Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 19, 2024

And now Calvin has no pie.

Life actually only gets worse. All you can do is make it better.

Hahahaha! That is one of my favorite strips!

That’s a Child’s perspective!

Calvin so frequently has the opportunity to learn that the road of his life tends to be built on the words he decided to eject from his mouth.

And the pie is four days late! That’s outrageous!

Who put the bee in HIS britches today??

That’s what you get for taking life for granted.

This might be the grumpiest face Mr. Watterson ever drew.

The pie doesn’t ever jump out of the plate and try to eat you, does it, Calvin?

“I ordered a piece of pie at a diner, and the waiter gave me a small piece. If the pie was a pie chart for ‘what would you do if you had a million dollars’, he gave me the ‘donate to charity’ piece. I would like to exchange mine for the ‘keep it’!” – Mitch Hedberg.

Get used to it, sour puss.

No one does Grumpy Face better than Calvin. Except maybe Grumpy Cat may she rest in peace!

Mom and Dad in this strip know how to deal with an entitled child.

Calvin is a glass half empty guy.

Liking the picture of Hobbes above the bed. And. It looks like Calvin actually managed to put together a ’plane with it sitting pride of place on the bedside table……

Life IS better. She could have made you turn out the light and go to sleep.

YUM! pie- 4 in the morning in denver and i’m hungry for pie—-cherry pie would be great for an early breakfast! YUM!

Calvin Discovers Shrinkflation.

Even a fish would miss getting caught if it knew to keep its mouth shut

Yeah, because your life is pretty darn good. “Worse”, for you, is a much larger slice of life than “better”.

Smile, they said, it could be worse, they said. So I smiled, and sure enough, it got worse.

After a somewhat disappointing Big Nate strip, I’m happy to be able to turn to my favorite comic strip of all time. This is a 10/10 strip in my book.

That’s how I try to deal with most of life’s major and minor reverses. I remind myself, “Don’t complain, it could be worse.” Freezing weather, blizzard, dead battery, water heater broken… "Don’t complain, it could be worse "

This reminds me of an AT&T Wireless commercial where the woman gives a little girl a lollypop and then gives her brother a bigger one. The girl exclaims, “That’s not fair!”

What did this girl do to deserve ANY lollypop to begin with? The fact that AT&T ran this commercial for months without any backlash is an indication as to how entitled Americans feel that they are.

People have felt entitled for thousands of years. In one of his parables, Jesus tells of a vineyard owner who hires people in the morning, more at midday and even more at the end of the day and pays them all the same amount. Those who were hired early complained even though they were paid a fair day’s wage.

Life is a lot easier when you look at yourself rather than compare yourself to others.

So Calvin, there are children who go to bed hungry which is a lot worse than no dessert.

Anyone ever wonder why Calvin is an only child?

You should have been thankful for your pie, Calvin.

Good pie is never large enough…

FAFO, Calvin. Learn it now and save yourself a lot of anguish.

And, what ever happened to the unfulfilled math homework affair?

I’ve noticed, Calvin, I’ve noticed…

Tiger picture in the background.

While growing up in our household, a pie was as rare a treat as watching a total eclipse of the sun.

You have to experience the “worse” to appreciate the “better”.

Just be glad you got pie.

I would eat the pie first, before I complained about it not being enough.

It’s amusing how we’re simultaneously told to accept our lot in life and sacrifice everything to improve it.

Everybody wants a bigger piece of the pie.

If Trump were a cartoon.

Life is what you make it, you can make it hard and brutal, or you can make it wonderous and exciting. We have never lived in a time of such plenty and yet even with AC and fast cars people complain about dollars and dimes.

And you shall have no pie! See ya at breakfast.

And where is HOBBES? Probably eating the pie….

NEVER criticize Mom’s pie. Calvin will have time to think about that while in his bedroom.

Try as best you can, and hope things will break your way (sometimes).

This might be one of the most fundamental truths I’ve ever read in a strip.

Even more likely when you do stuff to make it that way.

Considering that we live in a society whose businesses are in business of selling food, and we are surrounded by constant advertizing about food, I detest this artificial control of food for children.

If children’s food wasn’t cotrolled as much as it is, we wouldn’t have this atrocious epidemic of grossly overweight kids waddling about and who end up with diabetes type 2, which is completely preventable.

In real life, if my kid wanted to eat the whole pie, I never blinked an eye. If he wanted to eat dessert before supper, he did it.

In our house food was never used as a punishment or as a reward.

None of my kids are overweight, since they never had to feel that they would be deprived.

It would go better with a cup o’ Joe. And 6 is not too young to start drinking it

Should have said, “was”, Calvin…

Telling me your Aunt Edna had a worse problem does not make my problem go away.

I’m both sides of that argument.

This particular strip taught me to not make such complaints as a kid.

If you expect better, you may be disappointed. If you expect worse, you’ll always be disappointed.

I wonder if his mom told him the classic “There are children starving in (wherever) who would just love to have that piece of pie” before she took it from him.

Lesson learned … ??? … ;)

That was your object lesson for today.

THIS is a brat. (notice for those who like to say what a terrible child Calvin is, when he’s just being a

Spoiled kid!