
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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started by my mum, who has a bladder the size of a walnut. This condition appears to be hereditary.
I know the location of every public loo in town, all the ones in the nicer shops, the pubs who don't make you buy a drink in order to use their loo, the cafes who don't make you buy a sandwich, etc etc.
I have been known, in sheer desperation, to go for a MacPee.
When flying, I always 'go' before I board the plane, and again as soon as my ears detect that we have begun to descend. And probably at least once in between, even on a relatively short flight. My husband laughs at me, but I got the last laugh once. After landing, there was a problem with the plane or the airport (can't remember which) and we sat on the tarmac for three hours. Unable to use the toilets. It was a scheduled flight and he'd made full, gleeful, use of the drinks trolley. I've never seen him fidget so much before or since.
( , Mon 24 Nov 2008, 16:11, 7 replies)

I have often been for a McShit with Lies. I have even been for a WhopperPuke but then I was barred. :-(
( , Mon 24 Nov 2008, 17:12, closed)

up here in Scotland we generally say pee, rather than wee. Wee being little. Which I am.
Mind, you're not the first to remark on that ....
( , Mon 24 Nov 2008, 20:16, closed)

... who I think could and possibly should write the definitive public convenience guide book.
But it's the "Always pee before you leave home" that is most familiar. That must have been hammered home to her when she was a girl, since she never fails to trip off to the toilet before we go anywhere. She gets so anxious about forgetting that she sometimes goes twice. It seems that even the act of thinking "Do I need to go?" invariably invites the answer "Better had", even if you already have.
( , Tue 25 Nov 2008, 10:41, closed)
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