Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 03, 2020

After 5 years in the first grade, Mrs. Wormwood is on to you.

Chairs can kill you. But not if I kill it first.

HYAH

Blame it on Brownian Motion Calvin.

see if Miss Wormwood will allow you to wear a bicycle helmet, some elbow pads, and some knee pads next time, Calvin

You just love to embarrass yourself, don’t you, Calvin?

For once he was sitting well and reading a book.

You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time..

- Steven Wright

Use of the word “could” gives away the fact that it actually didn’t, Calvin.

Blame it on the book Calvin, “It came alive and pushed me”!

Yeah! It could’ve!

Calvin’s reputation precedes him.

giving Peppermint Patty a run for her money, Calvin?

In Jr. High, I had a kid behind me who would basically glance his hand at the back of my head…not enough to hurt, but just enough to bother me. I reached behind me, grabbed the front leg of the desk he was sitting at, and lifted with all my might. Before he knew it, the desk tipped over to the side, and he was sideways on the floor, pinned under the desk and chair. I got sent to the office, but it was worth it, he never bothered me again. Sometimes one has to fight the good fight.

Wait he said “it could have happened by accident” so it was on purpose?!

A career in slapstick comedy could be calling.

A friend of mine has a dodgy office chair that will sometimes lean back at a 45 degree angle if you put your weight on it just right (wrong?). I’m fairly used to being in a voice chat with them and randomly hearing “snap AAAAH!”

I can’t even remember how many times my mom, teachers, grandma, mother in law, crossing guard, etc. warned me about tilting backing in my chair.

Accidents are usually simpler than that one.

“Man vs. Furniture.” Thursday’s at 8 on The History Channel.

Define ‘accident’.

I’ve actually had that happen to me in school.

Umm… I don’t think so.

That actually did happen to me in high school. I fell asleep in Geometry class. Next thing I knew I was being picked up off the floor.

Heh, Calvin should’ve done that at home before faking amnesia in this story arc… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2017/02/27

Watching too much Batman (RIP Adam West)

I’m not even sure what just happened.

Hey, at least Calvin knows proper grammar. I know college grads who say and/or write “could of” instead of “could’ve”.

Surprised there was that much open space behind him.

I once did fall off a chair at school (I was a teenager so quite a bit older than Calvin) Thankfully nobody noticed because I was right at the back and there wasn’t really any noise. I did it rather quietly.

Memory is hazy as it was years ago but I only remember those couple of things.

xxx

Calvin will look back on his life and be extremely surprised to still be alive.