rule number 4

My lovely friend Abi has a very smart set of rules to live by. If you do, you're pretty good at life.

Rule number 4 is "Suck it up."

This morning while travel training, I watched two women accidently bump into each other. One was coming up the stairs out of the train station and the other was going down. I was directly behind the woman walking up.

The woman going down was totally on a mission and not paying attention to anything around her. Now I get that, sometimes we need to filter all the stimulation this city gives us and go through our routine without any thought. Totally get it. She had a large iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts and at the moment of impact the coffee went down.

The woman in front of me apologized profusely. And yet, I have never seen a human being give such a nasty look to someone else.

Okay, I get it, that's annoying. But did it get on her? No. Was it an accident? Yes. Is her life impacted in any important way by this incident? Probably not.

Go get a new coffee.

It's life. Suck it up.