cues

A six-panel SMBC comic. An oblivious, cheerful woman with orange hair tells a dark-haired woman, 'I should tell you I'm very bad with social cues.' The dark-haired woman replies sympathetically, 'Oh. That must be hard.' The orange-haired woman beams: 'No, no, it's wonderful! My world is filled with mysteries!' She then enthusiastically narrates an awkward observation she's made: 'Like how you got ketchup on your fingers and tried to wipe it off on your pants but accidentally hit your boobs en route and now you've been obscuring the ketchup stain with a napkin for like twenty minutes! Wow! What does it mean?!' The dark-haired woman freezes, mortified, clutching a napkin. The orange-haired woman cheerfully wonders aloud, 'Are you going to marry me? Or kill me? I have no clue!' As the embarrassed woman's face flushes red, she adds, 'Oh! Your face is turning red! Are you blending in with the ketchup?!' The joke is that her total inability to read social cues makes the other woman's mounting embarrassment a delightful mystery to her. Votey (aftercomic): a close-up of the grinning orange-haired woman asking, 'Wait, are we having sex right now?!'