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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There was an imaginary ghost in our houseWe lived in a mad rambling victorian villa when i was little, and out the back there was a daft wee staircase that led to the maids quarters. A lodger lived there and she was really very unhinged but that's another story.
I don't know who started it, i suspect it was my dad, but someone said that at 10pm precisely the ghost would leave the maids quarters and go hunting for virgin blood. So of course, if me or my brother was up about then, we would hear the clock in the living room tolling and fucking leg it up the stairs because the only way to prevent some kind of spectral massacre on the stairs was to be in our rooms by the final toll of the clock with the lights out and in our beds.
I'm writing this and i'm realising what manipulative bastards my parents were.
10 o'clock at night - until i was 15
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Animanga, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 17:41,
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HahaYou should have just said "Oh don't worry dad, I had a lovely shag just the other day"
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I was ...just thinking that. That's a parental strategy that's bound to spectacularly backfire.
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