Schadenfreude of couples

schadenfreude: the malicious enjoyment of another's pain

Since running into the couple in the aforementioned blog, my hubby and I have been having fun going around the house saying to one another, "Shut up! Stop touching me!" only, we can't say it with a straight face. I realized that we tend to do this a lot. Mock other couple's pain I mean. Years ago at the San Diego Wild Animal park we stood in the monorail line (there's another story about the monorail, but I'll save it for a slow blogging time) behind a young couple who continually called one another "Dumb Ass". I don't know which was worse, the fact that their little 3 year old daughter was with them, or their friend, who looked like he was really sorry that he'd agreed to come along. Whee! A family trip to see the animals!
So, yeah, from then on we've called one another dumb ass in honor of that couple.

We also get a lot of fodder from our whisky-tango neighbor. Our walls are pretty thin, so if they are outside our bedroom or bathroom, we can overhear everything they say. One fight that sticks with us is the following:

Her: "You always ...(something something, can't hear it)"
Him: NO
Her: YES
Him: NOOOOO
Her: YEEEES
Him: NOOOOOO!
Her: YEEEEEEEES!

It was great. So, yeah, you know Alan and I are all over that one. Only it's usually something ridiculous like:

Me: "No I love you more."
Alan: NO
Me: YES
etc. you get the idea.

Yes, it is nice to be perfect so that we can mock others, thank you very much. And I'm sure somewhere, some couple overheard our mockery and thought we were sincere, so they are continuing the mocking cycle. Gotta share the "love".