Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 31, 2013

Lmfao!! I am not a control freak even though I want to be

And boy are they smug while they are at it

That’s right, Dad!

Looks like Calvin was scribbling on the furniture again.

hail to calvin’s Dad!

A bit sarky is our Cal !

Bumper sticker I saw once: “It’s a Control Freak Thing I Won’t Let You Understand.”

The secret to being a successful CF is stay in the background (as much a possible) and let other’s think everything is their idea.

Everything will be fine if people will just so as I say.

I can testify to that. (I’m a first-born.)

The answer is … Yes and Yes.

Dad certainly has little control over Calvin….

My experience of a control freak is someone who gets in the way of people who are doing their jobs, tells them how they really ought to be doing it, thereby wasting time and effectiveness.

Please accept my humbled reverence Your Anal Retentiveness.

Give your father a kiss, he is your very best Dad!!

sorry Cal…wrong gender.

the new term for control freak is micromanager. because paradigm shifts, and low hanging fruit and proactive and more business buzz words.

Ah yes. We can do A or B or C. Take your choice. But I won’t accept A or B.

I learned to hire competent people, give them a job,then LEAVE THEM ALONE TO DO IT. If they have aquestion,answer it, then continue leaving them alone.

Hmmm…Calvin is first-born..just sayin’

I can certainly relate to dad, especially as it related to those group projects in University.

My question is: Is Calvin being serious or sarcastic?

Or, as I tell my wife, you can tell me what to do, or how to do it, but not both.

I like to control those things I can actually do something about. Everything else is somebody else’s problem and they can deal with it.

So Calvin’s Dad meant its what Democrats call Republicans.

I am a freak of all types!

Whoopsie!!! Previous intended comment deleted before submission because I don’t know who may see it, or who could tell on me.

I never met a true control freak that didn’t have deep insecurities they were trying to hide. I would also note that there is a difference between people who are very diligent in their work and actual control freaks. Being a control freak is nothing to be proud of.

Is this what some here are describing…?

the best Dad in the world …………

I work for a control freak, trouble is, he does not know his arse from a hole in the ground. What’s more, he thinks that beans and frijoles are different things.

I could be a control freak if I didn’t have such tight control over the urge.

Andrew6385 (2 days ago),If you don’t understand, or won’t accept, my explanation about “the circle of the earth”, any discussion on other points or issues would be “vanity”. If your mind is made up, nothing will change it.

Calvin’s dad’s explanation… actually seems to make sense. And it’s quite relevant today, what with all our imports…

Actually, I have to disagree with Calvin’s dad on this one. If anything works in this world, it’s bc GOD took charge.

yet NASA still gets off the ground

In the military, they learn in most wars that control freaks are too busy getting in other people’s ways and telling them how to do their job to do their own job. It works best when the higher ups tell their subordinates what they need to do, and then let them do it.

Dad’s ‘Know-It-All’ face in the 2nd panel is really making me laugh.

LOL xxx

..look over your shoulder....breath down your neck....watch you eat your food....itis..

“Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

Dwight Eisenhower

I am not a control freak.. Things just work better when people do as I… ask.. And not argue with me… See not a control freak.. I… ask in a very demanding way.. A control freak does not ask.. I… Ask.. You agree… RIGHT.

Actually control freaks not that bad. I used to work around some control freaks one was so much in control I could finish his paperwork with my eyes closed, saved a lot of time.

People are called control freaks just because they want something done correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_freak

Sounds just like what my father would say. See also: perfectionist.

In twin births, that’s usually just the opposite. In the mother’s body, the fetuses grow one above the other. The “top” fetus develops a more assertive demeanor in its relationship with the “bottom” sibling. The lower sibling will be born first, but will be deferent to the second-born, as that was the relationship that was developed during gestation. The second-born will be the first to go into strange places and explore, or get into trouble — a more alpha personality compared to the first-born. Cool, no?