Back at the time of this strip’s first showing, I paid my boys $1/pound for pulling weeds for me. They were quite enthusiastic. My caveat was that they had to shake out of clods of dirt from the roots before the weigh-in. They still made plenty of pocket money for the next day’s outing.
When I was 10ish my mother had a front yard that was unremitting xeriscape (before the word, in New Mexico) but on a pretty good slope. She wanted to put in dozens of iris to be watered by slightly sloping canals crossing the main slope. But there were a lot of tumbleweeds. The next spring, when the TWs were an inch or two high, she offered a bounty of one penny for every 10 TW sprouts we brought in. I made more than $5 over the next couple of weeks. Compared to my allowance of about 50¢ or 55¢ per week (I don’t recall exactly which year it was) that was serious money! My sibs also participated, but not so conscientiously.
It would only be a dollar between them. Dad would not pay them a dollar each as he would think that Hobbes is a stuffed doll who cannot work. As we often see, Hobbes usually does more work than Calvin.
A couple of years later, with Photoshop, during that short time when it was readily available to anyone with an internet connection, yet just new enough that most people didn’t know about it, he would’ve made a fortune.
sounds like a lot of people these days who “can’t find a job” — on the other hand it also sounds like a lot of employers who think paying slaves anything is too much.
codycab 4 months ago
Listening to Dad builds character.
Spacehog 4 months ago
Of course Calvin does not want the money that bad because he does not want to work
M2MM 4 months ago
Back at the time of this strip’s first showing, I paid my boys $1/pound for pulling weeds for me. They were quite enthusiastic. My caveat was that they had to shake out of clods of dirt from the roots before the weigh-in. They still made plenty of pocket money for the next day’s outing.
ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ 4 months ago
Dad’s no fun
you should go let the air out of his bicycle tires
Mediatech 4 months ago
If they pull all the weeds out of the sidewalk, what will the dinosaurs eat?
BigDaveGlass 4 months ago
Well, that plan went extinct………….
snsurone76 4 months ago
I wonder where Calvin got his models. Dad is too cheap to buy him any toys—especially a stuffed tiger named Hobbes!
Concretionist 4 months ago
When I was 10ish my mother had a front yard that was unremitting xeriscape (before the word, in New Mexico) but on a pretty good slope. She wanted to put in dozens of iris to be watered by slightly sloping canals crossing the main slope. But there were a lot of tumbleweeds. The next spring, when the TWs were an inch or two high, she offered a bounty of one penny for every 10 TW sprouts we brought in. I made more than $5 over the next couple of weeks. Compared to my allowance of about 50¢ or 55¢ per week (I don’t recall exactly which year it was) that was serious money! My sibs also participated, but not so conscientiously.
Calvinist1966 4 months ago
It would only be a dollar between them. Dad would not pay them a dollar each as he would think that Hobbes is a stuffed doll who cannot work. As we often see, Hobbes usually does more work than Calvin.
Izzy Moreno 4 months ago
Once again, Calvin is ahead of his time.
A couple of years later, with Photoshop, during that short time when it was readily available to anyone with an internet connection, yet just new enough that most people didn’t know about it, he would’ve made a fortune.
sandpiper 4 months ago
That’s Cal. Adjusting his expectations to fit the crime.
dflak 4 months ago
Calvin sufferers from Beetle Bailey syndrome – putting more effort into avoiding work than it takes to do it.
SquidGamerGal 4 months ago
I know this is hard to accept, Calvin. But real life is like the cartoons. Nobody is gullible and stupid.
tcmrr1 4 months ago
Ahh, My father’s economics comment. I want it, but not that bad. Called it price theory.
Just-me 4 months ago
It could be worse Calvin. You could be made to pull the weeds and not paid a dollar.
rshive 4 months ago
Well Calvin, you’ll have to do something to get some of that money.
MEPace 4 months ago
In my area, Calvin sounds like white Americans during the Great Recession when offered farm work.
mindjob 4 months ago
The kids on our street really did make a movie with their plastic dinosaurs. Nobody paid them, but they were artists who didn’t sell out.
locake 4 months ago
Hobbes seems confused. I guess the imaginary tiger did see the imaginary dinosaurs. Too much imagination for me.
wiley207 4 months ago
Of course Hobbes would be confused, especially since he was in a photo with one of the dinosaurs!
curtlyon19 4 months ago
been there
g04922 4 months ago
I said it was stuffed animal Dinosaurs… guess plastic toys work too. Calvin is a real mess ;)
Otis Rufus Driftwood 4 months ago
And yet he went to all that trouble for a bigger payday with his dinosaur pictures. Go figure.
Bilan 4 months ago
This proves that I was right all along. Calvin never did make snacks for the trip!
old_geek 4 months ago
Many don’t want the money that bad…
KEA 4 months ago
sounds like a lot of people these days who “can’t find a job” — on the other hand it also sounds like a lot of employers who think paying slaves anything is too much.
eced52 4 months ago
Should have negotiated.
Strawberry King 4 months ago
Some kids get paid less to pull the weeds, I’m sure.