Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 28, 2024

Sometimes you just need an escape from it all.

Or wake up early to watch cartoons.

What? And miss the cartoons on TV??

Me too. But then, I’ve always been a night owl. Heck, I’m reading this at 1:20 am.

The day is so full of promise unburdened by what was planned

If only you could take an underground passage to school so you wouldn’t know what you were missing!

Sounds good to me. Better that than the mind numbing forum that is school.

Nevermind. You have the welcome home from Hobbes to look forward to.

Me was always hates to goes to steenky school too. Sunny days, rainy days, gloomy days. Whatever days may it be. Schools is for steenky fishies.

You is lucky to haves a bus for school kid. Me was has to walks all the way uphill both ways.

I feel the same way about work.

“The Days Are Just Packed”.

Wow — that makes sense!

Listen carefully to what Hobbes just said, Calvin. That is what retirement is like! :0)

A good morning or sleep. A coin flip. But whichever, Cal would not be either enjoying the good morning or sleeping. He’d be up to something tricky.

if he’s gonna ruin a perfectly good day, he’s gonna be doing it by his terms. :J

Productive day?

Why waste a brisk fall day, Calvin?

He takes that stupid stuffed animal to school?

Yeah, I’m with Calvin on this one.

Me too!

Calvin has his priorities right.

Always have loved the Calvin perspective of early elementary school. Hated having to go to school, riding the bus, getting bossed around. It set me up for a life of hating bullies (they paid for it). Got over it on my 2nd week of retirement and now I’m even a better version of myself. Never go shopping when I’m in a hurry is the 1st rule…

Sorry. I have to disagree. One of the few cases where he gets the child psychology wrong.

No six year old boy ever wants to sleep. Or take a nap. They will find it with their last ounce of strength.

The indisputable guiding line for when you become an adult is when taking a nap becomes a reward, not a punishment.

The older I get, the more I prefer sleep over going out on a nice day

Me too. When I was in fourth grade or so I wasted a lot of time trying to remember the last time I woke up feeling refreshed. All I could remember eas that it was before kindergarten.

At his age, I suspect not.

“Early to bed and early to rise…”

Yep.