Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 28, 2021

They should start work on an ark.

Jumping in puddles it is!

Until you’re 18

Today’s a good day to bury a treasure, because nobody else will be outside watching you.

Most people dodge bullets, Hobbes reflects them!

What would be a better indoor activity on a rainy day? A board game wouldn’t do because they’d argue over who’s cheating.

See you for dinner.

We lived where the rainy season was in summer. And it was FUN (for awhile) to chase around out in the rain. A few years, we even had a big mud puddle where the rain collected and we could chase through there and raise MUD waves!. Then we’d get tired, my mom would come to the door of the garage and hose us down and dump us into a warm bath. Ah, those were the days!

Until rain will stop! That can be a very long time!!

You stay outside until Mom has a chance to pack and slip out the back door.

I assumed they were playing some version of Calvinball, because at sometime everything turns into Calvinball (or should), but they aren’t wearing masks, and don’t have a ball.

Note to Mom: What’s better, dealing with a bunch of ruckus now, or cleaning up a bunch of mud tracked in later?

I always wonder what mom is working at the desk. Sometimes I think it’s a children’s book on all the things kids can it into. Sometimes I think it’s a psychology study of children. And other times it’s a scream for help.

Wrong answer CalvinMom: " Your driving me crazy "Calvin " That’s what we’re trying to do "

They’re probobly not allowed back in till Calvin starts high school, most likely! (LOL)

Until next Thursday.

Now, a kid would be glued to some kind of glowing screen with a dazed look on his face. I’d take a kid rampaging through the house anyday.

…until hell freezes over or the Leafs win the cup.

I remember seeing that facial expression in frame 7 on my own mom’s face.

Woo hoo!! Now they get to play in the mud! That’s great! What luck, Calvin and Hobbes!

Calvin forgets that sometimes reminding parents of something they said can backfire.

I know this is going to sound all ‘Hallmark Moment’, but picture mom taking a break from whatever she was working on and coming outside and splashing around with them.

During rainstorms, my mother used to pull the car out of the garage and put us into roller skates. Indoor rink!

You will just be dust in a few years, it okay you are fading into obscurity

@PaulAbbott2- Yes, I agree. Even though they can be a PITA, it’s natural for boys to have an overabundance of energy and be mischievous. It’s part of our nature. I know it was with me. And even though I know I was a PITA to my parents and always getting into trouble in PS, I look back and laugh at the way I was! But it wasn’t until my father took out of my neighborhood school and placed in a public school with predominantly White children who were more disciplined, that I slowly began to change. But those little White boys weren’t complete angels, either. If anything, they showed me new ways to cut the fool!

Typical. If you try too hard to get what you want, you might just get what you deserve. (Yeah, karma)

When it stops raining time for wormucking

“We’re not allowed back in until when?”

“Well, apparently later today, some pigs are gonna start flying…”

This is an old one. Nobody can use a finger gun these days.

As my mother used to say, the weather is never too bad for the children not being able to go play outside…

Not during electrical storms.

I was the eldest of four boys. I always had to be the easily-defeated villain without making it look too easy.

What time is “hell freezes over?”

Chase him around a tree until he melts into butter…surely Calvin wouldn’t offend the cancel culture?

That is a very funny Sunday strip! I even laughed out loud!!!

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“Noyadint! Noyadint!” How many times have I said/heard that!?

I spent so much time outside, as a kid, I forgot what the layout of the interior of the house was! My mother figured, I wouldn’t drown if it was raining, and in Winter, we had a 500’ wide sledding hill available. Now, I’d almost be surprised kids wouldn’t seriously be afraid of drowning in the rain, and probably, would have no idea how to operate a toboggan.

Let go the umbrella folks and take the showers for a change till both run pneumonia. Mom would find the house coming down easier than managing the flue.