57: Wait For Me
explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
| Wait For Me |
 Title text: Opening dialogue by Scott |
Explanation
In this comic, Megan is returning after a short absence of under two minutes. Cueball's reaction is as if she had been gone for years, and had formed a relationship with someone else while waiting.
His pause before admitting to the affair, as well as the claim of having a son by the affair Megan's age suggest that he is joking. It is impossible for Cueball to have a son Megan's age from an affair while he is notionally seeing Megan (unless he had the relationship with Megan, and the affair, 9 months before she was born. Certainly not within the 90 seconds Megan claims to have been gone.
Transcript
- [A man and a woman stand facing one another]
- Woman: Why didn't you wait for me?
- Man: I thought you were gone forever!
- Woman: I said I'd be back in a minute!
- Man: The . . . the seconds went fast at first, but then they started to drag on. She was there for me.
- Woman: You had an affair in the 90 seconds I was gone?!
- Man: . . . yes.
- Man: And we had a son.
- Man: He'd be about your age now.
add a comment!Discussion
This could also be a reference to relativity, but I may be overthinking it. 130.160.145.185 06:24, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm going with the more fantastical route. Cueball could have gone to Narnia in the ninety seconds she was gone. He could have had an affair and a child that is her age within that time. 72.193.184.110 10:51, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
