It always gets on my nerves when people exaggerate so much and say they saw the funniest movie of my life or they had the worst day of my life and so on.
But the other day, I really seriously experienced the most ironic moment of my life.
I was with my Love Interest, and it is no secret between us that I want to be with him and he has absolutely no romantic interest in me.
He says "Do you think unrequited desire is the essence of humor?"(Does anyone else think this is a weird thing to say anyway?)
I tensed up a little, even though it seemed unlikely that he was so blatantly insulting me and bringing up our awkward dynamics for us to discuss. I ventured to say that no....I did not think unrequited desire was the essence of humor.
He went on to elaborate a couple of different movie scenes in which a man wanted a woman and wasn't able to have her, and they were hilarious. I consented that maybe unrequited desire was funny, but not the, you know, "essence of humor" as he called it. I cited our mutual favorite comedian Mitch Hedberg as evidence, saying he never uses unrequited desire.
LI shot back with Hedberg's koala joke, in which he wishes he had koala bears to pet and feed leaves to, but they are so far away from him. This did not totally seem like unrequited desire to me but I was willing to let it go. Then LI brought up the joke where Mitch Hedberg says he wishes he could be in Little League. I told him that was absurd, as Little League could not want Mitch Hedberg back.
Then LI says "...I guess I dont really know what unrequited means".
My unrequited love doesn't know what unrequited means? I almost had to roll over and die, it was so. damn. ironic.
