Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 14, 2023

And Calvin is still batting .000

I don’t want to go home.

Did Calvin also not want to enjoy lunch and recess?

On the plus side, Hobbes didn’t pounce on Calvin coming home.

He foretells his own future!!!

But that was only eight innings.

Happiness comes from wanting what we get.

“Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?”

Even at my age, I still say those first three things every weekday.

He will know how a working person feels like.

I’m with Calvin. I’m GLAD my days as a public school boot licker are LONG past me!

Good news, Calvin! We get to do it tomorrow all over again …. and again… for the rest of our lives!

I remember feeling this way at times during elementary school. It depended on my teacher’s attitude and how boring or interesting the topic was. Strangely enough, my mother could sympathize, as she hated school as a child.

“Just don’t tell me that you love me, because I don’ wanna know.”

Broadway musicals start with an “I want” song, but this is an “I don’t want” song, by REO Speedwagon.

I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys ‘r’ Us Kid…

From Peter Pan (I think:) “I’ll NEVER grow up, NEVER grow up, NEVER grow up!”

Real

And just before bedtime: “I don’t want to go to sleep!”

…as he lies through his teeth! ☺️

Is it just me, or is gocomics.com being a butthead to everyone and refusing to bring up today’s strip of each comic directly and making us see yesterday first and using the > to get to today. Clicks count must be down. I wonder why.

AsThe World, I don’t recall ASKING you what you wanted….

30 years later, same song, different verse.

Misery loves company and some people love it back.

I won’t grow upI don’t wanna go to schoolJust to learn to be a puppetAnd recite a silly rule

Calvin plays Calvinball. How would he know what a no hitter is?

Know the feeling, Cal. Hang in there. It will change.

Does he even want to bang on his drum all day?

Aww…. Calvin needs Hobbes about not.

I have that mood once in awhile, but go forward with reluctance.

But did you also get undressed on the pitcher’s mound by the scorched line drive?

No runs no drips no errors

At an early age I learned the secret of nurturing enthusiasm. When presented with an unwelcome task I would ask myself, “how would I go about this if I liked to do it and needed to get it done quickly?”. Often, the “fake enthusiasm” would get me into the interesting part of the lesson and I would do independent study on it.

My mother encouraged this kind of thinking with a rule that depended on my love of reading. For every five fiction books (pirates, space aliens, Hardy boys) I had to read three non-fiction books. THAT is how I got most of my education. Schools just provide a basic framework for learning.

Today, I don’t see how parents could regulate reading in that manner. Sad, in a way.

This is my younger sister every day.

SWING BATTER!

me at school be like

It’s like a follow-up to that strip from three months ago with Calvin’s day about “up,” except by the end of the day he’s certainly not looking up! In that last panel, that’s pretty much what it’s like coming home from work and not making a single green traffic light, having to stop at all red lights…

He’s just not a wanna-be.

I don’t want to get up. I don’t want to get dressed. I don’t want to get in the carpool. I don’t want to go to work. I don’t want to listen to the boss. I don’t want to work. I don’t want any performance reviews. I don’t want to take work home with me.

Good practice for when you are an adult, Calvin.

This. This was the day I had today. Somehow it’s a lot funnier in comic form.

But yet he still made it safe at home!