Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 26, 2019

Why some couples have separate bedrooms.

My dad’s snore was a high-pitched whining, like a mosquito.

When I was a little kid sleeping in my parents’ room, it woke both me and my mom up and freaked us out.

Wow! He sounds just like a jake brake. How does he do that? Can I learn to do that too?

Some parents can only be comforting for so long.

snoring sounding like trucks shifting… uh-huh

My dog Sango was having a dream this morning, barking, yipping and growling all with his mouth closed. Very cute!

Once in awhile, my wife gets a snore going that sounds like a baby dinosaur with its leg caught in a trap. Entertaining for awhile, but then I go sleep on the couch.

Trucks downshifting on the highway… hilarious.

Woah

I guess downshifting is better than backfiring.

I’ll say one thing about Calvin, he doesn’t miss any words, he tells it like it is!

The bond between a boy and his tiger…

When Dad has “sound” sleep, he really means it!

Maybe that’s at least part of the reason Calvin can’t sleep!

I was married to a woman that denied that she snored. So I recorded her one night doing it.

I love how Calvin is simply a male version of his mom. :D

My ancestors come from a place where it gets very cold in the winter. Though Darwinian survival my clan developed sinuses the size of Carlsbad Caverns. It means heat loss due to breathing happens there and not in the core where the lungs are.

The result is that my snores are not measured in decibels; they are measured using the Richter scale.Also my sneezes are epic. I can set off a car alarm at 100 paces.

I grew up in southern California, very close to a hill on a major highway that became a freeway. The sound of jake-braking trucks was my lullaby.

Could have been trucks downshifting. When we moved from “town” to the “suburbs”, we had trouble getting to sleep for a while because of the lack of background noise. We had been on a hill on the main highway through town.

Tigers are very comforting, huh?

…I believe it.

I knew I snored, but I jokingly denied it. Until… the kitty in my avatar photo had enough of my snoring and stuck his paw in my mouth to make it stop. I have now corrected my snoring.

She’s a supermom, all right.

When my parents were alive, my dad claimed her never snored, my mom proved her point and recorded him, then played to his uncle, dad was so mad. With my husband working long hours I tell him to go to bed and I wait over an hour then turn in. I read a book. When traveling on vacation I just suffered it out.

My snoring doesn’t bother me.

Until my wife whacks me.

Steady snoring per se isn’t all that bad. It’s the long pauses and the sudden snorts that bear checking out.

Jake Brake!

I was once told by a fellow Sergeant that I sounded like a deuce and a half (2 1/2 ton military truck) going uphill in second gear when I snored!

Sounds more like the “Jake Brake”! ;o{

Random thought… I just noticed, Calvin’s hair is blonde. His parents hair is black. Hmmm

When I was in basic training, sleeping in the barracks, I discovered I did, in fact, have the ability to go without sleep for pretty extended periods. The snoring sounded like an operating saw mill colliding with a engaged car crusher during a boulder landslide, only noisier.

My MIL’s snoring could keep me awake from 50 ft away through 2 closed doors. Her husband was lucky to be almost deaf.

Only Calvin could find sleeping next to a tiger comforting…

" … while applying a Jake brake."

My ex and I’s first apartment fronted a major highway through town. Two miles south there was a truck terminal. Every night the outbound trucks paraded past downshifting for the town’s only traffic light. Those were interspersed with the inbound trucks upshifting away from the light. It didn’t seem so bad on our honeymoon but once back to work… ARRRRGH!

Subtle, Calvin. I’m sure Dad would love to hear that compliment once he wakes up, too …

Made me laugh.

that’s your future, kid

Lol… true