“There are shades of schadenfreude. My favorite shade is bright red, from a haughty spanking.”—Jarod Kintz. A loanword from the German language, “schadenfreude” describes the act of taking of pleasure in someone else’s pain. Not...
My dad dated a stupid girl, and one night at a movie, she outdid herself. As the credits roll, she asks my dad a question so dumb, he’s never forgotten it.