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To wonder what are the most [shock] family habits you've ever encountered?

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Sapph1e · 15/12/2014 23:24

Mine are: an ex years ago was one boy with two sisters and one night we got talking about what they called their genitalia when they were growing up. I was flabbergasted when he said "Oh, I had a 'cock' and my sisters had 'minges'" ShockShock

However that was not as bad as the family BBQ (same family) where we were all sitting around a table having a lovely lunch; me, ex-bf, his parents, sisters, sisters' boyfriends and then ex-MIL casually mentioned that she hadn't woken up till 9am that morning.
"That's not true," says ex-FIL promptly, "I heard you having a shit at 5." Shock Shock Shock Shock did not cover it.

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Summerisle1 · 21/12/2014 22:55

she once put cat food in his sandwiches

I think that'd be one "joke" too far for me. In fact, I'd be bloody livid and I doubt the cat would be thrilled either!

soph123kay · 21/12/2014 22:59

yes she sort of gave up after that i think she knew she pushed it too far to be fair tho he did really annoy her the night before and by the time he left for work she forgot she did it till he phoned her up. it was funny tho he said the whole canteen was heaving and called him felix for months after. we did put the baby moniter behind the settee the once and kept sneaking off doing scary voices he actually ran from the house thinking we was being haunted my mom actually wet herself laughing

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 21/12/2014 23:57

Superstarheartbreaker... Love the sound of your granddad, making a caravan out of the bedframe and driving it to Italy... GrinShockGrin

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 22/12/2014 00:00

Great thread, I'm laughing my head off at some of these.

Does anybody remember the post(er) last Christmas who was posting about her reluctance to go to her partner's parents at Christmas because the whole family would play the 'bum slap dance' game? She was left cold at these antics as was the other non-family partner... poor long-suffering woman. Grin

emeline · 22/12/2014 00:12

soph what you're describing is Xmas Sad.

RobotRuthy · 22/12/2014 00:36

unashamedly marking my space Grin

Rollermum · 22/12/2014 06:30

Slight tangent - my mum once put cat food in my sandwiches for school - by accident. She bought a posh tin from the end of an aisle and thought it was pate. She ate hers though as she used to have a reduced sense of taste.

AcrossthePond55 · 22/12/2014 14:17

I'm just place marking. This thread is substantially reducing my stress levels!!

M27J5M · 22/12/2014 15:00

I had an ex who's mum used to shave his back for him every few days! I know you get mummy's boys but there relationship was just TOO close! I couldn't handle it and had to get out

OVienna · 22/12/2014 20:42

I love diving off the balcony's story about the tinned meatballs her inlaws tried to pass off as a recipe from tbd Observer. Hilarious they Greg the need to try to pretend. For the first time ever my parents and inlaws will be seeing each other at the holidays. Never too late to embark on a new 'habit' thanks for the suggestions...Wink

WinterFire · 22/12/2014 21:19

I missed the photo!

HamPortCourt · 22/12/2014 21:54

We are all singers too Blush

A good friend of mine went to stay at her PILS house for the first time and she and her husband were DTD in the morning. MIL knocked on the door and shouted "It's Mummy, Do you love me Steve? Tell mummy you love her Stevie." This went on for some time.........Apparently it didn't put Stevie off his stroke! They were in their thirties.

phlebasconsidered · 22/12/2014 22:16

I think the giving voices to pets thing is normal. The entire family voices our rather dim dog to the extent that it is totally normal to me now. I took him for a walk the other week, and was so "in character" that when another dog walking lady conversed with me as I passed, I replied AS THE DOG in the DOG's STUPID VOICE.

What is amazing, is that without blinking, she replied as her dog. And I had never seen her before. The dogs had a very polite conversation and sniffed each other's bums.

ProfessorPickles · 22/12/2014 23:19

That's made me so happy that she spoke back as her dog Grin
What a magical moment haha

CheerfulYank · 23/12/2014 00:18

I'm dying at the dogs talking to each other. :o

My mom and dad have been married since they were 18 (are 54 now) and have worked at home in their own businesses for the past 15 years or so. Having spent so much time together has led them to have a bizarre sort of shorthand language with each other that probably seems very odd from the outside!

Also my dad is just given to saying random things he thinks are funny but only around us. Like when he and my mom were walking out of the grocery store and she said the sun was in her eyes. He shook his fist at it and said "you rascal soleil!" only to realize someone was in their car with the window open and staring at him.

He was mortified and my mother practically wet herself. He also used to wear fake bad teeth when I brought friends over.

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