Last week, BSM was having a hard night. He had missed computer time due to participating in other enjoyable activities (mainly a long phone call with a friend), then he missed more bedtime book then he had bargained for (because he asked for a walk with Husbinator to calm down about missing computer).
Poor BSM was genuinely crushed at being denied his routine. Husbinator and I sympathized, and we explained that sometimes you just have to pick a single thing from multiple nice things, but BSM was still hurt.
As a last-ditch effort, I decided to share some Ancient Wisdom of His People. I asked BSM to prepare himself to learn something important. He took a deep breath. I looked at him soberly and declaimed, slowly and clearly: "One Tuchus. Can't dance. At two weddings."
BSM blinked and asked me to repeat that. I did. BSM laughed, and lo, he took heart.
I learned that Life Lessons are expressed as aphorisms for a reason. Also, as I already knew, tushy jokes are funny.
Later, since Husbinator and I are learning Yiddish, we decided to try to translate that expression back into Yiddish. When we went online to check our work, I learned that technically, the expression is, "You can't dance at two weddings with one tuchus."
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