Pickles by Brian Crane for August 10, 2024

Yeah, I was young and single. I blinked and now married for 40+ years with a granddaughter a sophomore in college.

I blinked. Wow. Where did my joints go? Where did my hair go? Where did my belly come from?…

Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink, and you’re dead. (Doctor Who, best episode.)

Never in a million years thought I’d end up in a retirement residence, even if it is ‘independent living’ (translation: you do your own cooking and figure out transportation if you can’t drive…)

I’m trying to seldom breathe. It’s working, the blackouts make the day longer.

Thanks for that explanation Opal. It makes as much sense as anything else.

Some hold that as children we are further from the event horizon and so time is dilated. As we age we become closer to said horizon, time constricts. However, people who hold these, ideas tend to be quite silly and deluded, and often run for political office.

The human brain really has no concept of time. The past of 1 year is the same as 60. When you are young you only have a few years that you can look back on and therefore judge how long that took. When you look back at 60 years it feels no different, but your logic says that it is a long time, so it must have “flown by”.

blah, blah, blah⠄⠄⠄

these two haven’t aged a day in nearly 45 years

70 seemed so old when I was 21!

You folks might want to listen to Casey Beathard’s song “Don’t Blink”

Don’t blink, just like that you’re six years oldAnd you take a napAnd you wake up and you’re twenty-fiveAnd your high school sweetheart becomes your wife

Don’t blink, you just might missYour babies growing like mine didTurning into moms and dadsNext thing you know your better halfOf fifty years is there in bedAnd you’re praying God takes you instead

Trust me friend a hundred yearsGoes faster than you think, so don’t blink

Using cerebral math skills no longer practiced

I’m 75. I can relate.

You got that right, Earl!

I’ve read that time seems to move faster when you have no new experiences because you are making no new memories.

Why are they using a table cloth? Green padded dining chairs?

This strip is 18 years old so factor that in.

Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.

Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink.

The years go by, as quickly as a wink——-

Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think!

(Enjoy yourself" —Louis Prima and Keeley Smith)

Nothing slows time more than waiting for the first butternut squash to ripen, except maybe figs.

Can we explore Opal’s math? Or am I missing that that is part of the joke?

I had a friend in his eighties who used to say that he knew people who wouldn’t even buy green bananas. (Cause they might not live till they ripened).

My children are in their late fifties and early sixties. I was that age just last week.

Opal’s fractured fractions

I’ve caught that disease………yesterday, it was June 1st.

We like to call that a picosecond.

Opal failed math in school.

I blinked on my honeymoon and landed on my 30th anniversary.

True.

EXACTLY……. now ENJOY your dinner, and STOP worrying.!!!! ( LOL )

Wow, Opal is getting brainy all of a sudden.

The Time all went to Cincinnati….

That’s absolutely true about how we sense time passage. It’s scary, but you can’t think about it too long!

Just so we don’t run out of chocolate chip cookies and cake.

My oldest grandson is almost as old as I was when I met his grandmother (and taller than I was then!)

i had a pilot license for years- i am at the age now where i find myself to be on final approach! hope the runway is long enough!

Makes sense!

You don’t even dare blink…lest the eyes close permanently.

AFAIC it boils down to looking forward instead of looking back

anticipation and participation will always seem longer than the memory of the experience

For many of us guys of a certain age I offer this alliterative lament: We’ve been tickled under the testiclés by the tempestuous touch of time!

I don’t mind getting old. I just wish it took longer.

Finally! Someone gets it right!!! Thank you Brian. I’ve been arguing this for years. It’s a matter of comparative perception.

I’m at middle age. I may blink less often now.

Earl is right

Never thought of that but yes pickles that make sense

I wrote a college paper on exactly that concept!!