Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 07, 2018

But think about how pretty the scenery will be on the bus ride to school.

The scenery on the way to prison is never pretty !

Mother nature at her finest.

One of my most favorite C&H strips. The dime lottery sure won’t buy much.

Hey, ten cents was worth more back then.

Not if you’re driving on it!

Hey, I won $39 once. That same day I got a ticket for being a day late to renew my motorcycle’s license, which cost me $39.

If you live in the South, 1 inch of snow will close schools for a couple of days.

I grew up in Wisconsin. Never had a snow day. In college the instructor couldn’t (?) make it one day, but the entire class was there.

That happens a lot when someone gives me one of those scratch off cards! ($5 instead of 10 cents)

It’s all relative on where you live. In upstate New York, “It;s only 8 inches.” In North Carolina, “4 inches! We’ll be shut down for weeks!”

Then what’s that stuff piled up to the window?

Southern Manitoba, snowed 2 feet, snow drifts of 5 feet, get to school, snow mobiles and tractors.

Living in Tennessee is great. One inch = one day out of school and/or off work and then the next day the snow is all gone and we can get back to life as usual.

Where I used to live in south Georgia, that ‘lottery’ win would close the place down for a couple of days. Where we live now, northern Tennessee, I am hoping for a REAL lottery windfall of snow, at least once.

Once again we have a “Poor Baby situation”.

At my age, as long as I can use the leaf blower to get rid of the fluffy stuff, it’s like winning a grand. 8^)

In Detroit, there was no such thing as a snow day. You just showed up or else. At Georgia Tech in Atlanta, it snowed maybe half an inch one day, and from my dorm room I could hear the tire chains clanking on I75. No snow here in Florida, but we do have hurricane days.

South Eastern Ontario. While a snow storm rarely shuts down the school, 1 inch will definitely shut down the bus leaving parents stuck getting their kids to school.

Hey, how about that, all that praying for snow finally paid off… took two weeks but still.

hey kid!!! at least its something!!

I used to be excited to see lots of snow. Days off school! Playing in the snow! Sledding!

Now I’m excited to hop out of bed and see that only an inch has fallen. Nothing to shovel! No problem driving! Yippeee!!

With apologies to Bill Torrey (the architect of the New York Islanders’ dynasty of the late 70s, who was talking about a five-minute overtime in the NHL), one inch of snow is like thirty seconds of sex: you could, but why bother?

Living in the deep south, an inch of snow shuts EVERYTHING down. No one knows how to drive on snow.

Hey, I don’t even GET snow most of the time, so I don’t even know what you’re talking about!

I looks like more than that around his window. I agree, though. When you’re a kid in school, if it’s not gonna snow enough to close the schools, then it shouldn’t snow at all!

If you win ten cents in the lottery, do you have a net loss of 90 cents because you paid $1 for the ticket?

We did have the buses “freeze up” years ago during bitter cold. I don’t remember all the details, but this is what I recall: Someone convinced the school board to use biodiesel in the buses, but forgot to tell them to change the fuel filters if they made the switch. The cold caused the fuel to gel and clog the filters. Half the buses wouldn’t start.

But Calvin, just think of all the snowballs you can make now, to throw at that smelly Suzie Durkins

I’ve lived in California my whole life, but aren’t snow days deducted from summer vacation?

Por Calvin mom always crushes his dreams.

I win $2 and use it buy another ticket

now that i have to drive to work 1-2 inches is just about right. enough to look pretty but not enough to take me out.

Down east here, snow is far fetched. But an inch of rain will ensure schools are shut.

There is nothing like you dress for school and get an sms that the school is closed for the day due to rain/snow.

When I was in elementary school and junior high school, we had no snow days. When I was in high school, we got a new superintendent. Good thing, because then we had the Blizzard of ‘78 and they closed school for a week. They had to close it again that year because the barges couldn’t get to the power plants with coal to generate electricity.

We don’t have snow in Puerto Rico, but when a hurricane hits the island, they close the school for months.