Red and Rover by Brian Basset for September 09, 2021

If only it was/were that easy.

Less admission of guilt, also!

Good thing he didn’t say: “Allot”

Now he’ll be marked down for lack of detail instead.

Calvin of “Calvin and Hobbes” might have given a very imaginative account of his summer vacation and it would have been spelled correctly as he is a very good speller unlike Hobbes the tiger who spells his own name “hobs”.

On the other hand, Calvin’s dislike of homework might lead to him trying something like Red is trying here.

Red, you swam with the twins, you went on hikes, you AGED…you have LOTS to tell.

I was joking with my girls one time. I told them, “When writing a paper where you need a specific number of words…‘very’ is your friend!”

Tell them you donated blood this summer. It was a noble cause and good for the community

I caught on to this game about the 4th grade and started keeping a Summer Journal, half a page per day, carefully written and checked by my mother for spelling and grammar. I stapled the pages together and turned it in when the teacher assigned that “Busy Work.”

I used to have to make up a lot of stuff because if I wrote what I really did I’d be grounded.

Funny that I don’t remember ever having this assignment, yet it is a comic staple.

Now he’ll get marked down for incomplete sentences.

Red…you have so much to tell! Keep writing, and let Mom spell check it for you;)

“What I did on my summer vacation. Day 1, what I did on my summer vacation. I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out at the drug store. Day 2: I went downtown to look for a job. Then I hung out at the drug store. Day 3….”

Now that’s what Bugs Bunny would call Stragety.

Mine was easy when I lived in Queens, as my buddy Patrick and I would go to the NJ beaches (Patrick’s brother Gus would take us) and we went to the NY public library and the museums and other places in NYC. The older people on the subway always watched out for us. I so missed it all when we had to more.

Good thinking, Red.