Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 20, 2019

Another reason why Calvin is an only child. Mom probably is in no mood with this guy.

Wouldn’t have been nice if Hobbes tagged along on the little fishing trip? Tigers love to eat fish.

I haven’t camped in many years, and don’t plan to do so again, ever. But one thing I recall about sleeping in a sleeping bag inside a tent is that I had no desire to sleep late.

I’m a lifelong camper AND I like to sleep in. Both eminently achievable goals!

More than a dad he seems Sarge Snorkel from Beetle Bailey .

6:30 am?! Meh. That’s usually about the time I go to bed…

Small mouthed bass – that is base.

My mom was a “morning” person. Unfortunately for us, her idea of “morning” started at about 4 AM. You’d stumble out of bed on a Saturday at 8 because she “let you sleep in” (instead of 7 for school days) and she’d already be yelling “Come on! The day’s half gone!”

“No, we’re just going to waste the whole morning. That’s all.”

Dad, this is your vacation. Go enjoy it and let us enjoy what we want to do.

As opposed to the largemouth flapping his gums at 6:30 AM?

Good job dad. It must have been a real ecological pleasure to torture the fish who twirl in agony when you extract the hook from their living flesh and they suffer several hours before dying.

I’d be mad at him. Even though it is, as I said yesterday, what humanizes him, it can also be very annoying.

If you keep doing this, you’ll soon be sleeping with the fishes, Dad!

Fish for breakfast – Mmmm!

Mom should take one of those fish and slap Dad with it.

“Camping”= Staying at Motel 6 as opposed to the Ramada!

Aren’t us “morning people” awesome?

I pretty much can’t sleep past 5:30 so yes, by 6:30 I’ve been swilling coffee for awhile and am considering breakfast.

Fishing is like being in protective custody with a chance of drowning.

Roughing it: Black & White TV. Dad should have went by himself. Everyone would’ve been happy.

“Morning People” need to be taken out back and beaten severely about the head and shoulders for several hours. ESPECIALLY “Perky Morning People”.

Appropriately, it’s 6:35 when I’m reading this. I need to get out early so I can walk five miles to a county fair on an island.

Those look a lot more like trout than smallmouth bass.

What, she didn’t have the coffee ready!

Nothing worse than someone cheerful in the morning, camping or not.

Yes

My dad in the 1960s! Bass fishing on Brandt Lake in the Adirondacks in 1964 early enough to see sunrise. Only consolation: I caught the biggest bass. Last time we did that. Wish I had know that’s what it took sooner.

Those are trout, Dad. Of course, I say the same thing every time I see this particular ’toon.

There’s going to be a loudmouth father getting thrown in the lake in a minute or two.

I seem to remember a sequence when dad lost his glasses overboard. Just deserts! (Probably not this story arc, though: I think it was raining in that one.)

I guess Dad decided alone where to go on vacation….

Come on! It’s only for a few days. :-D

I love Calvin’s hair in the last panel!

That’s the problem dad. What you find pleasure does not percolate down the family. That’s the truth we need to understand. Try going to camping with friends instead.

sleeping in is one of the best parts of a vacation

Those don’t look like very big smallmouth bass – I doubt they are even legal! And bass doesn’t cook up very well anyway – better off throwing all those mealy bass back and only keeping the trout!