i have this friend who was notorious for his visceral and unconditional hatred of abba. like his facebook feed would periodically be like “i heard abba today and LOST IT” and we were all like ok chad calm down and maybe experience joy once or twice but whatever it was just this Thing, right, that chad fucking hated abba with every ounce of his bitter hipster soul
anyway chad is among my group of friends who are like starving dc artists who just want to Do Theater and they wait tables to make a living as they wait for their big break, which has historically never come, so he would just hang around and do like small-time professional theater in the dc area which is how he knows my theater nerd family and he was just this guy who hung around all the time
then one day. one glorious day. he posts on facebook like “… i have good news and i have bad news. the good news is, i got my Big Break. i will be a member of a national touring company of a Big Broadway Musical”
and the comments are like “yay congrats!!! what’s the bad news?”
chad, a defeated man: “IT’S MAMMA MIA.”
we all fucking lost our goddamn minds because chad was notorious for years, YEARS about how abba was overrated and overplayed or whatever and his big break is fuckign. fucking one of the dads in mamma mia.
the tour for mamma mia is now over and chad’s next big break was going on a cruise playing yet another of the dads from mamma mia so basically the universe prank’d my friend in a huge “be careful what you wish for” kinda way because he is now a Professional Actor but it’s for the goddamn abba musical
what i do is not up to you 