Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 05, 2014

Crabbiness is job requirement for school superintendents.

I wonder what time of the night it is… hehe

Ah, the things one could get away with back in the days of corded phones and no caller ID!

Uh, Calvin. There’s no way the Superintendent is going to call school now! It doesn’t pay to wake him/her up in the middle of the night! ;)

time to bed off boy okay

good going Calvin, no snow days for you all winter

does Calvin, have any human friends?

The NERVE of that superintendent!

Helen? I thought I asked you to change the phone number…

“Shut up and go back to bed, you dumb kid!” says the superintendent.

Superintendents are stuck between the teachers (who want to educate the kids) the school boards (who want higher test scores), and the state government (who want the public schools to be profit-making machines). No wonder they’re crabby.

Calvin should have rented a snow machine and placed it outside the super’s house.

rphbeta said, about 14 hours ago@neverenoughgoldRight after your wife gets into bed, before going to sleep, bring her a couple of aspirin tablets and a cup of water. She will say, “What’s that for?”“Your headache.”“But I don’t have a headache.”Put the aspirin and water aside and say,“All right, then!”.Crap! I laughed so hard with this I almost wet myself!.Almost…

I wonder how Calvin got his phone number.

From the phone book! Published back in the days of rotary phones, until telemarketers, solicitors, scammers using these books drove most of us to cell phones.

I know a perfect example of a crabby cartoon character… Lucy van Pelt.

xxx

How would he know the superintendent’s number much less know his or her name. I was lucky to remember the teachers’ name.