This is first grade stuff. The distance from B to C is 5 inches, and if it’s twice as far from A to C, then the answer is 10 inches. Calvin’s just too stupid (or lazy) to do simple math.
Yeah. Dad lives in the real world. Everyone else does, and so should Calvin. I mean, you’d think a kid would learn the difference between fantasy and reality.
Calvin: Fantasy?! I didn’t imagine that bike attacking me!
Not quite. Quoting from the Aesop fable “The Fox and the Mask”, outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. This means that if the inner quality of something is bad, the outer quality is no good either.
Future Calvin: “How come you live in this house with Mom instead of an apartment with several scantily-clad female roommates?” What kind of a question is that to ask at your age?
Calvin: I dunno.
Future Calvin: (thinking) And to think, I was once this little rapscallion.
Calvin: (thinking) Am I really gonna grow up to be this guy?
Homemade bombs? What was he planning to do, blow the house up?