I Regret to Inform You That You Will Probably Survive
I noted recently that 2016 was a year considered so awful, politically, that it had a lot of people joking that they wished for death. Some took that idea farther than others.
As 2017 gets under way, I regret to inform you that you will probably survive.
That's a line I started using when my kids got overly dramatic about something that didn't go their way: “I regret to inform you that you will probably survive.” When I first said it, I wondered for a moment whether I had just dropped a little too much sarcasm on a nine-year-old, but he just stopped for moment, thinking it through, and started laughing. Since then, it has become kind of a family joke. When things go wrong, we say, “I regret to inform you that you will probably survive.”
One of the things we will survive is the Trump administration. Probably.
The rest of this article is available by e-mail only to paying subscribers.