Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for January 22, 2025

This could be a fatal standoff!!!

Is this what happens when you fall in love?

Reminds me of the pair of overly polite gophers from my childhood cartoons. No, after you. Oh no, I insist, after you.Ad infinitum.

Shy Diving!

A whole new definition to Lover’s Leap.

This cartoon is correctly named. There will be speed then bump.

These are their final opening statements.

SPLAT.

Together…forever

Their first and last argument.

I don’t think this is how you fall in love.

It’s all cutesy till someone get street-pizzaed.

You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute if you want to skydive twice.

Thus realizing too late that “falling” in love can prove fatal.

this will not end well

Well at least thems will goes from this world holding hands together.

This is the kind of thing that can end a relationship!

Someone make a decision! You’re fixing to go splat!

Basically equivalent to, “You say goodbye first. No, you say goodbye first.”

…plop…

Talk about taking the plunge!

They never should have closed their eyes but without eye protection I suppose keeping their eyes closed is ‘normal’.

( I realize this was originally a parachute joke.)

It’s not the fall that’s dangerous. It’s that quick stop at the bottom.

when we first dated my wife decided to do that telephone thing “you hang up first” that all her friends were doing. So I called her and we had our conversation and she said her line of course expecting me to say “No you hang up first”—-however me being me—— I just said “okay” and hung up.

Where are the sport chutes? Those shown are archaic…but they do work.

Falling in love is dangerous.

Two things fall out of the sky…

Anyone one can Sky dive without a parachute, but only once.

RIP cord

Chutes and laters.

They’re about to test “’Til death do us part.”

Thus proving that love is not only blind, but also stupid.

Splat !!! ;-)

point

famous last words

Competitive splatting.

Duck season and rabbit season.

OH….Chute.

It does not matter which pulls the rip cord first. They first have to let go of each others hands, then they can open together.

Soon, it won’t matter who goes first

Another (final) “happily ever after” trip.

They wear helmets. They’re safe.

Next they’re going to argue over who’s going to hit the ground first.

His’n’Hers Darwin Awards might seem romantic to some…not to me. I always thought Romeo and Juliet were more stupid than romantic, with poor communication skills…

They’ll be a big hit and make a lasting impression.

It’s so high school. But if they don’t hurry up, they’ll be back at ground school. The hard way.

Just like Christmas morning.

Ah…natural selection kicks in again. Never did understand that kind of idiocy anyway.