Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 05, 2009

My Mom wouldn’t sign mine….

Ah, but then Calvin, it’s off to a day job where you feel exactly the same way, only now there’s no summer vacation to dream of and it’s possible that your boss won’t sign your permission slip for requested time off…

My goodness ! With all that counting that he can already do, maybe he doesn’t need schooling. He can go to the college right away !.

To get me out the next 11 1/2 years! And who will get him out of work than!

Homeless in training.

I’ve got a parental excuse to take early retirement right now! And I won’t sign it! Why,Why,WHY?

I must have been really weird….I actually liked school. It was a heck of a lot better than working.

The only good part of school was the look of relief on the teacher’s face when the bell rang at the end of the day.

Nice try, Calvin!

Pleeeeeeease sign it…..

What is real in this world is determined by those with the most to lose.

The cartoon intimates that the world, and life, generally sucks. If this is actually the case, why are we all so insistent on staying in it? Is the human race inherently masochistic or do we, deep down inside, doubt the promise of a better life beyond this one? It seems to me that if a better life beyond were true that we’d all be lining up to go there. Instead, we fight and scratch and claw to stay right where we are and continue with our suffering. How strange is that?

While you’re at it, Calvin, why don’t you get permission to miss the next 40 years or so of work.

I’ve got what I hope will be 5 more years left of going to the salt mines, and even that seems like an eternity away.

Every morning I jump out of bed and shout, “Oh boy! I wonder what’s happening at work today!” Then I skip down the road with a smile on my face and a song in my heart to see my loving co-workers and understanding bosses who recognize, acknowledge, and reward my every effort.,

Would you call the drugstore and see if my meds are ready yet?

Hey guys, I actually love my work. Sadly, there are about three other careers I’d love to do too – so much fun out there and so few hours.

Re the cartoon: Dad replies: “Sure I’ll sign if you sign this form that says you move out the day you leave school.”

“Welcome To My (the) World” - Jim Reeves

I believe a certain “better life beyond” is true, but most people either don’t believe in it or don’t desire it. It isn’t their ‘cup of tea’ so to speak. Besides, they prefer to try to earn it rather than be humbled to accept the gift. “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13

Anyone’s only hope: The Lottery.

money will buy a better class of worries

I wonder what effect signing this will have on his dad’s standings in the polls?

Money can rent happiness. Or so I’ve heard.

mplsstreetrwy I think signing that will give him a landslide victory in the polls.

When you’re a kid griping about school, adults tell you these are the best years of your life because working is harder. But as a kid you can’t fathom that. It turns out to be true though. School is a lot less difficult than working. Very few people actually have a job or career they enjoy, most people only work for the money and count the hours til they can go home, or count the days til the weekend, or the next vacation or retirement.

High school was ok, but grade school was the worst years of my life and much harder than anything I’ve done since. The best part of my childhood was the part where I left it behind.

I was pretty miserable in high school, but I’m fairly content with my work. I just wish there was more of it and medical benefits!

Calvin going to hate the next 11 1/2 years…

I love school. That’s why I’ve been going for two decades!

If only I had a parental slip like that. Nobody would sign it, though.

School was OK. The idiots I had to contend with were another matter.

Think “Lords of Flatbush.”

To aerwalt, that’s the same as me. Except that I’m still in school.

I couldn’t wait to grow up when I was a kid…grownups can do ‘whatever they want’…ha!

I am retired and no damned hurry to leave for any promise Like Calvin because he works in the here and now His make believe is so much fun

Ray C said: “Money can rent happiness.” It can also ‘rent’ (as in tear apart) happiness. But I’d still like to take my chances.

One of these days, when Calvin is toiling away in a job he HATES that he’ll be at far longer than when he was in school, he’ll be wishing he was a little boy again where he had no real problems or things to worry about … and hadn’t wished his young life away!

I’m with Calvin and Albert Einstein who both figured out that “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

That makes three of us so far.

I hated grade school, junior high and high school. I loved the college classes I took though. It makes a big difference when you are learning something that interests you vs what the system says you have to learn.

as a person who is going to start working (pretty eager to see how it turns out in our economy) and still in school it could be an enrichening experience to see the how a job is over the summer AND summer school.

OK, right after you sign that I don’t have to support you anymore..

My friend’s daughter graduated from college. She told him that she’d start looking for work after “summer break”. He told her, that since school is OVER—there is NO summer break. Go look for a job, and go to work NOW!

Life would be alot better if we all could do what we wanted and had all the money and time to do it. I’m still keep hoping I’ll get to do that some day.

grazer, that’s easy for Einstein to say. He had plenty of both. Imagination may be more important than knowledge, but you’re more screwed without knowledge than you are without imagination.

This really described my life until I retired, now I can do what I want when I want to do it. Life is great!

For some of us there are a lot of people who have lost jobs and need work. And some who have been looking for work and can’t get work. And people like me did work had to leave for kids and waited to long when technology changed working pt and I need full time and the odds are too high 1000 to 1 position. Only the young who stay with education and ouside job seem to get somewhere. When I was a kid school was ok but I enjoyed the library for books because summer was boring no library.

I do the same at office.. and I get paid for it. I can’t even get a parental excuse.