My neighbor, B, and I helped my neighbor, C, figure out what what was wrong with her sliding glass door. For years it hasn’t rolled smoothly. The three of us thought it would take quite a long time to figure out the problem and then figure out a solution.
In short - it seems simple to fix. The wheels at the bottom of the door are wonky. C will spend ~$50 bucks buying replacements and after she gets the parts and If things go smoothly - me and B can fix her door in ~30 minutes.
B said “I can’t believe how simple the problem is and how easy it should be to fix.” I agreed. I can’t quite explain why - but we were almost disappointed that this big project wasn’t big at all.
failure especially to meet expectations
That’s sort of in the right direction but I’ve never read a sentence or heard somebody (a person in real life or a fictional character) say something like this…
“I thought fixing it was going to take 5 hours. Much to my chagrin it took 30 minutes.”
The listener would be confused and probably say “I don’t get it. You wanted it to take longer?”
Chagrin is used like this…
“I’m still working on my guitar. I thought fixing the bad tuner would take me 5 minutes at most. But much to my chagrin I’ve spent 30 minutes on it and it’s still not working right.”
I mean, isn’t that just using chagrin ironically? I guess no, not exactly, but it’s like inverse, I hope you get what I mean because my brain is turning off lmao
