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Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, sheer guts plus arrogance.
It's Yiddish and no other word, and no other language, can do it justice.
A little old Jewish lady sold pretzels on a street corner for a dollar each. Every day, a young man would leave his office building at lunchtime and, as he passed the pretzel stand, he would leave her $1.00 - but never take a pretzel.
This offering 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 dollar as usual, the pretzel lady spoke to him for the first time in over 3 years.
Without blinking an eye, she said, "They're $1.25 now."
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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