Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 17, 2017

Dad better promise Mom a week at first class resort if he wants to save this marriage.

Now Dad can check how much character they have built.

I’m with Mom. It’s a wonder they didn’t all catch pneumonia.

Once we went to the beach and a one day storm warning turned into ongoing 50-80 mph howling winds. After 2 days we called off our week at the beach and headed home amidst fallen branches and trees. Lesson: You have to know when to call it quits. Hopefully we are smarter than dad. (However, our lives are not as comic strip funny.)

What was Dad supposed to do? It’s not like he has control over the weather, so how was that his fault? He was the only one who was willing to not let it spoil his vacation, while all Mom and Calvin did (and are STILL doing) was complain about it and blame Dad, including threatening divorce. To borrow a word from the Great Divider … SAD!

“Calvin! Shut up, sit back and buckle up!!”

Dad should be happy to finally be able to see out of his glasses. And I still love the floating car. George Jetson would too.

I think Mom’s body language in the last panel says it all.

And who would you call as co- respondent, God?

Whimper, whine, whatever you need to do, get over it, learn from it AND move forward

Once a little time has passed, you have the whole rest of your to have fun talking about how terrible a trip like this trip was.

I went camping once with some friends and it rained. They slept in the tent; I slept in the car! I hate camping. All my friends went camping, so I went too because I would have rather been miserable than lonely.

Also, something tells me they didn’t catch any fish.

As my Ukrainian friend says, `Whatever does not kill us makes us stronger!`

I was raised in Minnesota and most every summer, in my youth, we camp in the ‘Arrowhead’ part of the state. The experiences were quite similar to Calvin’s with the rain and all, so I’ve been there. Something for the ‘Dad prosecutors’ to consider:1) Young couples w/ their first child usually don’t make a lot of money, so this may be all they can afford.2) Dad had to schedule his vacation time at least a month in advance and, probably, earlier.3) Only God controls the weather.

Yeah, they should have left earlier, but this is a comic strip so blame the author, not Dad. When I look back on my experiences, they weren’t all that bad, but they weren’t great, either. I love my Dad because he tried to give me a wonderful experience growing up, but most of all, I love my Mom because she was a trooper, making the best out of a difficult situation. She wasn’t a whiner, complaining about situations none of us had any control over.

I would totally agree. Divorce it is.. …..and she gets the kid!

Happy not me and I be like mom, if dad was smarter packed up gone elsewhere make family happy. I would been miserable.

I love his parents relationship. They can yell and be mad at each other without fear.

Divorce, hell. This is grounds for justifiable homicide.

Oh, so they went to the Camp Grounds For Divorce!