2014-07-15
Original: 2014-07-15 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A man drives a car, dictating a text message. Phone screen text: "MESSAGE TO SALLY: RUNNING LATE. AM EN ROUTE."
Panel 2: The phone displays the transcribed message. Phone screen text: "MESSAGE TO SALLY: 'Running late. Am 'on route'."
Panel 3: The man, agitated and sweating, reacts to the autocorrect error.
Man: "DAMMIT! IT'S 'EN ROUTE' NOT 'ON ROUTE'. AAH! DO I MANUALLY FIX IT WHILE DRIVING? OR DO I JUST LET IT GO? DO I INCREASE MY RISK OF DEATH OR DO I LOOK UNAWARE THAT THE PHRASE IS OF FRENCH ORIGIN?"
Man: "AAH! AAH! WHAT DO I DO!?"
Panel 4: A newspaper headline.
Text: "NewzNet"
Headline: "ERRATIC DRIVER CAUSES DOZENS OF FATALITIES"
Subheading: "WAS SEEN TEXTING ON ROUTE"
Votey: An extreme close-up of the man's anguished, crying face, tears streaming down. Caption above: "WORRRTHHH IT..." (Worth it...)
Panel 2: The phone displays the transcribed message. Phone screen text: "MESSAGE TO SALLY: 'Running late. Am 'on route'."
Panel 3: The man, agitated and sweating, reacts to the autocorrect error.
Man: "DAMMIT! IT'S 'EN ROUTE' NOT 'ON ROUTE'. AAH! DO I MANUALLY FIX IT WHILE DRIVING? OR DO I JUST LET IT GO? DO I INCREASE MY RISK OF DEATH OR DO I LOOK UNAWARE THAT THE PHRASE IS OF FRENCH ORIGIN?"
Man: "AAH! AAH! WHAT DO I DO!?"
Panel 4: A newspaper headline.
Text: "NewzNet"
Headline: "ERRATIC DRIVER CAUSES DOZENS OF FATALITIES"
Subheading: "WAS SEEN TEXTING ON ROUTE"
Votey: An extreme close-up of the man's anguished, crying face, tears streaming down. Caption above: "WORRRTHHH IT..." (Worth it...)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a man driving dictates a text, phone shows "MESSAGE TO SALLY: RUNNING LATE. AM EN ROUTE." Panel 2: the phone has autocorrected it to read "AM 'ON ROUTE'" instead of "en route." Panel 3: the sweating, panicked driver agonizes aloud about whether to manually fix the typo while driving, risking death, or let it go and look unaware that the phrase is French in origin, crying "WHAT DO I DO!?" Panel 4: a newspaper headline reads "ERRATIC DRIVER CAUSES DOZENS OF FATALITIES" with subheading "WAS SEEN TEXTING ON ROUTE." Votey: an extreme close-up of the man's tear-streaked, anguished face captioned "WORRRTHHH IT..." (worth it) -- he died correcting the typo and considers it worthwhile.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.