Whatever does not kill you will make you stronger Calvin and that includes maniacal bikes, snow goons and yes even your Dad especially when he gets on a rant about building character.
Speaking of camps, my kids loved going to camp. They went to music camps, sports camps, horseback riding camps, theatre, etc. … We couldn’t find enough hours in the summer for all the camps they wanted. Some were sleep over ones, some were day camps. Plus with going to the grandparents homes for about two weeks every summer, those two months just flew by. Our next door neightbor’s kids didn’t go to any, and their little boy was here every single day asking if our son was back yet… I realized that he missed playing with our son’s toys, so I let him go to his room and stay there for an hour or so, while his mom and I had a coffee on the porch…
When I was learning to ride a bike I coasted down hill into a telephone pole. I panicked and didn’t use the brake. Neither the bike nor I was seriously harmed. I still wonder how we avoided that.
I admit there were times as I was leaving for work and thinking I should never come back. Unfortunately I did come home, not because of the children they were the only reason I came home.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
The country was coming out of a recession in 1993.
codycab over 1 year ago
If it was Dad’s idea then obviously because (you guessed it!) it builds character!
TampaFanatic1 over 1 year ago
Whatever does not kill you will make you stronger Calvin and that includes maniacal bikes, snow goons and yes even your Dad especially when he gets on a rant about building character.
Bilan over 1 year ago
Dad is clever. Nobody would suspect a bicycle of being a Filicide-for-hire.
jmworacle over 1 year ago
Besides who would want the spirit of Calvin Hanging around.
lalapalooza Premium Member over 1 year ago
>selling the house and moving while kid is at camp
o m g you can do that?!
figuratively speaking over 1 year ago
Dad’s thinking about all the angles. I believe Calvin respects that.
Troglodyte over 1 year ago
Trust good ol’ Hobbes to come up with interesting possibilities! :D
win.45mag over 1 year ago
Cal, you’re not Daffy Duck. You’re real. Your head won’t go THRU the tree, more likely, just wrap around it like a big dallop of smashed strawberries.
lmuller7 over 1 year ago
Gotta blame ! It’s not, MY, fault !
jagedlo over 1 year ago
Building a case for paranoia, Calvin?
snsurone76 over 1 year ago
The house just might sell as a fixer-upper.
A Hip loving Canadian... over 1 year ago
It’s all part of Dad’s plan to finally get the dog he always wanted.
dflak over 1 year ago
We sent our sons off to college and then moved. They found us anyway.
aerotica69 over 1 year ago
I wonder why Mom and Dad never thought of sending Calvin to camp?
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago
I prefer to believe the “Christine” bike is simply acting in self-defense. She knows a stinker when she sees one.
Redd Panda over 1 year ago
Parents move and leave you behind, well I guess we’ve all gone through that.
My folks would move, but I always found them. }:-)
g04922 over 1 year ago
Hobbes gets it… LOL. The ‘Possessed’ bike… sounds like a Stephen King novel.
pixiekitten Premium Member over 1 year ago
The snow goons didn’t work so he had to get a bike to take care of Calvin, obviously.
French Persons Premium Member over 1 year ago
Getting Calvin a bike, hoping to “bump him off”… there’s a lot less guilt with that than there is with putting him into foster care.
mindjob over 1 year ago
Dad was seen handing the bike a suitcase of unmarked bills
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Maybe Calvin will come home from school one day and find an empty house (except for Hobbes, of course) and no forwarding address.
wiley207 over 1 year ago
Calvin’s a pretty funny conspiracy theorist!
scott_t over 1 year ago
For a kid who rides a wagon down death gulch he sure does have a lot of issues with a bike.
1JennyJenkins over 1 year ago
Speaking of camps, my kids loved going to camp. They went to music camps, sports camps, horseback riding camps, theatre, etc. … We couldn’t find enough hours in the summer for all the camps they wanted. Some were sleep over ones, some were day camps. Plus with going to the grandparents homes for about two weeks every summer, those two months just flew by. Our next door neightbor’s kids didn’t go to any, and their little boy was here every single day asking if our son was back yet… I realized that he missed playing with our son’s toys, so I let him go to his room and stay there for an hour or so, while his mom and I had a coffee on the porch…
willie_mctell over 1 year ago
When I was learning to ride a bike I coasted down hill into a telephone pole. I panicked and didn’t use the brake. Neither the bike nor I was seriously harmed. I still wonder how we avoided that.
lalapalooza Premium Member over 1 year ago
I think the bike story arc is amusing because i remember when i was learning to ride a bike it sometimes felt like it WAS out to get me lol
wilsoncazier over 1 year ago
Good book I got it for my son he loved it.
jd wigman over 1 year ago
I admit there were times as I was leaving for work and thinking I should never come back. Unfortunately I did come home, not because of the children they were the only reason I came home.
cheap_day_return over 1 year ago
Calvin has so much road rash he could earn the nickname “Hamburger Helper”.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
What if the camp won’t take him?