I don’t have a bucket list. I never even knew what one was till that movie (which I never saw) came out titled Bucket List. Like anybody, there are things I’d like to try or accomplish “someday,” but to make an actual list, so I can cross them off prior to kicking the bucket, is a practice in which I have never indulged.
I thought about this today when it occurred to me that I have never said to anybody, “Suck it up, Twinkle Toes.”
I’m not even sure I’ve even told anybody to suck it up, even not calling them Twinkle Toes. I feel it’s more of a thing to say about somebody as in, “Well, they can just suck it up.” Implication being, of course, that I am already sucking it up, but let us not probe too deeply into the veracity of that insinuation.
There was a time in my theatrical past when I was known within a certain circle for saying, “You’re an actor — deal with it!”
I think “Deal with it!” is a much better exhortation than “Suck it up!” “Suck it up!” (I think it needs the exclamation point each time) implies that there is nothing you can do about it, so quit complaining (as if anybody ever does that!). “Deal with it!” is more optimistic. I know that sometimes dealing with something comes down to just living with it, but the actual words “deal with it” sound more proactive, as well as a good deal friendlier, depending on your tone of voice.
I guess this means that I am not in a very friendly mood this morning, as I scan the floor, searching for an opportunity to say, “Suck it up, Twinkle Toes!”
I had written that much this morning (except for the first paragraph; I added that just now when I typed it in) (in the interests of full disclosure) and thought that it had been more amusing in my head than it seemed on paper. Break was over anyways. A co-worker had been on the phone with his wife, suggesting to her that he take a half day. She had told him not to do it, because he would no doubt want to take half days during the summer.
“So I have to stay,” he said in a resigned tone of voice.
And you know what I replied.
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