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What does "It is what it is" mean to you?
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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 555285"><p>More years than I care to remember, I rented the down floor apartment from a family that lived upstairs, the wife owned the two story house. Every month, I would pay her the rent and she would pay me a rant. The rant was generally how the world was going to hell in a handbasket and specifically any incidents that she was involved in the last week.</p><p> As I listened to her rants, I realized that she was not the innocent victim in these "hell in handbaskets" stories but probably a willing contributer to the world going to hell. So after I listened for five minutes, I said to her "It is what it is". She took the statement from me as if I sympathized with her struggles and validated them. I said the line , intending it to be taken that way but what I was truthfully saying is that "it is" probably something else than "what" she thought " it is."</p><p></p><p>After awhile, I started to pay her the rent in the morning, and just said "leave my receipt in the mailbox, I gotta get going, I'm running late."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 555285"] More years than I care to remember, I rented the down floor apartment from a family that lived upstairs, the wife owned the two story house. Every month, I would pay her the rent and she would pay me a rant. The rant was generally how the world was going to hell in a handbasket and specifically any incidents that she was involved in the last week. As I listened to her rants, I realized that she was not the innocent victim in these "hell in handbaskets" stories but probably a willing contributer to the world going to hell. So after I listened for five minutes, I said to her "It is what it is". She took the statement from me as if I sympathized with her struggles and validated them. I said the line , intending it to be taken that way but what I was truthfully saying is that "it is" probably something else than "what" she thought " it is." After awhile, I started to pay her the rent in the morning, and just said "leave my receipt in the mailbox, I gotta get going, I'm running late." [/QUOTE]
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