Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 26, 2013

Hot seat ??

I remember those days only too well!

Cal On A Hot Tin Slide

They always faced south, so they’d get extra hot.

good time to wax the slide!

Better go for a jump into the pool!

We used to take sheets of waxed paper to sit on. Not only did it protect your legs a bit, after a couple of slides you zipped down that thing!

it’s raining all night and day .. in Thailand….

A really clever guy would anticipate an even hotter second glide, caused by friction, not so, Calvin ?

his parents should take him to a pool that has a slide.

these days, many of the tall metal slides are being replaced with shorter “tube” slides. There is too much concern that kids’ll fall off or else have to experience a hot seat like Calvin…..

those old metal sliding boards were always that way. They needed to be placed in the shady part of the park.

♪♫Hot Fun In the Summertime…♫

I know what to do, get a gunnysack and put it under the butt.

makes up for wearing your swimsuit when you go sledriding…and get dumped in the lake!

…and the idea for the slip-n-slide was born….

I think I make that same face (panel 2) when I sit down the the black leather seats of my convertiable after being parked in the sun with the top down.

The last time I checked, it was called a slide, not a ride, Calvin. Lol

Doesn’t he ever wear shorts?

“On the hottest days you need the heaviest pants.”That is Calvin’s slide rule.

@Dha Dha,That sounds like monsoon weather.

I have not commented nor read the comments busy with on-line studies. What happened to Hobbes the commentator.Calvin is right the ride is boiling hot. When I walked outside wearing rubber sole shoes for walking two separate pairs on bottom melted and tore up.

Me, too. :-))

Sand helped smooth the slides too—even if it didn’t do much for the heat. But on hot days, the swings were better—you always had some sort of breeze.

Deja vu for me here… I used to be terrified of the slide when I was 4 years old.

When I got a bit older I started to love it and it was the only thing I would go on in the park.

xxx

Oh yeah! I remember those days at school. We’d take the wax paper from our sandwiches & use it.

You know it’s terminal when you hear screeching all the way down!

Maybe Hobbes-the-commenter got a life. But I miss her too.

I remember those days,OUCH!

Actually Puddleglum2, that quote says that the earth is flat. A circle is a 2-D geometric figure. The earth is a sphere (or more nearly an oblate spheroid).

I wasn’t into slides, but my parent’s car had vinyl seats. Now that’s hot AND sticky!

Especially the metal slides.

I remember those days. Slide is too hot to ride due to the sun, and it is too hot outside to wear anything other than shorts, and it is too expensive to go to the pool (and mom is afraid of the risk of drowning).

Calvin’s mistake was hesitating. Just start sliding as soon as the butt touches metal.

Reminds me of recess time back in my grade school days. Hot sun, metal slide…who would have thought…

Burned butt