SHE WAS GIVING YOU THE LOOK

This meme uses a classic DC comic panel of Superman straining to stop a speeding train that is about to hit an oblivious small boy holding a ball on the tracks. Three text overlays map relatable real-life social context to the panel: the speeding train is labeled as the user's parents aggressively pressuring them to ask a waitress for her phone number, Superman holding back the train is labeled as the user ignoring their parents and continuing to eat their meal, and the unaware small boy is labeled as the waitress who is only being polite as part of her job with no romantic interest. The joke plays on the common experience of family members overinterpreting casual friendliness from service workers as romantic interest, and the awkwardness of being pushed to make an unwanted advance.

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My parents desperately telling me to ask for her number

Me just eating my food and rebuffing them

A cute waitress just being nice doing her job

Overview

This meme uses a classic DC comic panel of Superman straining to stop a speeding train that is about to hit an oblivious small boy holding a ball on the tracks. Three text overlays map relatable real-life social context to the panel: the speeding train is labeled as the user's parents aggressively pressuring them to ask a waitress for her phone number, Superman holding back the train is labeled as the user ignoring their parents and continuing to eat their meal, and the unaware small boy is labeled as the waitress who is only being polite as part of her job with no romantic interest. The joke plays on the common experience of family members overinterpreting casual friendliness from service workers as romantic interest, and the awkwardness of being pushed to make an unwanted advance.

Origin notes

This is an edited exploitable meme sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It uses a widely shared classic Superman stopping a train comic panel as its base asset, and was edited using the Mematic mobile meme editing tool. The base Superman train stopping panel is a popular existing meme template used to represent a person resisting a large, overwhelming force to protect a third party that is unaware of the situation.