What weird things do you do to make your husband/partner/wife laugh?

[itssquidstella]

I like to flail quietly into the sitting room wearing just my pants when DH is watching TV and dance about like Britt Eckland in The Wicker Man.

What do you do?

I throw the bedroom curtains open and shout "good morning city!", like Emmet in the Lego Movie.

I do the Mr Soft Walk when he's on the phone.

Rub my (fully clothed) bum on him when he's doing something serious or is looking like he really doesn't want to be annoyed. I don't know how this even became a thing, that knowledge was lost long ago but after nearly twenty years of it he now expects it.

Whenever he starts talking about his childhood I start humming the Hovis theme. Sometimes I will ask him to tell us an anecdote "about when tha' were a lad and it were all green fields round 'ere..."

I speak some conversational Polish and German so will sometimes pretend I don't speak any English.

I refer to him as my first husband.

We have a duvet war sometimes when we go to bed. The aim is to take the full duvet away from the other person in as blatant a way as possible.

He gives as good as he gets and it turns out that love isn't just built on mutual trust and understanding, it's also built on deliberately irritating the hell out of one another

@BankofNook I might start referring to DH as my first husband, that's brilliant!

@SharpieInThe what's the Mr Soft walk?!

Breathe 😀

Not much at the moment as we have a newborn so our resilience to being wound up has decreased with our sleep! But usually...

• throw his pillows across the room just as he's got into bed and is about to lay down
• stick a finger in his mouth when he yawns
• really exaggerate my 'listening sounds', especially when he's talking about something I don't understand or is with other people. I'll stand there and do really fake "mmmm"s
• when he brakes when driving I'll throw myself forward on the dashboard and smack my hands on it acting like he braked too hard

Having read this back I'm not sure that any of them are to make him laugh, I think they're all for my benefit!

Wait until he's washing up and pull his trousers/underwear down so he's stood there with wet hands and his clothes around his ankles

Stand in the house and flash my bum/boobs when he's in the shed at the bottom of the garden

I was on a works Teams call yesterday and DH walked into the room with his cock & balls poking over the top of his trousers. Thank God he couldn't be seen on the screen but I did literally spit my tea out!

@itssquidstella there was an advert back in the 80s or 90s for soft mints and the guy walked like he had no knees.

I also do the pillow thing @itssquidstella

DH does a really good Glasgow Ned impression where he thickens his accent and speaks through his nose really fast, he uses it to argue points he knows are wrong. We rarely fight because it diffuses the atmosphere, it's had a good airing in lockdown.

@MrsJBaptiste that's exactly the sort of thing DH does! I pretend I don't find it funny but I definitely do 😁

When I was little and my presents were being wrapped, I used to hate being banished from the room, so my DH lets me stay while he wraps any he has for me; I just love hearing him in action. This ritual makes us both childishly happy - I love to keep asking him what I'm going to get, between moans that I can't see anything (because I'm blindfolded).

We have a stupid thing were we sing the "lalalalala" introduction to Minnie Riperton's "Loving You" in squeaky voices, one line each. You have to start because then you get to do the reallllllly squeaky bit at the end - so it's a competition who can start first!

"He gives as good as he gets and it turns out that love isn't just built on mutual trust and understanding, it's also built on deliberately irritating the hell out of one another grin"

Glad we're not the only ones. DP and I adore each other but can't help but slightly torture each other too, in a mild way. It's like a compulsion but all done in fun.

If he's trying to tickle me or comes up behind me to 'attack', I literally flop down to the floor like I'm playing dead. It makes him laugh every time.

I'm now trying to think what I deliberately to make him laugh. I make him laugh a lot but I'm not convinced they are deliberate things I do. More things I say I think.

One of my favourites that always makes me smile is one day I was trying to straighten the bed covers. I'm very tidy and a perfectionist. DP watched for a bit then crawled under the covers and every time I straightened them he crawled in a circle like a cat does when it's trying to find a good spot to sit on. He dragged the covers with him, making them a massive mess. I couldn't help but laugh as the more I tried to sort it, the more exaggerated he crawled around and dragged all the covers with him.

We're pretty stupid and have a very similar, childish sense of humour so it works well.

I do the yawn-mouth thing and he goes wild.

If he's sitting on our bed after a shower I run into the room and shout "catch me" and make him do the Dirty Dancing lift even if he's not ready for it. I've headbutted him several times doing it but won't ever stop til I'm 82.

I go outside his office window and blow on it with my mouth when he's on video calls with work, and flash him often.

I lick his face sometimes when he's snoring - he can't ever work out why his face is moist and even after 10 years of marriage he thinks he just sweats in his sleep.

How the fuck he's still married to me I'll never know; I'm a bit of a knob. He must quite like it.

Oh and every time he phones me when I'm in my car I answer with "Battersea Dogs Home, would you like Weimerarners or Dalmatians" and my favourite thing ever is that he responds saying "Springer spaniels please" every time.

Single for the past 6 years over here so can't add anything but just wanted to say I Love all of these 😆

My husband died last year, but I used to love pretending I had no idea who he was. Many an embarrassed waiter has been victim of that one when they tried to seat him across from me
Also quite hilarious when he would appear to help pack the shopping.

Hiding a toy snake in random places for the other to find unexpectedly.

A running gag on the phrase 'the joke's on you' (no joke is ever involved) e.g. 'would you like a cup of tea?' 'The joke's on you because I already had one'.

Ridiculous cockney-rhyming-slang style names for things e.g. pyjamas are Barack Obamas, dinner is Michael Winner ('time for Michael Winner').

Massive hyperbole and overreaction to trivial stuff ('Fred's left his bin on the pavement' 'OMG, the insufferable BASTARD!')

I bet the dc can't wait to get away from all this .

We have this really stupid thing . When one of us cannot sleep and is wonder if the other fancies a cuddle we rub a foot on the others calf...not funny so far but sometimes when we are both awake but one of us not in the mood senses other might be about to do this, we quietly rearrange our body so it is basically hanging over side of bed,so that when the foot comes searching, it cannot find anything. For some reason it makes both of us laugh uncontrollably every time!! Not sure I described it well....might need a MN diagram!!

First husband lol

Having just decided to split from my long term dp and father of my dc (14 and 11) I'm finding it difficult reading these. We had little things we did together too .
Sorry to hijack thread - I guess my message is to cherish these great moments between both of you

@StarScream22 that's hilarious, I might try pretending I don't know DH next time we're allowed out. Sorry for your loss 💐

We have a whole host of voices we do to make one another laugh...

We were in the car the other day having a full conversation in silly voices when DP suddenly snorted and said "Who ARE these people?!" and we dissolved into giggles so hard I had to pull over.

He also has a 'romantic dance' which is the least romantic thing I think I've ever seen (imagine an Orangutan hanging from a branch by its hands and rubbing its butt on the tree trunk). He likes to crack that out in moments when I'm a bit annoyed and he thinks sex will help.

He has a habit of putting the frying pan in the oven (don't ask, I don't understand it at all) and it drives me nuts, so I'll sometimes put other random objects in there for him to find. A full tea set, a shoe, Mr Potato Head...

@Whitegrenache I hadn't thought about how people might feel reading these in that way. You sound very lovely - I hope the future holds so much good for you.

Instead of ‘first husband’ I call my DH my ‘current husband’!