Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 01, 2021

And don’t forget to get something from the soda fountain.

Do people still call pharmacies drug stores nowadays, since the word “drug” has a different connotation today?

Obviously Calvin needs a strict D.A.R.E class.

I remember getting different flavored cokes at the soda fountain…..

In panel #3 the idea of success for a 6-year-old boy is condensed. And Hobbes seems to agree.

Hobbes, for one, needs no stinking sarcasm font. Great punch line that goes right over the main character’s head.

Calvin would agree that school is the one place that will NEVER be the right place.

Calvin’s plan for success is priceless. Good, solid six-year-old reasoning. He hears the adults say “right place, right time” a couple of times. It sticks. How to do it? The supply of places is far more limited than the supply of time, so rather than being ready for it at all times, let’s just pick a place. With all the possible combinations of time and place, and assuming that literally every moment there exists a place that, were you there, success would be yours, then your best, and certainly easiest, option is to stake out a place and spend as much time there as possible. Eventually, success has to swing by and you maximize the odds that you will be there when it does. Needless to say, the Place-To-Be could just as easily be directly in front of the TV at your house.

Be a lot safer than what you’e doing now….

Yes

Success = Opportunity + Preparation

Being at the right place at the right time with the wrong stuff doesn’t do you any good.

Success = Opportunity + Preparation

Nah, success is having someone else do hard work, then pretending like you did the work! (LOL)

Hmmm. I just call it Walgreens.

Sounds like something Jay and Silent Bob would do :-)

It’s a surprisingly effective strategy. It’s the only reason anyone shells out the expensive tuition to go to Harvard these days

I think Calvin may have something there. I hear people used to loiter at the corner of Hollywood and Vine in L.A. for just such a RPRT convergence.

This isn’t comic, it’s history

I never can figure out how that wagon gets across the tree branch. Comic physics I guess.

Out of the mouths of babes …

My cousin Tommy and I used to hang around the drugstore and read comic books when we were kids – back in the 40’s.

Drugstores, they start you off with comic books with the end game of selling you (prescription) drugs. Just say “no to drug…stores”.

The real key to success is being able to recognize the opportunities that present themselves before they pass you by.

If you have your face buried in a comic book (or your phone) you’ll miss them all.

“All things come to he who waits.” (Provided he’s not distracted by comic books.)

they are going to need a drugstore after falling off the cliff!

Back in the ‘40s & ’50s, the drug store might be one of the few buildings in a small town. There weren’t many places for young men, teens to hang around.So many already mentioned the soda fountains. But there were often benches in front of the store, they called those guys “Drug Store Cowboys”. (Some small towns are still like that, but they are becoming few and far between.)

Taking expressions at face value sure seems to be one of Calvin’s many “specialties!”

“What I Did On My Summer Vacation. Day One: What I Did On My Summer Vacation: I went in to town to look for a job. Then I hung out at the drug store. Day Two: I went in to town to look for a job. Then I hung out at the drug store. Day Three…”

I tried that for many years at the same place – ended up eating a LOT of donuts!

Hobbes wishes Calvin would focus on driving over philosophy.

Same here in my area of Western Washington. Drug store with a pharmacy section.

Here it is, the final new comic strip before Bill Watterson’s nine-month sabbatical (and when the new strips began again in 1992, the Sunday comics took on a bold new format that made them more visually pleasing.)

“Being with you just is one epiphany after another.”

Too bad the “right place” is relative. Otherwise, we’d all be successful.