It hasn’t been that long. Especially by the standards of the last year, when we’ve had ridiculously long stories like Peppermint Patty going to obedience school or Linus stranded on Truffles’s roof.
This strip has really stood out to me ever since I first read it. It’s the only time I can recall getting inside Calvin’s dad’s head and seeing him as a sympathetic human being. The rest of the time he’s either angry, snarky (though that’s pretty funny sometimes) or just plain weird.
If he feels that way it’s because he’s been able to take a stable, secure home life for granted. If that ever changes he’ll be begging on his knees to have it back.
I once met a woman in her early 20s who found it difficult to answer the question “Did you get a bachelor’s?” after she mentioned that she’d graduated. She was substitute teaching full time, so probably not bound for the family business, either.
I think I would have cultivated his acquaintance in a very casual, at-arm’s-length sort of way in my undergrad days. Weeder I would have avoided like the plague.
So what, she hit the fence so hard that Charlie Brown and Linus were knocked over? If so, then isn’t that out?