T-Rex: Wait a second.
T-Rex: WAIT JUST A SECOND!

T-Rex: A tradition is just something you do more than once!

T-Rex: So if I blow off my friends, I'm just celebrating the traditional act of my people, where we love making plans but then hate following through on them!
Dromiceiomimus: Seems deeply irritating, T-Rex!
T-Rex: THAT'S part of the tradition too!

Utahraptor: Wait, what does turning your foibles into traditions get you?
T-Rex: CULTURE!

T-Rex: I'm not an annoying friend who hates going to parties (but once he's there hates leaving them, haha.) I'm part of a proud CULTURE of people who do that!
Utahraptor: Huh.

Off panel: T-Rex, do you enjoy hearing someone say that your culture is bad and stupid?
T-Rex: Utahraptor!!
T-Rex: NOBODY HAS EVER SAID YES TO THAT