Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 28, 2023

Or you’ll be made to do it again until you get it right.

Calvin’s obstacle course…..

Let’s hear it for incompetence!

Looks like it’s Dad’s turn to build character.

One flaw: how’s Calvin going to get back inside the warm house if he blocked the front door with a mound of snow?

Through the window he left open.

That usually backfires terribly. Not good advice.

A plan of sorts

Somehow this doesn’t seem to apply to Congress.

Looks like the path Billy from Family Circus would take.

I used to have staff with that philosophy.

Doesn’t explain why so many politicians are reelected.

Too bad that dosen’t apply to politics.

Or you get told to do it again, and do it right this time. (See today’s Luann Againn)

Do it right once, and it becomes your job.

Reminds me of Ron from P&R: “I’d work all night, if it helps someone else do nothing”

Didn’t work for Brad over in Luann Again.

And sometimes you’re forced to do it over and over till you get it right.

Don’t think it’s going to work in your case, Calvin!

That was a lot of work just to do it wrong.

Sabotage! But I’m sure Dd knows what you’re up to!

It’s why I never have to do the dishes.

Accent on “sometimes.” Sometimes you get forced to do it over, correctly. With a blistered tush. Which, that no longer is a deterrent for some of us. lol

So he’s saying Slow Joe won’t run in the next presidential election. The Count didn’t realize Captain Obvious’s first name was Calvin.

Ha! It didn’t work for Brad!

After initially procrastinating about starting the work.

Actually I think you did a great job ( for a kid ,that is)

I worked with that guy.

That approach only works if firing you isn’t an option…

Calvin sure did a lot of shoveling to get out of shoveling.

or sometimes you get to do nothing useful or necessary for a career, raise a completely dysfunctional family, reinvent your resume in every speech you ever make, and eventually wander around a white house completely mindless, and have almost a whole world wonder whose your keeper and actually running the show. I guess if it happened to at least one person, and they got extremely rich doing it, it can happen to you Calvin. "here’s your sign’ – Go For IT!!! js

This USUALLY works – unless you’re in politics…

Yeah, had I done something like that my dad would have used my butt for bongos…

My father would have kicked me so hard in the butt, my nose would have bled.

But sometimes you’re told to do it until you get it right.

“If you don’t like your job you don’t strike – you just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That’s the American way!”

Calvin – The Snow Whisperer…

I’m always amazed at the number of people who do that and still move up the ladder of success.

My experience was to do it again, and again, and again.

….and sometimes you get a butt whooping!

I’ve done this at work. They put me in a dept. I didn’t want to be in, so I purposely screwed up the work.

My Dad would just make you do it over again. Duh!

It still won’t convince your dad to buy a snowblower.

Today snowballs, tomorrow snow goons, bwahaha!

If you always do your best, then your best becomes the usual, and people want more.

Calvin is leaking Classified info from the ‘Every Man and Boy’s Handbook’!! Shame on him!!

That’s my motto

love Calvin’s logic…

Or make you do it again, parent’s are smart.

Or most times you have to go and do it right.

Or you are told to do it again the right way, double the work…

Yeah, try that in the military…

Calvin has discovered the principle of ‘reverse psychology’.

Heh, yeah, but it’s too bad Calvin didn’t consider doing the job badly that way would take much longer than shoveling the walk the right way.

Dad asked for it. I think it is mean to ask a six year old to showel the pathways for saving few dollars, though it builds character. But then you need to differentiate between a commoner and Calvin.

Did he read Luann Again today? Or did Brad read this?

And sometime they just increase the supervision.

If only Dad offered a cash incentive..

The logic seems sound, but sometimes you do get asked to wash, rinse, and repeat. Ask anyone that works in Washington, D.C.

The general ploy of most guys. :D

Or, told to do them over.

Isn’t that Brad’s rationale over on today’s “Luann Again?”

https://www.gocomics.com/luann-againn/2023/01/28

Actually, this is the way that management shovels snow in our apartment parking lot.

So very very true.