Family codes and ritualsFreddy Woo writes, "as a child we used to have a 'whoever cuts doesn't choose the slice' rule with cake. It worked brilliantly, but it's left me completely anal about dividing up food - my wife just takes the piss as I ritually compare all the slice sizes."
What codes and rituals does your family have?
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chthonic, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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hurrah, my first ever repost*Initiation rites
I come from a family that has roots in the dark ages, and they have this little tradition on the birth of a new child that involves a drop of the old claret.
Think of being blooded after your first successful fox hunt or deer kill, you get the idea.
Anyway the family had been going through a bad patch before I came along and the new lackey from the west country wasn't the sharpest tool in the box.
So eventually the birds and the bees performed the magic and mum gets bigger with child and after the usual 9 months gives birth to me, "BLOOD!" roars my dad from the bedroom to carry on the tradition
"Oy'll get it!" replied the plump but inept bumpkin wet nurse, and toddled off, but being a batty cow she only came back with tomato ketchup instead of a pint of type O negative, and let me tell you, that has caused no end of bloody trouble for me over the years.
Stupid bitch
Yours, Count Duckula
*It wasn't funny then and it isn't funny now, but I care not a jot!
(, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 7:41, Reply)
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