Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 07, 2021

Hope he gets there before he needs fresh pair of pajamas.

Nature sure calls, doesn’t it?

First panel was IT.

Water, water, water, whereever you look!That’s too much water!

Maybe this will be a lesson to stop calling Mom for a glass of water in the middle of the night.

Whew! Good thing he wasn’t dreaming about giant mudslides…

Even the monster hiding under the bed is powerless against the call of nature.

One of the advantages of age: I recognize those dreams almost as soon as my consciousness gets up to 75% or so. One of the disadvantages: That’s twice per night!

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go…..

Will our hero be able to arrive in time?

I just hate it when that happens, don’t you?

For those of us over 50, I learned something that stopped me getting up like this every 90 min or so throughout the night: wear knee-high support stockings during the day. Helps the circulation so you don’t accumulate fluid in your legs, which is easier for your body to process when you’re lying horizontal all night. Not recommended for those with hypertension though.

Welcome to oldagehood.

I’m way over 50, and I recommend walking at least a mile a day, and two miles would be better. It is relaxing for everybody, but much more so for the hypertensive. It improves the circulation, clears the lungs, and improves your mood. As for the other, my doctor prescribed Tamsulosin, and it works very well.

Around 2:00am every night…

Fun fact. When I was a young man, old men who leaked or seeped wore condoms to keep dry. The drugstore was the only place to buy condoms. I bought them for a couple of old men who were too embarrassed to buy them.

This is something Hobbes doesn’t have to struggle with….

I wish more calvin and hobbes were coming out. They were the sublime example of real childhood.

What youth and old age share in common!

I don’t hear the call of nature, I hear the YELL of nature!

By the third panel from the end I had The Sorcerer’s Apprentice playing in the background in my head

Did this strip 8nspire those Calvin peeing decals?

Haven’t we all had this one?

Okay. I’m pathetic. Now I have to pee.

Good lad.

I have dreams similar to that. I need to go, I’m in a public building and all the toilets and urinals’ are broken.

Calvin has an old man dream!

Throw in a falling dream and watch what happens.

I am nearly 70, and can still make it through the night. i bring that fact up to my golf buddies, who are several years younger, as a point of pride.

I’ll have dreams that start of very normal, like in a store or something, and I’ll start looking for the rest room. When I find it, it’s either broken or so filthy I don’t want to use it, or something — and THAT’S when I wake up! (so far!)

Poor Calvin…. I hope he made it, or Hobbes will not be a happy tiger!

Water dreams are definitely your unconscious brain’s attempt to communicate. I honestly don’t know what those “dropping feathers in a vacuum” dreams mean but I will keep asking. :)

The worst dreams are the ones where you have found the bathroom. Sweet relief – for a moment.

Nightmare: Ends

You: SWEET VICTORY

When you gotta go…

This happens a lot to me. The only difference is that something else comes out.

Been there.

Just wait until you get older, little buddy, and it happens half a dozen times a night.

Shades of MM in Fantasia. Wonder if he had to go to the bathroom when it was all over.

Except for panels with the firetruck, firefighter, and the last 2 panels, this reminds me of The Moldau by Bedřich Smetana.

Beats the heck out of dreaming that you’re standing in front of a urinal and actually doing it…

Um; Ever been stuck in traffic that has not moved in 5-10 minutes, and you have the “runs”?

I had a friend in his eighties who would visit and, without fail, would need to urinate two hours in. We called it “The Wallyclock".

Imagine this while camping!

They had a similar situation at Little Nemo this morning.

Yes, the nightmare calling. Who hasn’t had one of those?

Even though we are in the over-fifty crowd (by a couple of decades), exercise seems to keep the nocturnal visits to a minimum. We use walking, running, dancing, sit-ups, stretching, tumbling, push-ups, leg lifts, hand-stands, a stand-up desk, etc, to keep things working. It all seems to help.

Oh that can be my dream, then wake up and have to go.

Was that a wet dream?

Number 1 on the best seller list…“when you gotta go, you gotta go,” by U.P. Nightly.

My doctor prescribed me a little (Not blue but similar in function) pill that cut that problem down to once or twice a night at most. Also has more fun side effects for one my age. Best of all, insurance covers it!

GO! GO! GO! WE’RE NUMBER 1!Gimme a ‘P!’

Here’s my sound effect track for that strip… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nC162MFo7k

Oddly enough, sometimes I pee in a dream and not in reality at the same time.

How much water did you drink before bed, kid?

Gosh, that’s funny — I had that dream last night. And I’m ’way, ’way older than Calvin.

Wait til he’s in his 60’s.

If I dream about needing to go, it’s rooted in reality… I wake up and go.

Here lately Ive had dreams where I went to the bathroom, started my business…..then woke up before it went too far. Sign of getting old, I guess.

We’ve all been there.

Now I have to go.