A Vexing Definition
Boyfriend/Girlfriend, home, Language & Words, Silly, USA | Romantic | July 13, 2018
(My boyfriend and I are sitting at home eating our personal pints of ice cream. I’m about to take the last bite before putting it away for the night, so I dig out a chunk of brownie before handing him the pint to put in the freezer.)
Boyfriend: “You know, you always take such big spoonfuls of ice cream. It’s quite… vexing.”
(I stare at him in confusion, as he’s usually extremely laid back.)
Me: “My ice cream eating angers you?”
Boyfriend: “What? No!”
Me: “That’s what vexing means!”
Boyfriend: “Well, I didn’t know what vexing meant!”
Me: “Then why did you use it?!”
(He just throws up his hands and walks away. A few minutes later…)
Boyfriend: “So… vixen and vexing have nothing to do with each other?”
(The best part of this is that he’s a published author
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