Editing 1183: Rose Petals

{{comic
| number    = 1183
| date      = March 8, 2013
| title     = Rose Petals
| image     = rose petals.png
| titletext = Joke's on you--the Roomba and I had a LOVELY evening.
}}

==Explanation==
This comic strip is playing with romantic movies and gestures used in them. In such movies, one of often used romantic gestures is spreading rose petals in the house or apartment, making a way towards the bedroom in which a romantic interest/lover is waiting surrounded by roses for the love-making session. The joke is that petals don't lead to the bedroom and [[Cueball]]'s lover but out onto the street. It appears that someone has set up a box of rose petals and an electric fan atop a {{w|Roomba}} autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner as a method of automatically creating such a trail. The title text suggests that dispite the other party's intentions of setting this up as a joke to trick Cueball, Cueball ended up having a lovely time with the Roomba.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball enters a living room, to see a line of rose petals on the floor.]
:[Cueball follows the line of rose petals.]
:[Cueball observes that the line of rose petals leads out the front door, onto the street, and along the sidewalk.]
:''WHIRRRRRR''
:[The panel shows a table fan behind what appears to be an inverted mailbox filled with rose petals with its back removed. Both are sitting on a Roomba which is motoring down the sidewalk. The fan is on, and is blowing the rose petals out the slit in the front of the mailbox.]
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