Joined: Jan 14, 2006 Posts: 101 Location: Germersheim, Germany
Chutzpah Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:30 pm
Sent in by Bill Robbins
Chutzpah is a word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance; its Yiddish and, as Leo Rosten writes, no other word, and no other language, can do it justice . This example is better than 1,000 words . .
THE ESSENCE OF CHUTZPAH . . .
A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner for 25 cents each . .
Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time, and as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her a quarter, but never take a pretzel . This went on for more than 3 years . The two of them never spoke . .
One day, as the young man passed the old lady's stand and left his quarter as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him....
Without blinking an eye she said: "They're 35 cents now . "
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