a-confession
Original: a-confession on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: I have a confession.
Panel 2:
Woman: All these years, every time we've high-fived, I carefully kept my thumb folded.
(A man stands listening.)
Panel 3:
Woman: Thus, every time you-- ow! gave me five-- ow! I only owed you back four.
(Small label near the man: "ow")
Panel 4:
Woman: Your cumulative deficit is now 100,000 fingers, which is 12,000 double high-fives.
Panel 5:
Woman: It is as if I requested a 'high-five down low' and held out my hands only to remove them prior to your compliance with my request ten thousand times.
(Man, throwing his head back in anguish): NOOOOO!
Panel 6:
Man (in silhouette): I trusted you.
Woman (in silhouette): Also, every time I gave you a thumbs up, it was 17/16 radians off center.
Votey:
Text: 'meh.'
A large hand giving a thumbs up is shown, but the thumb is bent over and tucked across the curled fingers rather than pointing up.
Woman: I have a confession.
Panel 2:
Woman: All these years, every time we've high-fived, I carefully kept my thumb folded.
(A man stands listening.)
Panel 3:
Woman: Thus, every time you-- ow! gave me five-- ow! I only owed you back four.
(Small label near the man: "ow")
Panel 4:
Woman: Your cumulative deficit is now 100,000 fingers, which is 12,000 double high-fives.
Panel 5:
Woman: It is as if I requested a 'high-five down low' and held out my hands only to remove them prior to your compliance with my request ten thousand times.
(Man, throwing his head back in anguish): NOOOOO!
Panel 6:
Man (in silhouette): I trusted you.
Woman (in silhouette): Also, every time I gave you a thumbs up, it was 17/16 radians off center.
Votey:
Text: 'meh.'
A large hand giving a thumbs up is shown, but the thumb is bent over and tucked across the curled fingers rather than pointing up.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A woman tells a man she has a confession: for all the years they've high-fived, she secretly kept her thumb folded, so each time he gave her five she only owed him back four. She declares his cumulative deficit is now 100,000 fingers, equal to 12,000 double high-fives, and compares the betrayal to repeatedly offering a 'high-five down low' and yanking her hands away before he could slap them. The man throws his head back screaming 'NOOOOO!' In the final panel, both shown in silhouette, the man says 'I trusted you,' and she adds that every thumbs up she ever gave him was 17/16 radians off center. Votey: a large hand making a thumbs-up gesture, except the thumb is bent and tucked across the fingers instead of sticking up, captioned 'meh.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.