Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 03, 2017

“…always happens…”

I think you do it on purpose.

Well, doesn’t Calvin have gum or something?

Wait until Hobbes pounces on him after school.

Does he have his lucky spaceship underwear on?

For the same reason that you sometimes forget to zip your fly when you’ve just come back to work after a restroom-break and you don’t realize it until after you’ve been sitting at your desk for a while and you wonder how many people noticed as you were walking back to your desk.

Something like this happened to me when I was 13 and I taped the rip with duct tape on the reverse : it hold up for months until the pants were too little for me

Euripides? Eumenides or I’ll Socrates!

Murphy’s Law, Calvin. If anything can go wrong, it will.

When I was in school, the only time you had to do problems at the blackboard was when you were in trouble with the teacher ! ! ! !

Thus was born the original wardrobe malfunction.

I ripped mine on the day I was to be awarded a trophy for winning the spelling bee in front of the entire school. I shuffled all the way from the back of the auditorium up to the stage and then shuffled back.

…and thus concludes our celebration of the abacus at McLean’s Hospital Children’s Center in Belmont, MA. Be sure to remember that it is still Daylight Savings Time. Now back to Kelly.

His life is like hell with embarrassment

Because the perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.

That looks like a really extreme rip.

another Law of the Perverse Universe.

And people wonder why I wear overalls ;)

If memory serves, this is the day he wore the underwear with little rocketships on them.

We used to get a swing going and bail out. A girl tried to do that, dress caught on the swing!

He could tell the teacher an he can call Mom to bring a replacement.

I think the ripped pants will be the least of his problems!

Why? Because Murphy’s Law is the only universal constant.

I don’t want to go into too much detail but something happened to me after PE class. It was the last lesson on the day and normally we were allowed to wear our PE kits to go home. Well a certain “garment” under my PE shirt came loose and of course the teacher decided that we all had to change back into our uniforms!

I ended up not having to. Thank God. But I would have literally died if I did have to.

xxx

And on a day you are wearing your rocket ship underwear no less!!!