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?

My ex went through a phase of watching Bear Grylls.

I printed out hundreds of tiny pics of Bear and hid them everywhere. In his shoes, in the sandwiches he took to work, in his shirt pockets, his wallet, under his pillow.

everytime my sister partner comes to visit he turns the pictures of us upside down on the wall.
hes now 30 and has been doing it since a teen.its a cute little things between him and my mum and I love how it makes him feel very much part of us.

My ex's mum had about fifty billion hideous mismatched pictures of boats hung on the wall in the living room. We turned them all upside down and it took her weeks to notice, the daft old bat.

a very good friend of mine used to post vegetables through royal mail - just a veg with an address label attached.
his finest achievement was a sprout.

This is outstanding.

Crows, we have crows, cuddly crows called Svens. We travel around the country and visit English Heritage sites, then we buy crows.

We use the crows to dance to the theme tune of different shows, it used to be the Musketeers and now it's Doctor Who. Points are awarded for style and content. Dd goes all out, way to much flapping in my humble opinion. Dh matches the beat with his crow, Christof Sven -amateur-

My crow performs stylishly with sweeping wing movements and a beakish finale.

The original crow is called Sven Actual Sven to distinguish him from all the other Svens. He is loved.

We call Stonehenge The Sven Shop and visit once a year to buy a crow.

I love my family.

We sneak gnomes into my aunties garden for her birthday 15 so far!

My nan always acquires anything to do with sheep for Christmas from my cousins

We're boring compared to you lot but we do yawn sections of the French national anthem
And we can't pass each other in a confined space without pretending to have a fully clothed quickie, as long as the kids aren't looking.
They sing a goodbye song to their dad in the mornings which was very cute as toddlers but now has developed some unsavoury rhyme substitutions
We used to leave notes in the shower using bath crayons but they are a nightmare to wash off, plus the kids can read now.
But I still write love notes on bananas .
I may have to reintroduce the magnetic letters to alleviate the boredom.

I once added some diary engagements to DH's phone not realising that it would sync to his secretary's diary and had no clue what he was on about when he (she) finally noticed a week later.

OP have you considered removing one of the corner magnets to help along the discovery

We have quotes we like: we both read The Curious Incident on honeymoon so we used to say "do sex".
We saw Thoroughly Modern Millie and one of the characters kept saying "Sad to be all alone in the world" in a cod Chinese accent (very un PC) so we picked that up too.
I'm sure there are more!

We create interpretive dances to every tv show we watch regularly. Which must be performed for every show.

We hide things from each other. Dd1 dreads the call for dinner because she has to "hunt" it first. Often it's found in a random cupboard, but has been in the washing machine, dishwasher, etc as well. I generally hide crisps from dh, and if he wants to know where they are he has to worship me (they're usually hidden behind me on the sofa).

We also write rude messages on the dishwasher with magnetic letters. Dd has a super push Scrabble set of magnetic letters, so we can write all sorts. Now dd2 can read we've had to clean the messages up but we still can each other stinky poo bum or other such child friendly rudeness.

Queen when dh was a teen he suck into a gnome lovers garden and used clay to fashion tiny erections onto all of them.

Snuck obvs!

We used to write rude notes in spit on the bathroom mirror. then when it steams up they show

Oh I once sent DH some Love Hearts (the sweets) in a card through the post. They don't take well to being put through the rollers at the PO. It was about the time of the anthrax scare.

"So it's all true, it's all true, I tell ye!"

Okay.

We'll go with that.

pitilessyank I am going to steal that genius idea

DH and I used to hide a small plastic lemon that came as part of a kitchen set that DD had...it could be months before one of us found it and moved it. I think it's genuinely lost now...but because of this thread I'm tempted to see if any of my friends with toddlers have a spare so I can start the game up again!

My parents split up when I was a teenager, money was tight. I don't remember how it came up but I remember us having fish n chips one night as a treat and my mum saying at least we're not on the chip line (as in bread line). That one lasted years

My sister also called a buffet a pick and choose which stuck for decades.

DB has written, "There are tiny elaborate chocolates in my mother" with DM's poetry fridge magnets without her noticing. Disturbingly Oedipal

Oh and we fought like cat and dog over a useless bit of plastic from a Christmas cracker (despite being old enough to know better). We called it the presciousssssss and my mum had to confiscate it and hid it in her handbag. Where it stayed for weeks until it appeared when she was in a meeting and had to explain to colleagues why she was carrying round a piece of Christmas cracker crap in the spring

Anytime DH mentions the word sausage, I leer at him.

I grope him whenever I pass him. I also give him the occasional wedgie, noogie or hide his phone in a random place.

He hides from me, and then will leap out when I least expect it.

All the soft toys in my house are really judgemental, they'll walk up to Dh and tell him about his failings as a person. They generally get thrown across the room, I'm not surprised they're so awful to him to be honest.

Since the old days when birthday cards had the price written on them - usually in the corner in pencil, my Dad would always cross it out and make it more expensive with a little witty comment. We still do it on every single card that we send each other some forty years later.
It is a family tradition to try really hard to peg clothes pegs to someone so that they leave the house without noticing - three generations of my family do this ... and we still think it's funny

@captaincanary if you really want, I'll post you one!

My sister asked me round to decorate her Christmas trees last year. She gave us the job of the smaller dining room tree but also gave detailed instructions on where all the decorations should be placed. organised fun I found it ridiculously funny to place them all in the right spot but backwards so the decoration bit faced the tree. Hearing her shout "I know you are up to something in there!" made me laugh even harder

I bet the Post Office are pleased its summer, otherwise they might have been dealing with lots of sprouts
Lovely thread OP