Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 12, 2015
Transcript:
Calvin: Mom, I need to collect leaves for a school project. Could we go to the arboretum sometime? Mom: Sure. How about this weekend? Calvin: Um, it would be better to do it a little sooner. Mom: When is it due? Calvin: Well, my notebook's in the car and the park closes in 20 minutes. Mom: Calvin, I'm fixing dinner!
BE THIS GUY about 9 years ago
“We can pick up something to eat from the drive thru when we are coming back from the park.”
SwagMasterComicGirl about 9 years ago
yep ^ |
dpaksundar about 9 years ago
SO, two weeks gone and the assignment is due tomorrow?
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 9 years ago
That’s my boy!
Kind&Kinder about 9 years ago
If only this would teach him a lesson….
PanosP about 9 years ago
I think Calvin is preparing full well for adult life: preparing everything on time is boring, while the last minute provides excitement and increases productivity. Notice the subtle approach to mom…!
GROG Premium Member about 9 years ago
To think I used to be that way.
artzilla about 9 years ago
This part of Calvin reminds me of myself now, just a little too closely for comfort.
llong65 about 9 years ago
this is so much like my grandson with his school assignments.
rentier about 9 years ago
It’s nearly too late for doing the work and you disturbe your Mom!!
Charlie Fogwhistle about 9 years ago
Funny how coasting down an ever steepening hill ends up with a brief moment of realization based terror just before the crash.
bluram about 9 years ago
What more can we expect out of a career first grader?
cubswin2016 about 9 years ago
Calvin wouldn’t do this if he got a spanking once in a while.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 about 9 years ago
I would’ve been up the Creek without a Paddle, and the Canoe would’ve had a major hole in it, if I had pulled that on My Mom! Will Calvin’s Mom bail him out?
Marty241 about 9 years ago
1) Let him fail the assignment, 2) ask Miss Wormwood to call Mom with daily homework assignment 3) teach Calvin’s parents how to be parents.
Susie Derkins :D about 9 years ago
20 minutes? That’s how long it takes for a pizza to be checked on.
locake about 9 years ago
Just send him outside. There are lots of trees around.
JP Steve Premium Member about 9 years ago
Calvin is a bird watcher?
yangeldf about 9 years ago
actually, some of this mess is on Calvin’s parents. When I was his age my mom made sure she knew what homework I was assigned so I could do it, this project has been on Calvin’s table for a month and his parents didn’t know anything about it. Given Calvin’s habits of shirking responsibility and not doing assignments they really should be in the habit of taking a look at Calvin’s books when he gets home to make sure he does his assignments.
Number Three about 9 years ago
Well, I’m sorry to say this but it’s his own fault if Miss Wormwood comes up with her most severe punishment.
Which will be?
Stay tuned.
xxx
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly about 9 years ago
The mother needs to get her priorities in order! The child’s life is of much greater importance then a mere meal!
JP Steve Premium Member about 9 years ago
I guess I’m being even more obscure than usual! Pishing is a technique fir attracting small birds. (I used to watch a Canadian birdwatching program “Twits and Pishers.”)
ACTIVIST1234 about 9 years ago
Mom: Lack of planning on your part does not make for an emergency on my part..Calvin: Where is the colored construction paper?
skunky1960 about 9 years ago
Oh, and I need 4 dozens cookies for school tomorrow…
neverenoughgold about 9 years ago
Time flies even faster when you are wasting it…
Timothy Henness about 9 years ago
“But Miss Wormwood, my Mom wouldn’t let me do it!”
newpakua about 9 years ago
Don’t hurry up Calvin.
zeeny about 9 years ago
me too!!! i was the same!!! i guess we’ve all been calvin once!!! pushing our parents to work “under-pressure” to finish “our” project..
bmonk about 9 years ago
You can go out around the block after dinner!