Indirect Boast; Please help!!!!?

Question

Based on the following example in Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, my teacher has asked us to write an indirect boast.

"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them -- by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.''

According to my teacher: "The above indirect boast has the character ridiculing himself in order to indirectly praise himself. An indirect boast, in some ways, is like 'irony in action'."

Please help; I have no idea how to write one of these. I would really love an example of one also, to get me started.

Thanks so much.

Answer 1

One might be:

My fashion is so chic that I am an oddity in my tiny, old-fashioned town.

I get horrible grades in this class, because the work is so easy that I don't bother to do it.

Answer 2

"My skill at driving winding mountain roads is so great that I frequently get tickets for exceeding the speed limit."