It's spelled "Schadenfreude"

[khavrinen]

Though technically what I feel is not really "joy at the misfortune of others", but more "joy at the indirect results of the misfortune of others".

Whether or not you would apply the schadenfreude label to the latter emotion, last night I was certainly feeling it to the utmost -- all because of a commercial I happened to see on TV.  It seems that

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[allyra]

Hahahaha, that place sounds like the equivalent of Haynes here. My sister and I have started to mock them: whenever we make weekend plans, one or the other of us will say, "But wait - there's a sale at Haynes!" The other will reply, "Oh my god, we can't miss THAT!!"

What I want to know is how everything can always be on sale AND no one ever has to pay anything for two (or three) years.

I would do a jig of joy if they ever went out of business.