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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not so much a code or ritual, more a behavioural pattern.My Dad - rational man, physicist by profession. Prone to carefully reasoned arguments, logical thinking, and great calm.
Except that is when the cat is sick or poos in the house and nobody else is in.
If it happens on the carpet, then rather than clean it, he'll cut a square of carpet around the offending item and bin the bit of carpet, poo/sick in situ.
"That bit of carpet was ruined anyway" he'd reason, and "there was absolutely nothing else for it".
The living room carpet looks like an abstract patchwork quilt, and worryingly, my sister has been known to do it - so I see it as a disturbing family ritual in development.
Failing that, we could always take the cat to the vet.
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rofl harris, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 12:56,
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