Surreal Away, Just Surreal Away

As far as I was aware surreal was a word that you would reserve for the most exceptional of circumstances. When the evidence before your eyes took on a hallucinatory, ethereal other worldly quality. Evidently I was wrong. Apparently it is a word that is available to be thrown about to characterize the most mundane and trivial of situations. “It was incredible, when I got home the kitchen was spotless, it was very surreal” “I opened my lunch box and found not one but two bags of crisps. It was surreal.” No it was not. It was mildly, microscopically noteworthy. Barely worth mentioning. Consider these on the other hand “I came home to find a colony of giant stag beetles in my living room watching TV and a herd of magenta coloured African elephants playing backgammon in the kitchen” or “I turned on the radio and heard the Ceann Comhairle announce his resignation”. Now that’s what I call surreal.