Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 01, 2019

Six weeks? Life before Amazon Prime.

Calvin must not know the different between a week and a decade.

Look on the bright side, Calvin: at least your toy is free.

6 weeks to a 6-year old is how long????

Tell Mom to go out and buy you one and that you will give her yours when it comes in the mail.

If I recall about tomorrow Calvin — after retuning home form school — will ask his mother if his beanie came in the mail. “Are you kidding,” she asks, “I just mailed your order this morning.” “I’ll never make it six weeks,” he devastatingly groans.

When he’s in the rest home, he’ll ask “Do I have cancer?” and the doctor will say “I’ll let you know in 6 weeks.”

Don’t worry, you’ll still be six after six weeks. The beanie fad, however, will be gone!

Good News: Calvin is going to get his beanie.

Bad News: It’t going to take six weeks for delivery.

Worse News: That’s a lot long than it’s going to last.

That will allow plenty of time for Hobbs to morph into a sea serpent. He will have to change his name, though.

Mmmph

This is how I feel when concert tickets go on sale 6 months to a year in advance. I mean, what if there’s a zombie apocalypse before then?

I don’t understand why he had to eat all of that cereal. Once it was purchased, you could remove the proofs of purchase and eat the cereal at your leisure. Been there, done that. You just need to make sure not to pierce the bag so it does not go stale.

I remember thinking as a kid that a month might as well be forever! Now if I hear, “it’ll be a couple of years” I’m thinking, “That’s not long.”

Calvin does not have an accurate idea about time.

Ha, in six weeks Calvin will be too old for the beanie.

if I recall, the beanie is much to be desired.

I remember ordering stuff from comics books when i was that age and it took F-O-R-E-V-E-R for stuff to arrive.

This is worse than waiting for the next Pendergast novel, or Jack Reacher novel, or the next Blacklist season. Six weeks for me is an eternity, and I’m much older than Calvin.

That’s Hobbes. Always with a soothing word.

Those promotional offers did take forever , I ordered a T-Shirt from Kraft Mac n Cheese my lord it was Months to arrive. So long I had forgot about it completely . The Girl I got it for and I had stopped seeing each other by then . Stupid Shirt

I remember how this worked as a kid: You think about it non-stop for maybe two weeks straight then give up and forget. The day it shows up it’s a big, happy surprise.

“Have Spacesuit, Will Travel” had a similar story line. But the hero had to collect wrappers from bars of soap.

I may be wrongly remembering things, but didn’t companies used to allow “reasonable facsimiles” of proofs of purchase and boxtops? This would be the days before widespread use of copiers, of course, but hand-drawn pictures could be used. I believe I did that on one occasion.

6 weeks will give him enough time to wake from his sugar coma

I remember those days! We ordered Beanie and Cecil caps with a rotor blade that popped off. You could send messages in the top! I guess they were worth the wait for 8 year-olds.

I went thru an almost identical thing at his age-got my Mom to buy several boxes of Frosted Flakes to get a plastic Tony the Tiger. It finally arrived, and it was sooo anticlimactic. I think I played with it for a total of 20 seconds. [now he slowly rots in some Cleveland landfill for the rest of eternity]

Calvin, you stay busy with playing 6 weeks will fly by. Another adventure is needed.

Those things always said to allow 6 to 8 weeks

I can’t imagine todays kids waiting six weeks for delivery of a toy.

Rosalyn missing without a trace. Was she erased ask law enforcement who attempt to redraw her actions. Is she just another runaway asks Forensic Files as they attempt to color in the blank spaces. In other news: Unknown female student goes berserk after failing exam at Chagrin Falls college.

He’s only 6 years old so his sense of time compression is distorted, but even so 6 weeks isn’t THAT much time, it is significant though.

BUT WAIT!!! If you order now (and only pay shipping) you can get….

In six weeks, Calvin will probably have forgotten all about the beanie.

I sure ate a lot of Wheaties to get the boxtops for a Ft. Apache figure set. I don’t recall how long it was between sending them in and getting the set. I still have them.

Calvin believes in instant gratification.

For a child six weeks is too long. Calvin is right in that sense.

I love the reassuring pat from Hobbes.