Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 04, 2024

…best laid schemes of tigers and boys…

And now you know how gravity works…..

“What could possibly go wrong?” Ahh those famous last words.

Well at least that gives them extra space for their new club.

And it was all downhill from there…

What’s even worse is that Calvin lost his hat.

Go Reck Our Sedan Smartie

Quick hop inside it’ll be a great ride.

I think the emergency brake hasn’t been set! Can that happen in today’s automobiles?

This was from a couple of years ago…Mon was bothered…a LOT!

Get Rid Of Stopping Sedans.

Listen to your tail.

It isn’t Calvin’s fault the emergency brake wasn’t on!

On a side note, if Hobbes is imaginary, how did Calvin manage to push the car all by himself?

than a minute agoI don’t know of any six-year-old who has the strength to push a car backward, overcome the force of the parking pall and have it keep rolling backwards… unless it’s a manual transmission, it’s in neutral, and the parking brake isn’t on. even so, just getting it to move would be a lot for a six-year-old.

Got Ridicules Overconfident Suddenly Subdued

I love what Hobbes says about his tail getting bushy every time Calvin says “What could happen?”

How did Calvin get it out of parking gear?

Another terrible driver. Can’t put the car in park/gear, and what is this silly thing you’re calling an emergency brake ???

This happened to my father when two kids were in the back seat of the car. Not to be outdone, decades later, his granddaughter (my niece) and her friend reenacted this family lore during a Sunday church service and rolled the family minivan over a few grassy stretches and out into the middle of an interstate highway. So, YES. This is possible.

Inertia: A property where mothers at rest don’t get to stay at rest for very long.

See, Calvin? This is your problem! You never think these through!

I always set the parking brake on any uneven surface. I’ve read enough of peoples’ cars running them over. I’ve seen videos of parked empty vehicles rolling over cliffs too. Also delivery drivers leaving truck in gear and them crashing into the house.

How is this even possible if the car isn’t turned on?

Impeccable 6-year-old logic

“What could possibly go wrong?” Well. cue the lightning and the thunder.

I wondered when shift locks became standard. Googling brought up Street Smart Transmission: “Since the early 1990s, vehicles with automatic transmissions are equipped with a key-shift interlock safety feature that locks the shifter in the Park position each time the shifter is placed there. In order to move the shifter out of Park, the key must be in the ignition switch and the switch must be in the “ON” or “RUN” position.”

My first car, a 1972 Mercury Capri (shudder!), had a manual transmission so it could be moved without a key but it could not be steered that way.

Too bad that wasn’t a minivan, then they could sing “♫…Van on the run, van on the run…♫”. A most excellent chase song!.

This one is on mom and dad for leaving the car in neutral without the parking break set. This could have happened without Calvin or Hobbs touching the car.

Oh Nooo… they popped the car out of Park !

The twist is that the runaway car will run into the thieves who broke into Calvin’s house last night, knocking them out, and they get all their stuff back.

They should have trusted his bushy tail!

And now the arc’s plot will completely change!

Can barely wait until tomorrow’s consequence

Why was it not in park? Is it a manual, or is Calvin smarter than the average bear?

Better than a tiger in your tank.

Nah… Calvin’s Mom’s understanding of youthful invigoration runs deep… I’m pretty sure.

In the real world there aren’t many six-year-olds who could make a car roll on level ground. We know it was on level ground because the car hadn’t moved even though it’s obvious that it was not in park and didn’t have any kind of brake set. Just the sheer inertia would be too much for a small boy to overcome. But this isn’t the real world; this is cartoon physics and cartoon reality, in which the stuffed tiger can push the car with the strength of a real tiger—about 800 pounds worth of feline muscle.

I once “bumped” somebody’s car who was blocking me from getting out in a remote park. It rolled expectedly thirty feet to the bottom of the hill, fortunately with no damage. I hope the surprise was a good lesson.

Love, love, love Hobbes bushy tail! Don’t think I remembered that from the previous run!

Who parks their car in neutral without parking brake? Her fault

Why would his parents leave car keys or anything metal or sharp where he can reach them?

Hobbes tail is intuitive of pending disaster. Hahaha!

BEEP

Looks like that emergency brake needs replacing!

Heh. I remember this storyline.

You’re lucky Mom doesn’t have a club,or a paddle.

The only missing is a studio audience.