Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 03, 2021

Getting Hobbes to eat him sounds like the more entertaining option.

List of what you’re wearing? You wear the same thing everyday!

Thanks for everything Mom

Whatta trip! A corded, rotary-dialed wall-phone. Kids these days are flummoxed by a rotary dialed phone. They often can’t figure out how to make it work!

I used to have one of those wall phones, & with the extra long cord that seemed to often wind up & tangle all on its own.

♪♪"Stool Pigeon"♪♪ ~ Kid Creole and the Coconuts…..

Probably true. I recall a little boy in grade school walking blocks out of the way on his way home from elementary school to avoid an ambush by the waiting school bully. Told to me by a friend, of course.

Last year, a teacher caught someone bullying my son and made him file a report over it. Then they brought the bully in and said “don’t do that” and he said “okay”, and then the bully told his bully friends that my son tattled, and then he had 5 kids bullying him throughout the day. The original kid only messed with him during a single class.

The school will suspend Calvin more than likely. That is usually what happens.

Dial M for Murder? :D

It seems that Calvin knows the phrase “Snitches get stitches”…

Hey, if Mom can’t fix it nobody can.

Did Mom ever get Moe’s bullying sorted?

I’ve never heard of a good solution to bullying. Does anyone know effective responses to it?

Mom also is a bully, Calvin!

Bullying is in my experience, about control of people, which as a concept makes it quite possible for organisations to bully people as much as people who work for them do it.

So when you have some organisation HR demanding that any complaint about bullying by a manager be done the ‘right’ way, they are just carrying on with the bullying themselves.

Oh gawd, I was Calvin when I was a kid. Bullied and ADHD. Bad combination.

I was appalled that my affluent second wife and her adult children thought that stealing in the form of shoplifting was an acceptable “prank”. If you cannot tell the difference between mine and yours, your education is incomplete.

Identifying mark—Mom should have let Calvin get that tattoo.

I remember getting into a fight with a kid at school. He started it. The next day that kid was gone never to be seen again. I figure he got expelled because he was such a trouble maker.

Calvin needed a big brother to stand up for him. Thx big brother.

I don’t get the “what I’m wearing” part.

Grown-ups only make the problem worse!

Rotary dial phone?

Hey let Larry and Curley know what Moe is up to and they will take care of it. Calvin is off the hook.

How do adults forget what it is like being a child?

Snitches get stitches was known even then.

Who did squeal on Moe? It’s gonna be a dark day until he finds out who.

In my day the teacher, the counsellor and even the principal told me to “handle it yourself.” I did. The bully ended the day in hospital with a bloody nose, a broken jaw, two broken teeth, a broken arm, and a broken knife. I may have been the smallest kid in the class but I was also the youngest purple belt in my karate classes. The two weeks were worth it. He never bothered me, my friends or anybody at the school after he got back.