Cursed To A Miserable Existence: This Guy Cannot Commit The Definition Of The Word ‘Perfunctory’ To Memory
He is forced to look up the word’s meaning each time that it comes up.
Absolutely mortifying. This guy cannot seem to remember the definition of the word ‘perfunctory’, despite having looked it up last month when he last heard it used in a sentence. In fact, the definition didn’t even look familiar when he looked it up today. It was as if he never knew the meaning of the word in the first place.
He also looked up the definition of perfunctory three months ago when he heard it in a movie, last February when his boss said it in a meeting, and seven other times throughout the past decade.
Oh God. It looks like he’s going to try to use ‘perfunctory’ in a sentence in an attempt to finally commit the word to memory. Let’s tune in.
“Hey sweetheart, do you want me to cook up some perfunctory for dinner tonight?”
Pitiful? Yes absolutely. Surprising? Not so much. This is, after all, the same guy who can’t spell ‘restaurant’ without leaning heavily on autocorrect.
I only remember the meaning of perfunctory because of its use in this quote I love from The X-Files: “Life is like a box of chocolates: a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for.”
“Ephemeral”