My Amy (a clinical nurse) was seeing a 95-year old cancer patient in the clinic with a family member.
“Could you move my glass over there?” Mrs. 95 asked the other person.
“But you can’t even reach it over there, what’s the point of putting the glass there?” the family member replied.
“I am going to kick you in the SLIT ! Put it there!” Mrs. 95 replied like only an indignant ninety-year old can.
Later, Amy couldn’t stop laughing as she told me the story.
“So I guess ‘kick you in the slit’ was an expression back in the 1920s or ’30s then?” I wondered.
“I guess,” Amy chuckled.
Cancer isn’t funny. But the vivacity that people fighting cancer can have is a credit to humanity. Sometimes you have to laugh and cheer them on.
And try to introduce old expressions back into modern conversation.
