To wish that someone would discover my secrit?

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We have magnetic letters on our fridge, which my brother bought me just before we last went on holiday, in memory of the previous holiday which had magnetic letters on the fridge, where we indulged in a childish game of editing the other person's words by as few letters as possible. The best bit was when he wrote "homophobic nutter" and I changed it to "homophonic butter". Anyway...

The letters went on holiday, and came home and now they live on the fridge. For a while, we were changing the writing several times a day, now it can be weeks before inspiration strikes.

A few months ago I was doing some colouring with a child, and came home with a picture of an octopus, which I proceeded to put on the fridge, stuck there with the letters "octapus" (it's a cheap set - only one of each letter). Later, I decided to write the word "secrit" behind the picture - it's now stuck on at the corners with other magnets, with a small but I think noticable bulge where "secrit" is written.

That was about a month ago, and no one's seen it! I keep checking, because I'm sure if someone found it, they would change it to notify me they'd seen it, but no one has!

So, AIBU to wish that someone would discover my "secrit"?

And whilst I'm waiting, what are the similarly silly things your family does?

If you only have one of each letter how can you have 'octapus' on the front and 'secrit' behind? Surely that requires 2 of the letter s?

I completely love that Expo still doesn't get that you've simply written the word secrit. Rather than an actual secret.

If there's only one of each letter, how have you managed to write "secrit" as well as "octapus"?

Nelliefivebellies this all makes your house sound like such a lovely place to grow up in, although I guess teenagers maybe do a lot of eye rolling?!

We try to change each other's ringtones to something cheesy but it's getting trickier.
I am the person who keeps spelling 'bum' with the fridge magnets.

Okay. I'll call you.

So how did you manage to write "homophobic nutter" (or even "homophonic butter" ) with just "only one of each letter" (which you've said at least twice).

Which part(s) of this is/are not true?

My best friend has a photo collage of all her family.

I snuck a photo of myself as a child into it. It took months for any of them to notice!

I love to go into the office of a work colleague and add wacky things to his to-do list, which he leaves in his desk.

Examples:

1. Stay Sexy
2. Worship a False Deity
3. Belch Like I Really Mean It

Hot weather, prosecco/beer/wine whatever. Great combo for this thread.

I have not got a clue what OP is on about. But see above sentence.

My DH has a habit of leaving odd things in odd places just to annoy me. He had weeks of fun sticking the little stickers that come on apples all over the place for me to find. Strange man.

A dish she swapped the n for the b?

We voice the cat too. I thought this was a normal thing to do?

I write things on my adult children's shopping lists when I visit. Polygrip, haemorroid cream etc.

D'oh.

homophobic nutter/homophonic butter were written with a different set of fridge magnets on holiday, hence having multiples of the same letter.

I feel very clever because I can actually understand what the OP is on about.

If my husband and I do a small favour for the other we say 'you owe me BIG time'. I once said it to my manager at work and had to explain

These are making me smile.

DH and I have lots of silly things. If I ever mention a jacket, he has to say 'all over your jah-ket' in a French accent (I think this came from some advert in the 1990s).

If we have lemon yogurts and want to see if the other wants one, we say 'lemony snicket?'

We used to always have to do Sainsbury's kisses' (a long kiss which you have to stop in the middle of an aisle for) if we were in a supermarket. Stopped it mostly now as DCs disown us.

There are lots more silly things I can't remember now.

howtopickausername I love the posting vegetables.

Nemesia and Ceto, it doesn't say "octapus" anymore. Which you think they'd notice, and wonder where the letters had gone. I also wrote "binz" to stick the bin collection schedual on after writing "octapus" and before writing "secrit" (not bins because the s was already in octopus, so now that just says "bnz" and they haven't spotted that, either.

ADishBestEatenCold, homophobic nutter/homophobic butter was years ago, in a holiday home which had loads of each letter. My set is much cheaper because it was bought by my then fourteen year old brother who couldn't afford a decent set. So it's all true, it's all true, I tell ye!

Maybe I'll take photos later, if I can be bothered to get my phone from upstairs and figure out how to upload photos from a phone...

DH and I take turns to hide a sticky toy slug around the house so it will induce maximum horror on the part of the finder. Hidden under a pillow, inside a coat pocket, in an empty decoy packet of biscuits. The customary yelp announces that the slug has been found.

One of our cats has their own theme tune.

If anyone starts singing, Dh says "I used to like that song"
We also say "hello hungry" when the kids say they are hungry. Dd now says it to me if I say I'm hungry/tired etc.

Thanks for posting this thread op! It's given me a chuckle and I've already started trying some of the ideas out on my dd..

"What's that on your face?" went down well.

Will buy some magnetic letters and see what fun we can come up with.

Loving all these
Dd and I voice our horses when out riding as if they are having a conversation about us.
Dd pony is really posh and my cob is quite common.

My exflatmate and I used to draw penises in unsuspecting places - half way through a magazine for example. We called the game 'stealth cock'.