Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 14, 2009

She beat him to it, this time…

Marg - We were worried about you. For crying out loud do not assume that you have a life without us. If you plan to go someplace, then for crying out loud, let us know. Lecture over, bend over for punishment.

“I was just asking!” Isn’t that an old ‘saw’, Calvin?

At least Calvin has the concern to take permission from mom!

Cleo, yousure know the right things to say, you tease….

Now mom has to clean up the mess from the dropped paint can. She should have asked Calvin to join in the painting she was doing. Whatever problems that could have created would probably be less than what she faces now.

Hopefully the next comic explains why the couch was too wide. Maybe our imaginations could come up with something better. It makes me a little crazy when the next cartoon moves on to a totally different subject altogether.

Dino-1 - the couch is to wide to be used as sled.

At least he didn’t say “Don’t you think the living room couch WAS too wide”

After finishing hammering in a nail, handed over the hammer to my son, to keep it back. He chose to take it to his room instead, and hammer a nail on a plain wall instead. :)

Mom should thank her stars that he actually asked!

jeez first he tracks mud all over it now he wants to saw it >.< calvin, i worry what you will be like when you grow up… IF you get that far

VIBJYOR Give Calvin paint?!? And Calvin would do what?!?

Dino-1: Please don’t get crazy! (Okay, maybe just a little.) I think Calvin just wanted an excuse to use the saw.It’s amazing that he did even bother to ask first. I think any follow-up to this would be anticlimactic.

All those tools are just sitting around not being used.

Too wide for what?

Lewreder

If mom asks him to help with painting, atleast he will be within sight and she will know he is not taking a saw to reduce the width of the couch.

Kids (of course not necessarily Calvin) would benefit from parental guidance in doing routine stuff in the house. This is an opportunity for her to provide Calvin with it. He could put the first coat on for instance.

I could just imagine him going ahead and sawing the couch. When she said, “Why did you do that?” he’d say, “You never told me I couldn’t!”

I’m sure if Mom had Calvin “helping” her with the painting, he’d have more paint on himself than on that little cabinet in no time. Which leads me to another issue about that little cabinet–she is ALWAYS painting it. But then, I realize that she never gets to finish it, so she is always picking up where she left off. I hope it’s washable Latex paint, and not the oil based stuff.

Ya’ know I don’t believe in putting kids on leashes, but for Calvin, I think and exception should be made

It’s obviously too wide to fit between the branes keeping Calvin from entering a parallel universe. He must have misplaced the transmogrifier. Either that or he just felt a need to practice his sawing technique.

At least this time he asked first! :-)

Mom and son could do a project together bonding time. Calvin could talk to mom and both get to know each other better. To bad dad can’t do this with Calvin do a project and bond.

Bond?? Calvin??

it is strange that calvin asked…..

who are you and what have you done with the real calvin

Hey! When you’re six your and sit on the couch your feet stick straight out there. He just thought it was “fitting” to cut it down to six-year-old size!

To a kid with a saw, everything appears to need shortening.

This is a corollary to the saying that “to a kid with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

I think it’s cute how he wants to reshape the world.

Clif3 said: “To a kid with a saw, everything appears to need shortening”.

Calvin’s fingers too ???

How did he get his hands on that saw? Wasn’t he told never to play with sharp objects? I sure was!

ah…she knows her little angel all too well! :-D

We were allowed to do the inside of closets. With a brush, none of this namby pamby roller stuff. We then progressed to baseboards, however, we’re missing the point here, Calvin is a comic and therefore destined to be a sneaky rat fink for eternity.

Is Mom and Dad scared of our little darling Calvin ?

That is, MatureCanadian, until he uses his transmogrifier to create a good twin of himself and make things even more interesting for a while.

I just like how he thinks the saw is hidden there behind his back!

DD FENCE EMET said, “Wide is the couch that leads to destruction” You’re couching your words in subtle nuances of meaning. Calvin had a few ideas; he just wanted to narrow it down. “Narrow is the way which leads unto life,…”

good luck Calvin

face it , calvin is a kid and kids do the darnest things. maybe he is a professional home decorator at heart. have you seen some of the stuff they do?

I saw Esau, sitting on a see-saw I saw Esau with my girl I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw Giving her a merry whirl When I saw Esau, he saw me Then I saw red and got so sore That I got a saw and I sawed Esau Off that old see-saw!

The ‘jig’ is up; Mom saw the saw! She looks ‘cross’; she’s going to ‘rip’ into him good.

Oh, Puddleglum2! That was good. Mom seems to be ‘coping’ well today, and able to ‘hack’ it.

Now you’ve got me doing it.

It looks to me like Mom has tossed paint and brush all over in panel 3. I hope Calvin lets her know that throwing paint in the house is unacceptable behavior.

Doctor Calvin furniture surgeon . Cut rate prices .

Just give him Dad’s Chainsaw and see what happens then.

mom knows her son,he asks her something crazy and she knows that she better find out what he’s doing.

I got it figured out I love Calvin Wish could only say nice things about him but he is such a little stinker sometimes

Ask mom a hypotheyical question and she gets all worked up….The saw? just a coincidence. Never seen anyone walk around with a saw behind his back? I see it all the time…

thebird55, You kept the ‘chain’ going. I won’t tell you to ‘cut’ it out. However, we might have ‘cutting’ remarks directed at us. “Birds of a feather flock together.” A Marsh-wiggle isn’t a bird, but it does have webbed feet.

laughter is the best panacia…keep up the good work…

watcha: Too wide for a sled! I never went in that direction. That would make sense now that the summer vacation’s over thoughts would turn to things to do in the snow! Ray C: Yes he did it again! Onto another line of thought! Ok I’m centering myself. It’s imagination time…..

ROTFLMAO THATS RICH

Maybe Calvin was kidding, just to see if his mom’s blood pressure would rise higher than usual.