Editing 3147: Hiking

{{comic
| number    = 3147
| date      = September 26, 2025
| title     = Hiking
| image     = hiking_2x.png
| imagesize = 740x456px
| noexpand  = true
| titletext = Every downhill walk is a waterslide that might have been.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created by AN ON-DEMAND COMIC DELIVERY SERVICE. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
On-demand delivery is a type of service where you can order a product and it will be delivered to you within hours or even minutes. The most well-known of these are food delivery services like {{w|DoorDash}} and {{w|GrubHub}}, but there are also similar services for larger goods such as {{w|Amazon}}.

In the comic there's a vendor of {{w|waterslides}} that provides on-demand delivery using {{w|drones}} that fly the waterslide to a location you specify in the order, apparently complete with a water supply tank. While hiking through a terrain with lots of hills, [[Cueball]] and [[Megan]] order one whenever they're on their way up a hill, so that it will be delivered to the downhill side and they can have fun sliding down.

This is obviously impractical, but if drone technology improves, this is plausible, although kind of useless.

This comic may be a reference to how people tend to go downhill much faster than uphill when hiking, or find the downhills boring compared to challenge of going uphill.

==Transcript==
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:[This scene is in a mountain with many bumps. Everything is in one panel. The text is talking from left to right.]
:[Cueball and Megan are both facing right, facing a hill.]
:Cueball: Okay, we're nearing the next downhill segment. I'll put in the order.
:Cueball: ...confirming start and end points...
:Cueball: Submitted!
:[A waterslide with drones attached to it, flying down and to the right, with a wavy, dotted line heading down to the slide, showing the direction it is going. Megan and Cueball are standing together. Megan is pointing at the waterslide.]
:Megan: Look, here it comes!
:[The slide is on the downhill slope, with drones above it. Megan and Cueball are sliding down. Possibly riding 9n, or in, a long inflatable of some kind, whose front and rear ends are seen angling up out of the waterslide trough that also hides the two character's lower bodies.]
:Cueball and Megan: Wheeeee
:[The slide now is flying up and to the right with drones and another wavy dotted line, this time heading up-right]
:[Cueball and Megan are walking.]

:[Caption below the panel:]
:On-demand waterslide delivery has really improved the whole hiking experience.
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