Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 09, 2015

Calvin, never volunteer for anything.

Believe it Calvin. You’ve got someone spying on you.

Oh you’ve been had.

Hello, Tom Sawyer.

Well done, madam, very well done. I am dazzled by your ingenuity.

Just don’t try to vacuum up water with it.That will destroy the machine unless it’s made for it.I’ve seen first hand what water can do to a vacuum cleaneras I have a friend that repairs them.

Miss Wormwood should be taking notes.

I was certainly running the sweeper around at age 6-7. Putting dishes in the dishwasher, too.

The wife of my eldest son went to work in her job. He has to do now much of the housework. So he bought a robot vacuum cleaner. Some days ago I visited him and he showed me very proudly his new cleaner and said, this does the whole work allone!!

My sons were very inventiv. We had an old telefon. I bought a key and blocked the telephone, so they could not use it, for they phoned very much and that was expensive, and I hided the key. But one day I came home and one of them stood there and phoned!! They had discovered, how to open it. I had the key and they phoned!!

You got suckered boy.

Bad move on mom’s part!

But I won’t need any help painting the fence.

Wow, she just pulled a Tom Sawyer on him!

Shame on you Mom, for pulling a stunt like that on Calvin!

What did Calvin do to deserve such treatment?

Oh wait, let me think on this for a moment…

If he did a bad job of it, she won’t have him do it again.

I hate vacuum cleaning, it sucks!

When my sons were young, we had a huge backyard, over an acre, an excellent baseball field. The older son could not wait until he was old enough to cut the grass with the riding mower. After cautioning him to give wide berth to the trees and teaching him how to kill the engine, he started at age 8, did a great job thereafter. The mower survived his efforts and died of natural causes at an old age.

That suppressed smile is hiding the urge to shout “GOTCHA!”

I’ve never understand how one can make a vacuum cleaner. By definition, doesn’t a vacuum already have nothing in it? ;-)

Calvin is as dumb as Elmer Fudd. Hahahaha!

Our oldest Grandson used our hand helded Dirt Devil to vacuum our couch when he was around 2 years old. He thought it was ‘cool’ at the time.

Somewhere there’s an old, old picture of me standing on a chair in front of the kitchen sink happily washing dishes!

Now Calvin should be able to clean up his own messes before mom sees them.

Mom better be careful; if Calvin figures out what’s going on he may decide to whitewash the rug instead of vacuuming it….

And that’s how the work starts….

Who said Calvin wasn’t helpful around the house?

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Where is Hobbes? I miss him today!!

They are adults now and they do nothing against me any more, they love their mother! But their skills are important and appreciated in their jobs, they are successful! I’m lucky with them!!

My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.She asked, ’What’s on TV?’I said, ‘Dust.’And that’s when the fight started…

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace Expensive… So, I took her to a gas station.And that’s when the fight started…

I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our anniversary?”It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said.So I suggested, “How about the kitchen?”And that’s when the fight started…

Such a cute comic, kids love to “help” when they’re little.

Time-warp to a grown-up Calvin, married to Susie, and happy to help with the housework.

Yesterday I put realy stuffed animal in a plastic bag, but without cleaner! They lay in winter on my windowsill and protect from draft, in summer they are in the bag!

Oh Calvin, what have you done??