When I was a kid, I didn’t pay much attention to the text and couldn’t tell the bed was still unmade, so I assumed that the robot had made the bed while Calvin and Hobbes weren’t looking.
As one who learned the hard way, Calvin— There’s a certain exhilaration attached to sleeping in a well-made bed. Not quite the same as flopping into a sloppy one.
You make the bed to unmake the bed to make the bed to unmake the bed, etc. etc. Silliest damned waste of time ever invented. The next silliest is spending a ton of money to make your grass grow then spend another ton to keep it from growing. I don’t participate in either illogical endevour.
This story arc reminds me of the Propeller Beanie story arc from earlier this year. Both times, Calvin was disappointed that reality didn’t live up to his imagination but both times he had a happy ending.
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
Mission Accomplished!
Kaputnik over 4 years ago
And thus, at an early age, I learned the value of procrastination.
Sugar Bombs 95 over 4 years ago
When I was a kid, I didn’t pay much attention to the text and couldn’t tell the bed was still unmade, so I assumed that the robot had made the bed while Calvin and Hobbes weren’t looking.
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 4 years ago
Tomorrow you will have to come up with another diversionary tactic.
Watcher over 4 years ago
Failure at one mission leads to success in another. Good thinking Calvin.
rshive over 4 years ago
As one who learned the hard way, Calvin— There’s a certain exhilaration attached to sleeping in a well-made bed. Not quite the same as flopping into a sloppy one.
Bilan over 4 years ago
Now, Calvin can spend all of tomorrow trying to make the robot work and coming up with the same results.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 4 years ago
You make the bed to unmake the bed to make the bed to unmake the bed, etc. etc. Silliest damned waste of time ever invented. The next silliest is spending a ton of money to make your grass grow then spend another ton to keep it from growing. I don’t participate in either illogical endevour.
AJ2016 over 4 years ago
Success through Procrastination.
Calvinist1966 over 4 years ago
This story arc reminds me of the Propeller Beanie story arc from earlier this year. Both times, Calvin was disappointed that reality didn’t live up to his imagination but both times he had a happy ending.
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
Feels like serendipity.
ekw555 over 4 years ago
the glass is half full! maybe even more than half!
Bacon’s revenge over 4 years ago
Failure leads into success
enigmamz over 4 years ago
I like how all the story arcs here end the same way I remember them ending.
beymly over 4 years ago
I’ll look up the meaning of procrastination later.
zeexenon over 4 years ago
Another bad night coming up entangled in sheets and blankets and hopefully the strangling pillowcase.
Dooger over 4 years ago
Success in failure.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 4 years ago
A robot named “MOM” .
Scoutmaster77 over 4 years ago
In a manner of speaking…
JohnFarson19 over 4 years ago
Gotta love kids. They spend three hours and 10 times the effort to avoid a 10 minute task. Bless their brain damaged hearts.
Snoots over 4 years ago
Yeah why make a bed anyway? It’ll just get messed up again tonight. Why do you think we keep them hidden in back rooms?
john_chubb over 4 years ago
I’m closing in on 50 years old, and I haven’t ever made my bed, not even one single time.
It doesn’t seem to have done me any lasting harm.