What I used to know as a "wish list" has been co-opted by the hip generation and is now known as a "bucket list". Andy Newman in Sunday's NYT has written about the "reverse" bucket list in which writers declare their least desirable wish.
-Being stuck in August rush hour traffic behind a garbage truck.
-Sitting on a crosstown bus watching pedestrians make better time.
-Asking Alec Baldwin for an autograph.
-Get kicked in the face by a subway performer.
-Sit next to someone doing personal grooming.
-Stuck in an elevator with Donald Trump.
Please sympathize with the citizens of Manhattan - I do as I rode their subway for four years.
Mentioning buckets reminds me of the old vaudeville joke:
A - I heard your grandma was ill...did she kick the bucket?
B - No, but she did turn a little pale.
Have a nice weekend........full moon Sunday August 10th.
tjs
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/nyregion/in-new-york-city-bucket-lists-run-in-reverse.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C{%221%22%3A%22RI%3A8%22}
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