Lunupis

A Different Street - Satchel Pooch writes about life and parenting and how those two collide.

Sometimes we all need a reminder, something to straighten out our perspective on life. These reminders aren’t always pleasant. Satchel Pooch writes about how her Finnish grandmother used to dole out “Lunupis,” which were gentle thumps on your head with a finger. It’s been years since she got one from her grandmother, but recently she says that God gave her a Lunupi of a different kind.

My spouse’s grandmother, of Finnish extraction, says that “lunupi” (sp?) is a Finnish word for when you give someone’s (probably a kid’s) head a hard flick with your finger. My father used to do this occasionally (though he was not Finnish) — and he had big wide fingers so it really stung!

Anyway, yesterday morning I was grocery shopping, and feeling very put out because though I waited in the checkout line a long time, someone else pushed to the front of the line when a new checker came. I went into snit mode, and was barely civil to the checker when I finally got there…Click here to read more.