ride-it

A two-panel comic. Panel 1: A smiling man in a suit and red tie chats up a smiling woman, saying, "Hey baby, wanna hop on my hedonic treadmill and ride until you're no longer deriving any pleasure?" She responds, "Ooooh..." Panel 2, labeled "Shortly...": the same couple now lie together in bed in the afterglow. He says, "It happened so fast," and she replies, "We are such fickle creatures" — the joke being that the hedonic treadmill (the tendency to quickly return to baseline happiness) caught up with them almost immediately. Votey (aftercomic): captioned "12 minutes later...", a loosely sketched grinning face declares, "Wait, changed my mind!"