Pickles by Brian Crane for June 07, 2023

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    allen@home  over 1 year ago

    You can remember where the dishes go, Earl. Only if you want to remember.

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    baraktorvan  over 1 year ago

    My husband, ever the loving man, always has to ask me where the baking dishes and dodads go. I laugh because they go in the same places they have resided for 12 years now!

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    carlsonbob  over 1 year ago

    Then she complains when he doesn’t help.

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    Ratkin Premium Member over 1 year ago

    After 20 or 30 years of our silverware being organized in the same place, my wife up and rearranged them. Then I rearranged them some more. We agreed afterward that the new arrangement is better. So why didn’t we do that 30 years ago?

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    Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Why do we have so many stupid dishes?

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    Zykoic  over 1 year ago

    The Tupperware search and cuss really annoys me.

    Burp it?

    I’m going to strangle it!

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    Cat Next Door  over 1 year ago

    Opal only has herself to blame. She’s done a lousy job of training Earl.

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    j_m_kuehl  over 1 year ago

    Opal should be happy you get them back to the kitchen.

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    eced52  over 1 year ago

    I live alone and even I can’t remember where they all go. Hence the inability to locate them when I need them.

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    iggyman  over 1 year ago

    Unfortunately I know where they all go, but the Tupperware that’s a different story!

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    Doug K  over 1 year ago

    Sometimes you have to put them in the wrong place “on purpose” to test to see if your spouse notices.

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    bigger Nate  over 1 year ago

    I’m 70+ live alone and still don’t know

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    trainnut1956  over 1 year ago

    The proper response is “For God’s sake, woman, do you want me to help in the kitchen or not?”

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    Frank Salem Premium Member over 1 year ago

    This is nothing compared to trying to put a dish in the dishwasher.

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    bmckee  over 1 year ago

    Unless, of course, you live alone. Then again, if you have relatives who house sit for you, they’ll put everything where they think it should be. And don’t even get me started on housekeepers. You’re better off being married.

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    More Coffee Please! Premium Member over 1 year ago

    He’s got a point there.

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    morningglory73 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Just open your eyes Earl and look.

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    It’s her way or no way, Earl! Capische?

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    sandpiper  over 1 year ago

    Just one of the ‘little’ memory tests that husbands must pass from time to time.

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    Fishenguy Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My wife cooks, I do the dishes and put them away. I’m fine until she uses some utensil that I haven’t seen in months.

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    ObiJoan  over 1 year ago

    Guess who is changing placements all the time?

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    jagedlo  over 1 year ago

    Great, now Earl has to correct his bowl movements…

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    morningglory73 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    It isn’t rocket science Earl. The bowls go with the bowls, the plates go with the other plates and so on. Earl? Are you listening? (probably not)

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    ANIMAL  over 1 year ago

    Maybe stop helping in the kitchen.????

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    ThreeDogDad Premium Member over 1 year ago

    If Earl had a copy of “The Wife’s Field Guide to North American Bowls” he would have known that “that bowl” is never found in “that cupboard” with “those other bowls” but is always found in “that other cupboard” with “those bowls”.

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    jango  over 1 year ago

    After reading the comments here today i conclude that loading the dishwasher and putting away the dishes are tasks that belong in the Venus vs Mars conundrum

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    walt1968pat Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And if you do learn, they’ll get rearranged.

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I totally agree with Earl, I have no idea where most anything in the kitchen is as that is my wife of 49 years domain. The only thing I am allowed to do is make coffee, using the Keurig she got me for my Birthday several years ago. OTOH our 3 daughters aren’t the same. Our youngest daughter claims she is a bad cook(she isn’t) so her husband does all the cooking, the twins(one lives in SoCal, the other in MI) share the kitchen chores with their husbands.

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    MeGoNow Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My mother was about 5’10". Her mother was like 4-foot nothing. She would come to help out when grandkids were born. Took weeks to find everything where she’d stashed in bottom cabinets.

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    kaycstamper  over 1 year ago

    I’ve learned to put away my own dishes. Otherwise you can never find them!

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    Bookworm  over 1 year ago

    Since I’m old and I live alone, I find the “out of sight, out of mind” principle to be the most applicable in most situations. As long as I stay out of sight, nobody minds. 8>)

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    davanden  over 1 year ago

    This strip continues to be ageist and sexist.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    When my late husband used to put the dishes away, anything he wasn’t sure of lived on the counter until I put it away.

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    1953Baby  over 1 year ago

    OMG! My li’l sis just gave me a tongue lashing because I put a glass in the wrong place. . .sigh. . .she’s in charge of clean-up and I’m in charge of cooking. . .not a tongue-lashing actually, more like a snort and long-drawn out sigh. . .she’s pretty reasonable most of the time, but when it comes to loading the dishwasher and putting the dishes away she becomes a tyrant. . .thanks for letting me share!

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    moondog42 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Wow, after reading this comic for decades I’m struck by the notion that Earl may actually be a bad husband if he doesn’t know where the dishes go

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    halvincobbes Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Oddest thing – my husband seems to know where to find everything in the kitchen but is unable to put anything away. Go figure.

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    whelan_jj  over 1 year ago

    My dad had a technique which he passed on to his sons (Me, for example). If you don’t know where the dishes go you’re less likely to be asked to wash them. As a general technique not knowing how to do things properly is good for avoiding a lot of household chores.

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    DatsunMan  over 1 year ago

    Do you say cup-board or cuh-board? cuh-board for me.

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    whelan_jj  over 1 year ago

    I’m the “organizer” in the family so I have to tell my wife where the dishes go.

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    TMMILLER Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Only because Mrs never puts anything away in the same place twice in a row!

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    zeexenon  over 1 year ago

    A couple of weeks later: “Opal, where is my favorite bowl?”

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    kk2840  over 1 year ago

    No. NO ONE can remember where all the dishes go!

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    cubswin2016  over 1 year ago

    Why does it even matter?

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    syzygy47  over 1 year ago

    I have no issue with the actual dishes, cups and pots’n’pans. It’s those random plastic containers that don’t nest or match that’s an issue.

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    ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago

    As if Earl wasn’t in enough trouble over the bowl, wait until Opal catches him teaching Nelson to sit on the chair arms!!!

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    dlaemmerhirt999  over 1 year ago

    I’m a FACIST when it comes to my family’s kitchen. As the adult son, it TICKS my poor mom off!XD

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    tammyspeakslife Premium Member over 1 year ago

    “Thanks for trying Earl” :))

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    David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs  over 1 year ago

    They stay confused, unable to decide for years at my house.

    Just sitting and sitting and sitting and….

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    emftoots still causing mischief Premium Member over 1 year ago

    When I go to my daughters to pet sit or grandson sit, there are always some dishes or glasses I cant find an obvious home for LOL. I end up putting them with similar stuff.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 1 year ago

    All in all Earl life will go on……

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    gafrad  over 1 year ago

    I agree. And if you ever do figure it out, someone will re-organize the next day.

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    rob  over 1 year ago

    And don’t you dare dry your hands on those decorative towels in the bathroom.

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    dogday Premium Member over 1 year ago

    “To every bowl, turn, turn, turn, there is a cupboard, turn, turn, turn, and a shelf for every saucer in the kitchen.” With apologies to both The Byrds and King Solomon.

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    Ukko wilko  over 1 year ago

    Then, YOU put them where YOU want them.

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 1 year ago

    True.

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    Jack Bell Premium Member over 1 year ago

    My wife and I both know where everything goes. It’s when our daughters or other family members help that we loose things.

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