Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 03, 2012

I have never been partial to manual labor either.

It ’s like a steak. It is not worth eating if well dome. So satisfaction is rare and often bloody.

Beautiful, margueritem!

Well, Calvin, in the case of picking up sticks, the satisfaction is in a smooth-running lawnmower. If you miss picking up a stick, you can bet the lawnmower will find it and KERWHANG!! (usually followed by words that a six-year-old shhouldn’t hear)

His dad’s stick-ing it to him.

Better off picking up sticks than mending a broken lawnmower.

You forgot to mention that it builds character, Calvin.

Don’t worry Calvin, It builds character

I don’t think you get any satisfaction from a job well done unless you enjoy the job on some level.

From the hints we see here and there of Dad being as much of a rascal as Calvin when he was younger, one wonders what happened to make him such a boring stick-in-the-mud as an adult (most of the time). I prefer the strips where he does funny things to Calvin’s bedtime stories!

Hang in there, Calvin. You might change your mind as you grow older and get paid for a “job well done”!

You can throw them for Hobbes.

LOL LOL xxx

my dad would do this for my grandfather during the depression in the mid 30’s for a penney a stick. Good times.

Stick around for about fourty years Calvin and you will see it. Awsome eggs Margueritem :-)

“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction!”

My Dad made me pick up sticks and stuff,I made my kids do it,does it build character I do not know ,by the way so did Gramps make my Dad pick stuff off the lawn.Calvin just pick them up or get Hobbes to do it.

Calvin should pick up all the rocks in the yard too. If the lawn mower hits a rock-WHAM! On someone’s head or worse.

It’s surprising that Dad isn’t making Calvin mow the lawn.

I think maybe that’s because Dad will get into less trouble regarding child labor laws if he waits one more year until Calvin turns 7 years old instead!

;-)

love it

I hope Dad doesn’t think Calvin will start a fire with those sticks.

Oh, the joys of home ownership!!!!! Just wait, Calvin . . . someday when you’re all grown up, you can make your son pick up all those pesky sticks instead of you having to do it!

;-)

I imagine @kea’s remark was meant in jest.

As Hobbes says in a Sunday strip, “Live and don’t learn, that’s us.”

i am with calvin you don’t get satisfaction from picking up sticks…