Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 12, 2024

Typical Calvin!

Calvin, you should be able to knock that out in ten minutes or so…..

Hobbes could have helped with this if Calvin asked earlier.

“Finished?” Clearly you didn’t even start, Calvin!

No coyote?? No Acme?? An “F”, for sure!

Have kids, they said. You’ll enjoy it, they said.

(Face-palms)

An all-too common thing with kids…

Cramming for a homework assignment? Now that’s something that builds character.

I blame the parents.

He had almost started thinking about it.

Just orders Acme Diaorama kit. In addition to roadrunner it come with coyote too.

Just remember to have a canyon for the coyote to be at the bottom off.

“Never procrastinate today, when you can procrastinate tomorrow.”

Desert’s are easy, where’s the litter box?

Calvin at his finest.

If you make it a desert on Arrakis, you can include a sandworm.

And build a wiley coyote

What? No Coyote and falling Acme™ anvil?

I never leave things to the last minute! I always do them the night before…

Cue all glass and windows in neighborhood breaking due to mom yelling profanities at the top of her lungs!

WHAT THE F#*$@ IS WRONG WITH YOU?! WHY DO ALWAYS WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE?! BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, NAG, NAG, NAG! THIS IS ALL BECAUSE YOU WASTE YOUR TIME WATCHING CARTOONS AND READING COMIC BOOKS!

Cal and Zits seem to run tandem some days. Just different generations.

Well Calvin is getting better. Usually an assignment like this would have been due last week.

…..that’s a stretch!!!!

One Sunday evening I asked my parents if they could help me with a similar type of project. Dad asked, “When is it due?” I answered, “Tomorrow.” He asked, “When did you find out about it?” I told him, which was a couple of weeks previous. He said, “You got yourself into this situation, you get yourself out.” I managed to squeak out a B with very little sleep, and I don’t procrastinate as much anymore…hardly at all!

Mom may finish him.

That would have been my timeline, but I wouldn’t have told my mom, and would have finished it on the bus.

Typical kid, waiting until the last minute.

Won’t be long, then suddenly the project was due two weeks ago.

My kids used to do something similar to me. I’d get stuck making their science project or have to urgently sign their permission slips that had to be in that day. What do these kids learn in school, procrastination? They couldn’t have learned it from me. I’m a closet procrastinator. I figure I can admit tomorrow if I ever decide to come out of the closet. ;-p

From experience, I can say this is exactly true

Never do today what can be procrastinated until it’s due.

Took me until 78 years old to find out I was Calvin.

First graders studying ecosystems? Tell me another one.

At least he told the truth.

What would grade school projects be without shoeboxes?

I’d be worried about the “stuff” he needs.

Add a coyote

As Calvin once said, “Here comes the hurricane…”

I see a big future for Calvin in party politics ! ;-)

Tell the kid no more at this point. It’s the only way he’ll learn.

Those kinds of homework I get out of the way first, much more fun than Math.

These days the schools have a website that shows your kids assignments, test days and grades.

If your going to do a cactus and a roadrunner, then you got to do a coyote.

Where is Amazon when you need most!

Throwi,ng mom under the bus. "It’s my moms fault, she didn’t make me do it

“I wasn’t quite finished” means “I haven’t started yet.” Sort of like having “a concept of a plan.”

Reminds me of my child. When she was about eleven or twelve did the same thing to me about a report on Oklahoma. We had to stay up late and do the whole thing in one night!

I was actually like this too when it came to my school assignments. I remember one assignment where we had to interview a family member about their life, and write a paper and present a visual to the class. I put it off until the day it was due, and quickly asked my grandfather questions when he was driving me to school.