#245: Floor Tiles explain

[Two characters walk on a floor tiled in black and white.]

Friend: Why are you walking funny?

[Second panel consists of Cueball’s thought cloud in which he points to an easel mounted diagram of the floor tile pattern.]

Cueball, thinking: Well, my instinct is to step only on black tiles, but they’re too far apart. So I’m letting myself walk on the tiles directly in line with the black ones, but that means that when we walk diagonally, I have to step in a pattern where…

[Returns to situation in first panel.]

Cueball: I’m not walking funny.