I'm reading a fantastic book called Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser, the founder of the Omega Institute. One chapter tells this fantastic story -
There is this man on a train, a crowded train and the man asks another if he would move the bag next to him. The man does nothing. It's a polish joke, or maybe a Russian joke... but an old joke and the old word for baggage was chimidunchik. The man asks again, and is once again ignored. More people enter the train. The man asks again and is ignored again and he gets so frustrated that he just starts yelling, "move your chimidunchik, move your chimidunchik..." He gets so angry that he picks up the bag and throws it out the window. He looks at the seatmate and says, "what are you going to do?" The man says, "nothing. it wasn't my chimidunchik."
Everyone has their own chimidunchik... and only we can carry it.
I love that word! I was just relying the story to someone and I could not remember the word, nor if it was Polish or Russian or Yiddish and sure enough I did a search on Amazon, found the chapter then searched the word "chimidunchik"
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