If he didn’t recognize the exact motion as you intended it to be, he would have seen it as you raising your fists in self-defense. Which, though ineffective against a vehicle, is still an understandable reflex when threatened by a human-induced action.
*fist, singular. Also, I am inferring the likelihood of that mistake from the angle as drawn in the comic; I know the gesture but have never seen it performed, so I’m not familiar with what angle that is meant to be viewed from to be interpreted as such.
Once my older sister stopped to close to a crosswalk, so an old man hit the roof of our car with an umbrella so hard the roof dented. We had that dent the whole time we had the car.
If he didn’t recognize the exact motion as you intended it to be, he would have seen it as you raising your fists in self-defense. Which, though ineffective against a vehicle, is still an understandable reflex when threatened by a human-induced action.
*fist, singular. Also, I am inferring the likelihood of that mistake from the angle as drawn in the comic; I know the gesture but have never seen it performed, so I’m not familiar with what angle that is meant to be viewed from to be interpreted as such.
DTIBA: Watch SpaceBalls some time. 🙂
I love this version:
“In Bulgaria the bent hand is sometimes used to form a facepalm when performing this gesture, expressing strong disappointment or mocking a failure.”
Once my older sister stopped to close to a crosswalk, so an old man hit the roof of our car with an umbrella so hard the roof dented. We had that dent the whole time we had the car.
On the bright side, it probably didn’t do the umbrella any good either.
Since you’re pantomiming abruptly fisting him up to your elbow, I wouldn’t exactly call it a foppish gesture.
You have no idea what the bras d’honneur is, do you?
Not to be THAT guy (but I’m totally going to be that guy)…In the 3rd panel is “prissy” the word you were aiming for instead of (sic) “pissy”?