Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 01, 2010

Mom just won’t listen…

Wow a kid who likes the crusts!!!

Make them yourself and you’ll get what you want, tho’ I’m not sure the knife would get through today’s metal detectors lolz.

Morning Marg and the rest of the gang!

Time to get my daily Pibby fix :D

Oh, she heard him, margueritem; she just doesn’t care.

If His Majesty wants to start packing his own lunches, I’m sure that Mom wouldn’t have any problem at all with supplying him with the necessary equipment.

legaleagle48—-You’re right on the mark! In the meantime, it will be another, “Doggone it, she did it again” day in the lunchroom.

Mom did the right thing. Calvin didn’t say the magic word, “PLEASE!”

Wait a minute! Only use the end pieces? After making one sandwich, there’s no end pieces left! Now what?

@ pouncingtiger, my feelings exactly, Calvin is going to have a short life with that altitude :-)

kreole alone detected the fatal flaw in Calvin’s scheme!

I hated the crusts. If the crust around the edge wasn’t aleady cut off, I just wouldn’t eat it. Good luck getting it your way, Calvin. It’s like going to McDonalds.

somebodyshort, that might have been me. When I lived in Canada, I always had my burgers with mustard and extra pickle when I went to Harveys. Sometimes banana pepper too. But I always had their onion rings. Loved them!

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

When I was a child, it was soon after the second world war and people were poor, my parents too, and every day my mum gave me a bread with pig grease to school, always the same for years!!

kreole: after Mom uses the “end pieces” there is left a part loaf with a piece at each end which become the “new end pieces”.

With only slight tweaking, Calvin could have gotten at least half of what he wanted. The simple use of the word “please” could well have gotten him his jelly in a separate container. That might even make it easier for Mom. The crust only bit - not so much.

When I was a child, it was PBJ every day, and yes, it got soggy. Fortunately, I liked it that way.

Calvin’s mom did the classic thing.

The most effective way to annoy someone without subjecting yourself into emotional overdrive:

Pretend you are listening, agree on everything and do nothing.

White bread is unacceptable, since it’s lacking in nutritive value, but even most whole-grain breads have white bread consistency. I prefer more grainy breads, and the end pieces. I almost always toast the bread. Calvin’s “request” was fairly polite for him, and not unreasonable, but ‘please’ should be highly encouraged, …required, even. - Snagglepuss Mom’s ‘ignoreance’ is unfortunate; it’s equivalent to Dad’s recent response to Calvin’s number-guessing game. A spoon should get ‘through customs’ easier than a knife. BTW, natural foods almost invariably taste better, once a person acquires a taste for them.

LX013 : Mr. Wonderful used to have lard and sugar sandwiches…a real treat!

I’m not fond of the end slices, but they make good hamburger buns, or hotdog buns.

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I’m sure Mom is thinking: “Yeah, I’ll Get Right On That.”

Are you guys high? (I am) Mom stooped listening when Calvin got to “soggy.” AND I’m sure Calvin expected a new loaf for each sandwich. FURTHERMORE If the lunchroom doesen’t provide silverware, they usually wil plasticware. FINALLY, you won’t bring a knife and probably not a spoon made of metal. Try a spork or plastic knife or fold a piece of paper several times until it is firm enough to spread warm jelly. That was fun! The snow melted. YAY!

Mom deserves a medal for not strangling Calvin as he speaks.

Grog– The story I always heard was that bread crusts gave you curly hair.

I was like Calvin, I couldn’t stand my bread soggy… I always put peanut butter on both sides of my bread to protect it!!!!!

Wow… can’t believe Mom did not get it right after those precise instructions!!

Jalapeno jelly would fix his wagon!

pouncingtiger said mom did right because Calvin didn’t say Please. Who’s fault is it that Calvin doesn’t know to say please? Have you ever seen Mom try to correct Calvin’s behavvior or teach him manners. By doing what she has with the sandwich she is behaving more like a six year old than Calvin. But that’s the humor of the comic strip.

the birth of yet another food critic.

LX013 We shouldn’t complain about some jelly leaking through the bread….bless you.

Those lard and sugar sandwiches were necessary for my dad’s family also, back in the days when ice still got delivered by wagon. Unfortunately, they all ended up with heart trouble …

If you put butter on the jelly side first then the bread won’t get soggy.

Hint for anyone making PB&J that isn’t going to get eaten immediately:

Instead of putting all the peanut butter on one slice of bread, spread half on one slice, half on the other. Then add the jelly. Having peanut butter on both slices of bread prevents both slices from getting soggy.

And I like the end pieces for plain bread and butter. Or plain toast and butter. Yummers.

… And I well remember the narcissism of youth. We had no idea how much mom and dad were smoothing the way for us by doing all those little things. Then when we tried to add one more “little thing” to the list - a small, simple request really - we’re surprised when they laugh in our face or tell us where we can stick it.

And then there were the times they would ask us to start doing some of the little things ourselves, and we were outraged by their audacity.

It’s tough for a kid learning for the first time they’re not the center of the universe. :)

What mom heard - wah wah wah wah wah wah wahwah, did I hear please? no, wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.

And yes, it would have been a plastic knife Calvin would have gotten if mom wanted to bend to his every request. Agreed, if he made his own lunch then he can have it as he pleases. Otherwise, he’s going to have to go to a resturant.

This is sort of where OCD begins.

LOL. I can completely relate to this.

GrumblyWalnut: This with the heart trouble is correct. Most relatives died by heart attack !!

Didn’t anyone notice that Calvin was having lunch with Suzi? Is this a lunch date?

please would be nice, I have always found it easier both in getting the jelly out of the jar, and spreading it with a spoon. getting a plastic spoon shouldn’t hurt anything. I can’t believe he likes Heels Yech I’m the exact opposite, I hate heels and prefer the middle of the loaf, his mom was being nice.

Ahh, the memories. Every day after getting off the school bus (we lived way out in the country), I would fix myself a bread and mayonnaise sandwich snack. As I ate it washed down with a glass of home grown milk, I would listen to Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, Superman, Green Hornet, Sky King, or what ever else was on the radio that afternoon.

Gourmet Calvin - what kinda sammiches does the Tiger like?

khpage, why tuna fish of course.

My first hello. You folks know truth and have fun.

I love it, giving orders to Mom might get you some different lunches or NOT

If this were Birdbrains, I’d say, “I’m offended”. (Local in-joke.)

These days, even bringing a plastic knife or fork to school will get you sent to the police, not just the principal, for weapons possession. He would have to get one in the lunchroom, and probably have to be searched if he didn’t turn it in or throw it away in the proper receptacle before he could leave.

Parents were born to serve children.

If I had said “got it?” to my Mom I would not have lived to eat another peanut butter and jelly sandwich or anything else for that matter.

Something like this is what happens when you’re only looking out for #1! That’s when you really find out who’s “#1” then!!!!!

”Please” might have helped……………but then again, it is Mom!

The ends are good for toast, too.

Today he’d be expelled for bringing a butter knife to school.

no, calvin. she didn’t get it.

Foxglove42 - Both Mom and Dad do try to correct Calvin’s manners (notably when he belches at the table and neglects to ask for a pardon). Bit surprised Calvin didn’t compare his (presumably) squidgy PBJ to something’s brains in front of Suzi though!

maybe please would work…………….