Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for March 23, 2025

They only flaw in your plan, Charlie Brown, is your feet will get bigger.

Charlie Brown, looking like a private eye from a 30’s gangster flick. Styling Chuck!

Rubber boots save your shoes, Charlie Brown.

Do people still wear rubbers (on their shoes)? Do they still make them? A couple of my professors used to wear them and it seemed odd to me, because the top of your shoes can still get wet, and with the laces so do your socks. Rain boots made a lot more sense to me.

Galoshes are to keep the carpet from getting wet!

Forget or don’t want too?

It was a soggy Saturday night when me and my girl Patty got out of the late late show. We were being tailed by a couple of Gambino’s boys, but I didn’t want to spook Patty by tellin’ her that. I watched them outta the corner of my eye, just’a make sure they didn’t get too close. The last thing I wanted was for Patty to get hurt, so I thought it best to get her home as soon as possible without making it seem like I was rushin’ her. Looks like my business with Gambino couldn’t wait. Tonight was the night that him and me were finally gonna settle our score.

I cannot remember the last time I actually wore a pair of rubbers. I remember having some at one point, (even galoshes!) but it’s been literally decades.

If they were teenagers rubbers would mean….

I remember something one of my dear friends told me. He grew up in northern NY state, and they called rainboots “rubbers”. His family moved here to NH; we call them galoshes. On his first day of middle school, it was raining, and his mother yelled out the door, “You forgot your rubbers!” The bus stop was right in front of his house & other kids were there. It took him a long time to live that down. (I miss you, Chris; RIP)

I used to hate wearing rubber boots cuz I was the only kid who did. Now I have a pair of Neos. Funny how things change.

Rubbers???? Are they talking about boots?

When you grow up Charlie Brown you will NOT want your rubbers to wear out. You probably won’t want to forget your rubbers half the time either.

But, Charlie Brown, don’t you get soggy feet a lot if you do that?

heh heh…rubbers…

Charlie, don’t forget to wear them half of the time. Think of those films shown in health class.

Too bad Sparky didn’t anticipate usage drift. Oh, well… I expect he had a gay old time drawing it.

Times have changed or have they? No smart cracks about “rubbers”?

I almost made an inappropriate comment but decided against it.

As I recall, ’rubbers’— rubber overshoes— were stretchy shoe-shaped things designed to fit over mens shoes. (there was a dainty lady’s that fit over high-heeled dress shoes.) Galoshes were boots, often as high as hiking boots, that fastened with ratchetted hooks. I recall my brother having some of those, except he almost never fastened the hooks. Instead he sloshed around in them with the uppers flapping around his ankles. I often got my brother’s hand-me-downs, but I never wore those boots. I had something more akin to British Wellies.