Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 24, 2019

How about an assignment of when you cost your parents a lot of money? You’ll have no problem coming up with stories then.

Is this set after the founding of GROSS?

The schools need to realize that not everyone gets out a lot.

What about Spaceman Spiff? Imaginary, I know; but so what? a la the Orangeman’s attorney, ol’ what’s his name.

The car incident sounds more like a misadventure than an adventure.

What about the time he flew a jet fighter and blew up the school? I’m sure the school psychologist would love to read about that one!

How about putting him on some serious meds. instead!!

With all the trouble he’s been in, you can find plenty of adventures.

What about the time you decked Susie with a snowball and she got up and plowed you under?

There was the Noodle Incident that no one talks about.

It could have been an adventure for his dad as he dived in head-first to grab the emergency brake. I remember when an Olympic gymnast said that she was going to write her autobiography. Teenagers haven’t done that much yet, so it could be a rather short autobiography.

Try any of your sledding adventures, Calvin!

What about the time they went to Mars? Or just the other day when Calvin was attacked by Zogwargs? How can he say his life is boring?

I can see his point. He hasn’t had any real life adventures. All the ones he’s had are in his wild imagination. However, he could write about the camping trips his family goes on… :D

This kid has had more adventures than most adults, if not in his life, in his imagination. You’d think Calvin would have no trouble coming up with something.

Just wing it, Stupendous Man!

Maybe his live would be more interesting if he got bitten by a radioactive spider.

When I was stationed in Massachusetts, I was a member of the aero club. Flying was affordable then.There was a small airport about 15 minutes flying time away in Tewskbury next to a McDonald’s. So on a couple of weekends we’d pack the kids up in the back of the plane, and fly off for lunch. We’d park the plane on the grass, walk through the gate into the parking lot, get our Big Macs and sit on the picnic bench outside and watch other airplanes try to land.

The following school year the boys were given an assignment to write about something exciting that they did and one of my sons chose this event and how he flew to McDonald’s for lunch. The teacher called us in and explained that although the assignment was well written, she told them it had to be on something they really did and was concerned that my son might have difficulty separating fantasy from reality. She just shook her head when we explained that it was “for real.”

There’s always ‘the noodle incident’ but that could be more of a confession.

I guess adventures are in the eyes of the beholder.

What about those suicide runs on the sled?

CALVINjust you being you shouldbe an adventure!!!

Did the same from an aero club at an AFB in IL bask in the dark ages. Questions I got generally dealt with how a C-172 could escape the vacuum.

Our lives can be as adventurous as we want them to be. Whatever you do just be fully alive while doing it. Adventure is sure to follow!

Gosh, if only Calvin’s grandfather was Rick Smith!

We used to take the boys on camping trips during the summer. One year we went up north and took a couple of days to visit D.C. That following school year the teacher was talking about Arlington National Cemetery when our son blurted out that he had been there. The teacher called him a liar in front of the class. He then described the ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier so she backed down but never apologized.

This and other incidents like it is why I have a problem with public school teachers. Nobody is perfect but school teachers get a little too critical of their students and the parents.

Adventures are the disasters you survive.

Shades of Ferris Beuhler’s Day Off!

Calvin has an adventure in his mind quite often

This is why this comic ruled the funny pages at one time. :-D

You mean ONTO the highway… getting on the highway is not correct. He was talking about getting ONTO the highway. Why do we miss this correct grammar these days. IN vs INTO, etc.

For Calvin, it’s more likely Misadventures

yes, Calvin. That wasn’t an adventure, since ur mom wasn’t mad.