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The cute --weird-- rituals/jokes you do with your DP...

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YouBetterWerk · 07/04/2015 12:10

Here are just a few of the personal little in jokes and rituals we have, but the more I think about it the less I think other couples have them!

  1. Puffins. Obsessed with them. Don't know where it came from, but we have notepads, cards, nicknames, all surrounding these bloody Puffins.
  2. 'Sunday Morning Face' - The blank excited stare, pushed right up against my face every Sunday morning.
  3. 'Bobble Hat Song' - Every time we see someone with a bobble hat on, we sing a song. I would post the lyrics but it is copyright.
  4. 'Stair Necessities' - Here we have a song we sing to the tune of 'Bare Necessities' every time I go up the stairs to bed. He will also change the lyrics to reflect what we've done that day, giving it that lovely personal touch.

This is just a small example, there are dozens more. We are both grown adults.

I asked my hairdresser about hers the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy and said 'Sometimes I guess we say goodbye in a funny way'

Please reassure me it's not just us!

OP posts:
SnotQueen · 07/04/2015 12:21

Oh God, we have loads - I can't believe people don't.
I would explain them, but they sound so shit. You just have to be there.
I like your Stair Necessities song. Last night we turned The Power of Love song into a ditty about clean bedding. Still singing it today.

MaidOfStars · 07/04/2015 12:21

2) 'Sunday Morning Face' - The blank excited stare, pushed right up against my face every Sunday morning

Any other concurrent action that prompts the "blank excited stare, pushed right up against your face"?

Grin
FenellaFellorick · 07/04/2015 12:19

Thank god it's not just us Grin

we sing the wonderpets themetune a lot
what's going to work? TEEEEEEEEEEAMwork

and when going to the loo, the person going will sing - I need a wee wee
then the other person sings "I have to help him/her"

Alcohol (any type) is called a customary surprise

poo is 23-19 (when the kids were in nappies, instead of calling pass me the baby wipes, or poonami or anything, we'd shout 23-19, 23-19. (if you've seen monsters inc you'll know it's the human contamination code that sees them smashing in through the windows.)

I make my kids perform an act of worship if they want a favour, or a treat. This involves them getting down on their knees, then bending forward, arms outstretched, while making chanting onmmm noises. They are 14 and nearly 16.

these are the least disturbing examples I could think of.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 07/04/2015 12:19

Love those OP.

We write in one another's Valentine Cards "I still love you, see last year's card for full details"

If we see someone dressed entirely in one colour we say to each other "That's a pink party right there" (or whatever colour the person is dressed in).

If one of us do a indigestiony burp (different to a proper belch), we say "get me some bread" in the style of Cleveland.

NoisyOyster · 07/04/2015 12:16

We have a thing about penguins Grin and an in joke between the two of us about crocodiles. And we have to watch saturday morning kitchen on the iPad on sunday morning with croissants

Love our little bits that are only for us

QOD · 07/04/2015 12:12

It's just you Grin
We do feebly wrecks brain

You fuck off e or you fuck tea.?

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