It Should Have Happened to Me

I don’t care if something good happened to you. It should have happened to me instead

Ryan Gosling stands in a dark, purple-lit setting wearing a leather jacket, with bright headlights behind him. The joke is jealous self-centeredness: instead of being happy for someone else’s success, the speaker thinks every good thing should have happened to him. It is used as a sarcastic reaction to someone sharing good news or achievements.

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