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?

I thought we were odd but you've outdone us. You are my clan and I love your strangeness

We have our own bank holiday in August. It's called de Niro, swayze and Clinton holiday as their birthdays fell over it the first time we did it!

Oh and our shit cupboard is called the cupboard of ineffable wisdom

DD pointed at a freckle (on her face) & said "look, a pretty spot", DH said "no it's a beauty spot" & my dad said "actually it's an area of outstanding national beauty"

So now whenever freckles, beauty spots or areas of outstanding national beauty are mentioned everyone (5 of us) say a pretty spot!

Several years ago my ex bought me a snowman shaped bath bomb. We would hide it somewhere in the house. When the other person found it they would hide it. This went on for a long time.

Years ago I stoke some clothes off a friend and made a big paper mâché scarecrow to look just like him and put his clothes on it. He lived in a bungalow so I was able to stake it just outside his bedroom window so he would see it when opening the curtains. It completely freaked him out and I never told him it was me who did it.

I make my children call me mistress of the manor if I hear "mum" too often.

minty at scout camp jamborees "pegging" each other with clothes pins is a thing! Often with names on so they know what uni has pegged them.

I have to stop myself of thinking about the rude meaning of "pegging" that is most definitely not appropriate for scout camp!

Our Dog has his own theme tune. And there has been a blue mouse stuck halfway up the wall over our stairs for almost a year waiting for my Mum to finally spot it.

DS has a theme tune. When he comes in from school we shout the Pearl and Dean tune to celebrate his return. He joins in. Pah pah .....

We voice the cat, and many inanimate objects. I'm glad I'm not mad alone

Loving some of these! Sounds very familiar!

I used to enjoy adding ludicrous items to my ex's amazon wishlist, complete with explanatory notes.

We used to hide from each other too like inspector clouseau and cato.

Me and my brother still sing a song that goes "chicken tikka masala and a plain nan" based on my mum's takeaway order in 2001.

kingfishergreen amazing

Whenever one of us mentions a debate the other says 'was there lots of people involved? Could you have called it a mass debate?'
We've had to really hold our tongues with everyone talking about the election etc, the urge is often overwhelming.

A couple of years ago, the DC and I spent a good few weeks playing Hide the Owl. The owl was a giant horned owl decoy and almost 2ft tall. We did things like hang it outside a bedroom door so the occupant came face to face with it in the morning. I won by removing several shelves in the fridge and hiding it in there ready for breakfast. Happy days!

I think I might get the owl out of he garage and start it up again. Possibly by lifting it up to DS2's bedroom window at night on the end of a long stick and tapping on the glass... in fact I am giggling just thinking about it. (He's 16 so unlikely to be scared.)

I've just remembered that I hid Little wooden people in his room once after a Dr Who episode where they were turned into dolls.

We do the groping up the stairs and in confined spaces .

If the word murder occurs on any tv programme we both shout "Murdher " in our finest scottish accents as per Taggart.

We do coordinated fighting in the one will aim a punch in slow motion and the other will ,also in slow motion, parry that and aim another punch. Can get quite complicated before the laughing takes over.

But the funniest - for the perpetrator anyway -is the door trick. You just stand on the other side of a door that you fully expect someone to come through. The bathroom door is best for this but any door will do. But you dont just stand there as normal . Noooo. You stand as close to the door as possible,nose touching the door if you can.So that when the other person innocently exits they are confronted nose to nose with you. (Usually cackling hysterically just at the thought of their face).
Well it cheers me up

DS2 still has a small picture of Ainsley Harriot stuck to the ceiling above his bed after a game of Hide Ainsley.

DS1 believed for years and years (well past the time when he should have worked it out) that I only said "Night night smellyploppypoopants" if I knew he was awake. On the occasions he was actually awake he used to sit up and ask me how I knew.

she had a little imp figurine in some sort of metal. brass maybe. not sure. anyway. she decided it was creepy so she put it in the bin.
i fished it out and put it back on the mantlepiece.

I did this with teen DD. Gaius, the plastic figurine (Richard Armitage from TV show Merlin) was put into the charity shop pile. He reappeared in her old toy box. He was placed in the bin after that, reappeared again. Repeat. Somebody would say 'Oh look it's Gaius!' She left him in the end and he's still there amongst her old toys now that she's almost 20!

Last year on holiday ds1 brought a joke fake poo with him and it became the car mascot - it sat on the dashboard for the whole holiday and no one was allowed to move it.

Richard Wilson (One Foot in the Grave actor), not Richard Armitage!

Get some more magnetic letters and spell things correctly. Why would you want a child to see incorrect spellings?

My cat has her own theme tune

"Mitzy, Mitzy, Mitzy the bush kangaroo, Mitzy, Mitzy oh how I love you"

I love this thread!

Dh and I do a thing where we add s to celebrity names. Kylie's Minogue, Donald's Trump etc. I've no idea why.

We also like to make every conversation smutty, in the most tenuous of ways, before proclaiming 'in your endo' a la Scrubs.

Always always grope on the stairs or if we squeeze past each other.

If dh is sitting at the kitchen table working I often go and rest my boobs on his head to distract him.

I've thought of some more. Last Christmas I found a playmobil figure on the bookcase next to a ceramic Christmas tree, so I made him start climbing. The next time I passed, he was slightly further up, so I moved him up a bit more. At one point he nearly got to the top but fell off and had to start again. This went on for a couple of days until DM asked the house at large "whys this playmobil person climbing the tree" which of course ruined it and we had to stop. I'm still not sure which of my brothers I was playing with - maybe all of them.

We also have loads of songs for the cat, to tunes of songs we know, such as (to the tune of Freare Jaques): Poppy kitten, poppy kitten, sie ist suss, sie ist suss, sie ist der sussest, sie ist der sussest, in der welt, in der welt. Oh yeah, and we speak lots of random German despite two of us only having studied it to GCSE, two until Y9 and one not at all. We still call the cat a kitten even though she's six, and gave her Potassium as a middle name so we could call her p.

Our cat also has a voice.

I make up songs with DH/kids/cat's name in them. Today was 'Let's (DH name) and get it on'

If someone spills peas off their plate, they are 'escapeas'.