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Phrase: Bear with
We’ll begin with a funny little poem to start the day off right.
"Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace. Grace is a little girl. Who would not wash her face." ― Dick King-Smith, Lady Daisy
Patience is one of the virtues that is greatly lacking in today’s fast-paced society.
Try saying bear with me for a moment and watch the other person’s eyes roll.
No matter what it is, people think bigger, better, faster, more, GIVE IT TO ME NOW!
Yes, patience is a virtue, and a virtue is a great moral quality for a person to have, but what does it mean when someone says, “Bear with me?”
Well, to bear with someone means to be patient or tolerant of them.
Usually, when someone says, bear with me, they have a long story to tell or an explanation for something that will take a while.
As I previously stated, the problem is that people have no time these days and even less patience.
Unless, of course, they are a busy doctor.
In that case, they have no time but lots of patients.
Ha, ha! How’s that for a play on words?
Anyways, my father was one of those people you had to bear with.
Some may say it was more like withstanding, but I’ll go with, bear with, for the purposes of this post today.
Once my father had a few drinks in him, he became talkative.
Usually, he would never say a word, just grunt when he wanted something.
But after a few beers, he could talk the arse off a kettle, as my grandmother would say.
If you have ever dealt with an intoxicated person, you know that patience and tolerance are the keys to the game when you yourself have not been drinking.
You have to bear with them until, well, you don’t.
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