Schadenfreude
After reading this guy’s list describing arguments he and his girlfriend have gotten into, I suddenly feel good about every relationship I’ve ever been in. An example:
I eat two-fingered Kit-Kats like I’d eat any other chocolate bars of that size, i.e., without feeling the need to snap them into two individual fingers first. Margret accused me of doing this, ‘deliberately to annoy her’.
Which way - the distances were identical - to drive round a circular bypass (this resulted in her kicking me in the head from the back seat as I drove along).
I feel a bit guilty about the schadenfreude involved in my feelings, not to mention the guilt from putting this post in the ‘humor’ category. But hey, he did post it publicly after all.
Update: So I found out that this list has been around for some time. As a result of the list’s popularity, the author Mil Millington landed a job writing a column for the Guardian newspaper and has since also written two novels:
