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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At first I thought that my family didn't really have any...... but then I got to thinking...
I can't believe it's not butter
When said butter first came out, about fifteen years ago I'd say, my mum and dad used to trick each other constantly one saying 'oh my god!!' the other 'what, WHAT?' and then first person saying 'I can't believe it's not butter' and so on and so forth. This continued for ages, resulting in my mum taking a picture of us kids, holding a tub of butter in the garden, developing the picture, and posting it to my dad. The picture was pinned to the kitchen wall for years.
There's a hearing aid shop.
Simple but effective. Whenever we were driving or walking past the hearing aid shop in my home town, someone would say something really quietly, and if the other person was stupid enough to say pardon, then you could reply 'There's a hearing aid shop there' I actually got my mum a few weeks ago... good times!
Psssst - Ah!
Simple. Person says psssssst. If the other person in the room turns to look you can flick them the Vs and say 'ah!'
There are a couple more but I'll leave it there for now!
(, Sat 22 Nov 2008, 20:58, Reply)
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