Bad Timing
Bad Timing
[Cueball and Megan, flying in a hot air balloon that takes up most of the panel.] Cueball: I like you. I'm just not feeling the relationship.
[The hot air balloon is now further away, and a rough sketch of the ground below is shown.] Cueball: I'm sorry.
[Only the basket of the hot air balloon is shown, with the rest being cut off by the edge of the panel.] Cueball: It's just bad timing. Me with my classes, you with your work, the spiders... Megan: The what?
[Red Spiders crowd onto the balloon, causing it to begin to fall. Cueball and Megan look panicked.]

Cueball breaks up with Megan in the middle of a hot air balloon ride. Then the red spiders attack .
The red spiders are among the earliest xkcd characters , first appearing in 8: Red spiders .
As the protip in the title text states, a break-up conversation while you are stranded in an inaccessible location is very poor manners. Also, the suggestion may be interpreted that breaking up in a hot air balloon is a very dangerous way to do it; the reaction may result in one or both parties falling out of the basket, or at least make the remainder of the flight very awkward.
This was the first comic to give a protip in the title text, but several have followed, as can be seen in the protip category .
The full series of Red Spiders comics:
[Cueball and Megan, flying in a hot air balloon that takes up most of the panel.] Cueball: I like you. I'm just not feeling the relationship.
[The hot air balloon is now further away, and a rough sketch of the ground below is shown.] Cueball: I'm sorry.
[Only the basket of the hot air balloon is shown, with the rest being cut off by the edge of the panel.] Cueball: It's just bad timing. Me with my classes, you with your work, the spiders... Megan: The what?
[Red Spiders crowd onto the balloon, causing it to begin to fall. Cueball and Megan look panicked.]
