Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 01, 2019

I guess Rosalyn wasn’t available this night.

Wow the waiter isn’t even helping Calvin. Terrible customer service here.

Calvin, dont’ forget to sniff the cap from your bottle of Coke.

You can never have too much atmosphere in an expensive restaurant, Cal. It’s what your parents are paying for! Oh, and the food, too.

Anyone who takes a six-year-old boy to a place like that deserves all the aggro they get.

“……And that’s why we started advertising for a Child Minder”. You brought Rosalyn on yourself Calvin.

I find snooty places stifling too, Calvin!

I have been in places like that. I agree with Calvin here.

Silly people, when you have little kids (especially a Calvin) you cannot go to a formal dining anything!

Why didn’t his parents dress him in something besides that striped t-shirt he always wears?

Calvin does not pass for fancy.

I guess he would rather stay with Susie.

“It’s a fried telephone book. We gave it a fancy French name and you ordered it!” – a cartoon in a forgotten magazine from the late ’70s or maybe early ’80s.

They should sedate Calvin before they take him there.

I’m allergic to pretentiousness as well.

I imagine that Bill W. was piping his own feelings through Calvin. Been there.

I knew a woman once who had something from McDonald’s every morning for breakfast. I don’t remember what it was, but it was the same thing every morning, probably a McMuffin.

Perhaps madame would like me to take the little lad out back and drop him in a dumpster, you can pick him up on the way out.

ooooo what a BRATthis kidis iwould keep plenty of duct tape around fo his mouth!!!

Why kids should never be allowed to eat anywhere but fast food joints.

Nobody is going to enjoy the next hour, including other diners.

You know there must be plenty of atmosphere when the sommelier displays the wine to the back of your head…

Check out Dad’s eyebrow. That’s the kind of detail that makes Watterson so brilliant.

The pressure, for him to implode, would have to be too low – too high and he would explode, or melt, or get thrown out for complaining

If Calvin keeps that up, fast food joints will be the only restaurants where his family will be allowed.

Calvin; order the filet mignon rare that will show them.

It’s incumbent on parents to teach their children how to behave in nice restaurants, etc, but, oh my, it’s hard work.

I’m with Calvin on this one. And I’m a “seasoned citizen”.

3 glasses of merlot and Calvin will be fine.

Take him to the rest room, beat his little ass red, return to dinner. Worked for me and only had to do it once.

Calvin is nuts. The best meals were ones in ‘atmosphere’ places. My favorite place had a neon sign proclaiming ‘Oyster Bar’ in downtown Brownsville. My dad would pretend I was leaving meat in the tail and I was so in love with shrimp (could eat it until it is coming out my ears but still want more). I learned how to get that morsel out by wiggling until the meat is released, picking the shell off the tail and downing the morsel and, least efficient, biting down on the tail just before the tail fins and getting the morsel out. Mmmmmm, shrimp.

He should have said “Chuck E. Cheese, please!”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHaZtSBsa4

I hope they are in a room by themselves. It is rude to inflict bratty children on other diners who are also trying to have a pleasant evening. Leave your kids at home if they can’t behave. Get a sitter or stay home with them.

You wonder what Calvin has been reading to gain this information. Lots of books beyond his age range.

Think Rosalyn, Calvin…that might help….

Boys would be boys. If you don’t think so, leave