

She’s just viewed Fiddler on the Roof. That’s Tevye’s key song

Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

“It’s tradition.” What people say when they’re getting ready to do something terrible.

I remember a story where a woman always cut off the end of a roast before cooking it. Her husband asked her why she did that and the answer was because her mom had always did it. He asked why she did it. The woman didn’t know so she called her mom. Mom replied “because it wouldn’t fit in her pan without cutting.”

That doesn’t really make sense. Think of it this way. If you place cubic-shaped items together, like boxes, they fit together tightly so there are no spaces, If you place cylinders together, there are spaces. Wasted space. But I’m only an engineer, so what do I know?

My wife rolls the towels now. I asked her why, and she replied, “ME — SEE — ON — TIKTOK! MUST — ROLL — TOWELS!”

If towels are a metaphor, Pearl just put her finger on the basis of religion.

Impossible, cubes fit mutually, rolls don’t.

Think I’m gonna roll another one. Just like the other one….Don’t bogart that joint, my friend…

Earl’s right. I roll our towels. It’s a Navy thing. More stuff into a small space.

…and now we have a musical…

Wow, Earl! I’m going to have to try that!

A hundred years of tradition, unhampered by progress.

Tradition = Peer Pressure from Dead People

Evidently, Earl is not a fiddler on the roof?

Sorry, The Mama, the Mama! Tradition! The Mama, the Mama! Tradition,! but Tevye already has the copyright.

It’s a good way to store towels if you have a lot of them. I only have a few, so they live on my towel rack.

Hand that woman a fiddle and a shawl.

We always roll our clothes that way when packing for the motorcycle trips. You can pack a lot in then saddle bags that way.

So is there an alternate solution for fitted bottom sheets, which I find absolutely impossible to neatly fold or store?

And now that Opal’s here

And so I roll my final towel

My friend I’ll make it clear

I’ll state my case, which brought a scowl

The hamper basket’s full

I folded each and every which-way

But still she’ll just get pissed

And do it HER way

Opal, shut up! Quit nitpicking

“do you love meee??”…“I suppose I dooo!”……

We roll ours as well. It does save space.

Was Opal singing a song from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’?

He’s JUST trying to be HELPful….. (sure)

Tradition….peer pressure from dead people….

I roll my towel, handtowel, washcloth sets and store them in an old-fashioned steamer trunk. They are easier to store and pull out that way.

Hard to believe Opal didn’t know Earl was a card carrying member of The Society of Towel Rollers.

We used to roll our t-shirts, socks, and towels in the Army.

I think Earl is still trying to ensure she doesn’t ask him to do anything around the house anymore.

Rolling saves space allowing the cats to have another place to sleep.

I’ve read that.

Ah, if I were a rich man…

..torments my heart.

tradition

Keeps us apart..

You find all kinds of really marginally useful ideas on the Internet. No one is going to mention how all the towels will roll off the shelf when you open the cabinet. Oh, no.

Mother & grandmother could never agree so I do things how I want!

Not only can you roll towels. When you pack your bags to go on vacation, if you roll your clothes, they fit better in the suitcase.

Oy. Let’s dance…….

okay… now I have Fiddler on the Roof playing in my head

Aunty Acid said it best aunty-acid 2024/03/23

And now I can’t get Topol out of my ear, Fiddler on the Roof, oy vey

Straight out of Fiddler on the Roof!

My daughter taught ME to roll towels,and rolling clothes, too, when packing your suitcase! Keeps them neater.

Tradition! Now I have ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ song in my head. Oy vay!