I saw this trend floating around during the 2020 Covid creative cooking period, and I remembered it now because I thought it would be a fun thing to fry over Chanukah.
Mother (in a singsong voice): Do you want to push the button on the door on the way out of the office?
Daughter (in an overeager voice): Sure!
Mother (same voice): We’re going to have a button-pushing party!
Daughter: Yeah!
Mother: Come on, you party animal!
I couldn’t exaggerate this exchange if I tried. I certainly didn’t need to add any embellishments when I told it over, and my kids asked me to say it over too many times. But then one of my kids said, so obviously and so insightfully, “Ma, anything can be turned into a party.”
I’d say it slightly differently: You can turn anything into a good time.
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