Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 02, 2010

Calvin, you little home wrecker, you…

NOW that’s the girl I’ve been looking for all my life heh, heh

Times like these Dad’s happy he’s at work.

At least give the poor little guy a power drill.

That’s the cost of having an active tornado of a kid.

Calvin sure is a handfull. Maybe Mom & Dad should have rented. They could then focus on Calvin’s doings/

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

In spite of all we need a place to live, we cannot change!

Calvin used that kind of drill because it’s QUIET!

Hey, doesn’t Allstate have an insurance policy for “Calvin” forgiveness??????

Run Calvin,Run for your life!!

Nice one, cleokaya.

Love the last panel. Mom needs insurance for house against Calvin.

My son never destroyed the house but he went through a how do things work stage. He took apart alot of clocks which made it fun to get up in the morning and many of his electronic toys. I could never throw anything mechanical away because he wanted to disect it. I had to be careful with the vacuum cleaner because there was always little screws and gears all over the floor.

I still have a drill like that.

Just for the record, that drill is called a bit and brace.

I don’t own a home and won’t until they are out of the house! Oh wait, then grandchildren might come over. Maybe I’ll rent for the rest of my life!

DINO The time Dad came home after I had put practically all the parts back in Grandpa’s pocket watch (extra parts for people who don’t know what they’re doing), he gave me a book, not a whooping.”How Things Work” was informative, but I still prefer hands on. My mother and my significant still cringe when they see me with a tool box. Matter of fact, I don’t think my mother would let me in her house if I had a screwdriver.

Mom should ‘drill’ it into Calvin how to use that tool properly. He doesn’t know ‘a bit and brace’ from a hole in the wall.

I thought Mom had ‘painted herself into a corner’, but apparently not. Calvin can’t escape, so he might as well slow down ‘a bit and brace’ himself.

When I was Calvin’s age, all such experiments were ultimately destructive. By the time I was 12 I’d figured out how to take things apart in such a way that they could be reassembled successfully.

At 14 my folks had me replace the transmission in the washing machine.

The moral is, don’t discourage the enquiry, but try to save the house.

Hey mom take a pen and connect the holes…er dots it could just be a work of art?

Good thing he missed the wiring…

Any bets that the holes are in the wall Mom just worked on yesterday?

I wonder where Calvin was drilling at.? Calvin we know your just trying to be helpful.

In panel four, Calvin’s mom has the snoopy eyes

PUDDLEGLUM, You are soooo clever!

What in tarnation give him the need for a brace & bit ?

I also still have a drill like that! Somewhere…………………………..

G’Afternoon, Mike, Grog & Marg!

can;t stand cleaning - where are all the happy disney critters that snow white had?or, why can’t my cat learn to mop?

When will dad ever learn to lock up all of his tools in a place where Calvin can’t get to them?! And if he can’t – or won’t – then why doesn’t mom do it since she’s the only one that appears to do any of the home’s maintenance around there … and probably a majority of that maintenance is fixing what Calvin destroys?!?!?

lucky he didn’t hit a live wire

What the heck is the use of HAVING a tool if you aren’t busy destroying things with it? Jeesh!

Easy way to deal with kids like Calvin is to lock up the car and the garage, and then lock him out of the house, and, of course, no access to anything with a sharp point on it. My dad was the shooting Editor for Field & Stream - we had enough firearms and ammo in the basement to allow Westchester county to secede from the US. Hate to think what a kid like Calvin might have done with a situation like that….yoiks….

Calvin, you little trouble maker!

xD