Pass the Buck

Meaning – to pass responsibility on to someone else.

Origin – buck is an article used in a game of poker, and that's the buck that's passed. This was often a knife, and knives often had handles made of buck's horn - hence the marker becoming known as a buck. When the dealer's turn was done he 'passed the buck'.
Silver dollars were later used as markers and this is probably the origin of the use of buck as a slang term for dollar.

While Harry S. Truman may have made the phrase 'the buck stops here' famous I think he may be the last person on the planet to practice it.

Case in point, when you have been back from vacation for three months you should no longer say things like “things kind of fell apart while I was gone” as the excuse for current issues. It’s been three months, if your absence made the place fall apart shouldn’t you have fixed any problems in the three months since your return? The answer is yes.

So stop blaming everyone else! You know who you are. The truth is, the problems that are coming up now were problems you had then. The only difference is that the person you used to blame quit because she was sick of you taking credit for her accomplishments and blaming her for your mistakes.

Karma is catching up to you and it’s pissed!

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On a completely unrelated note, while waiting for the blogger system to come back online yesterday so I could post entry I decide to run to the cafeteria for a sandwich.

I am waiting in the sandwich line in the cafeteria for my glorious chicken-hummus-feta on pita sandwich to finish grilling when the grown man next to me actually asks the woman making his tuna fish sandwich, “Can you cut that into fourths?”

To which she replies, “Of course. It’s just like being back with my little kids in the kitchen.” The woman is old enough to be this man’s mother.

At this point I steal a glance at the man next to me who is boring a whole through the cutting bored with his eyes while trying not to look at the four guys behind him in line; who, like me, are no doubt silently mocking him.