[lifeisstillgood]

This is a (modern, mistaken) conjoining of two similar phrases

- drawing the short stick (where you hold five sticks / matches, in your hand one of which is cut short but no one can tell cos they are held in someone's hand)

- Grabbing the shitty end of the stick. Which seems fairly obvious if a stick was used for any clearing out style work.

(there seems to be no obvious "short end" of a stick)