Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 20, 2021

After laughing, Amy reminded Calvin’s Mom about the restraining order.

I can only imagine how Calvin’s time with Amy went.

Amy must’ve gone to see a psychiatrist after her fiascos with Calvin.

Was it an insane laugh, or a “YEAH RIGHT!” kind of laugh?

Barracuda? It’s how I called my ex mother-in-law.

Poor Amy

Rosalyn is willing to do it. Cause what the pay her is gonna put her thru college.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a wall mounted phone.

I love Rosalyn story arcs. She’s the only one who can handle Calvin!

You gotta love Rosalyn.

“Rosayln’s fine,” means “I don’t care!”

It’s nice to hear that Amy is able to laugh again.

It was a nervous, hysterical laugh.

Amy’s response is a conditioned response induced by electroshock therapy.

Karma all the way….

My in-laws still have one on the wall like this. In the 80s, I was at a farm and they had a wall mounted phone with a handle that you turned to indicate (short and long signals) who you were ringing, it was a party line phone as everyone on the network could listen in.

Still have a working candlestick… albeit late 20th century

This reminds me of a movie I saw this year: “Babysitters Beware”, with Danny Trejo. It’s about a “good kid” who wants more attention from his parents so he tries to be impossible to babysitters. It’s not great cinema, but it’s cute as heck and funny. Trejo as one of the babysitters is a scream.

If Rosalyn’s name is brought up, then you know it’s going to be an interesting story arc coming up!

How many folks read “Barracuda” and thought of this song?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeMvMNpvB5M

Every person I’ve known with the name Amy, have been the nicest of all. So if Amy doesn’t want to be around you you have issues.

Calvin, you’d better make sure your will is up to date.

Maybe Rosalyn knows she won’t be charged as an adult. Of course, Calvin is more insult and banter-y than assault and battery.

“Barracuda in a High School Senior suit,” still an epic slam even by today’s standards!

In the future, Rosalyn will be Calvin’s internist.

Decades later, someone will ask Dr. Rosalyn why she decided not to have children and she’ll reply that she once was a babysitter.

We were little Hellions as kids. Once, a neighbor girl was baby-sitting us for the first time and before long we had her running out of the house crying. Her mother ended up coming over and watching us until our parents got back.

Cheer up, Calvin. Remember the time her boyfriend came over and she sent you and Hobbs to bed early and you snuck downstairs later that night and watched them play Hide the Kielbasa? Good Times. Good Times.

This is weird, but I can’t recall having any babysitters when I was a kid. hmmm.

The phone needs a long long coiled cord. Twisted and knotted beyond recovery. Perhaps when, and if, they ever have a retro teenage daughter.

Amy is in the loony bin now. They allow phones in there

not babysitting but i had a former consulting client call and ask if i would come back to work with them. I laughed too.

Horrible place with bitter people who did nothing but complain about each other. It didn’t pay enough to deal with them again.

I assume Rosalyn must charge astronomical rates to babysit Calvin, or else Mom wouldn’t have called 8 other people first. I do know we’ve seen Rosalyn shaking down Calvin’s parents before, but you’d think by this point that they’d just accept that she’s the only one with the mental toughness to handle Calvin at any price.

What’s a “senior suit”? (Aside from the obvious legal jokes.)

I wonder if they ever tried a boy babysitter.

When I was a young teen I sat for a rather lively little boy. I would bring a football or a baseball & my glove. A couple hours outside with him running after the ball, by bedtime I would carry him into the house & he was limp as a rag-doll.

Maybe Calvin’s mom and dad need to take parenting lessons from Rosalyn.

I was once a “Rosalyn” to babysit the kid next door. $5.00/hour when the going rate was $1 ;)

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/04/11

I bet you gonna ambush me

You’d have me down, down, down, down on my knees

Now wouldn’t you, Barracuda? Oh

Bruh