Benitin y Eneas by Pierre S. De Beaumont and Bud Fisher for August 01, 2011

Please may I hear from you: For years I;ve been clipping the funier comics from the newspaper. When I realized it contributed to my clutter, I began to organize the comics and culled all the Calvin & Hobbes comics together, I saved so many C&H comics because I felt they are outrageously funny. I began a project of scotchtaping my C&H comics into a notebook. Each comic had 4 pieces of scotchtape curled around the corners so they would be readable in my notebook.. The project took several weeks.

I showed my roommate the notebook of C&H comics as he only came of age (he’s 26)after C&H was no longer in its original print. After a few days, I found my C&H notebook was no longer in my apartment. My roommate told me he brought it to work to show a coworker. For weeks I asked him when he would bring the notebook back and he said his coworker wanted to photocopy it.

Then he told me his coworker went to Israel to attend her son’s funeral. Meanwhile, there was a fire in his office and there was a lot of water damage to the lockers. It was several weeks later that the coworker returned to the US and opened her locker to find that my C&H notebook was completely destroyed but also her family research shared the same fate.

I feel badly that my work is lost. A lot of bad things have happened in my life, so this is far from the worst. My roommate’s coworker has not reached out to express regret, probably because of her other losses, far greater than the loss of my C&H notebook. I’m wondering whether eventually she should offer me a C&H book to somehow compensate me , although they may not be the same comics I had in my notebook (there were hundreds of comics).However, because of the coworker’s greater loss, I have not said anything.

Lately, I’ve been thinking the real culprit is my roommate who took the notebook to his office without my permission and procrastinated returning it to me.

What do YOU think?