To wish that someone would discover my secrit?

[GetTheGoodLookingGuy]

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 the word "stellar" comes up at all, the other person must shout "stellar!" as loudly as we dare. Sometimes this is just mouthing energetically, sometimes the cats leave the room.

We voice the cats, obviously. I voice StupidlyFatMrMortiCat, who is very effeminate and worries about 'starving away to a giant, fat, orange shadow.' DP voices HerMajestyQueenMortiCat, who gives people horrendous diseases with her death stare.

If DD(6) declares herself 'inbisibul,' she must be located by sonar.

Noses are freely traded. DP has sinus issues and can't smell much and DD's nose is very small and sometimes disappears, so a nose must be borrowed. They are sometimes eaten accidentally and must be hurked up in the manner of a furball, and presented proudly to the owner, dripping in gunk and spit.

My DS sticks googly eyes on every thing.

This is a lovely thread! My DP was for a time obsessed with the hardwood floor - any moisture would lead to 'the floor will WARP'

So now any water spillage anywhere now sees us shout WARP at the top of our voices.

When I was a kid I drew a house on the upside of a fairly valuable upholstered stool in pen. I don't know why I did it. I was generally a very well behaved little child and knew perfectly well I wasn't supposed to touch it. An uncontrollable compulsion came over me.

Weeks later my mum found it. I could neither deny it nor explain.

We voice the dog. She has a mittel-European accent. She also has a boring private life as an accountant working nights.
The pets give presents but they are things they would like themselves, like tennis balls and cat treats.
We say 'Can we afford it?' at inappropriate moments.

Sorry getthegoodlookingguy but potassium is K.

Meme wars with one of my siblings that escalate as to how crude and offensive they get. Both our respective partners think we are juvenile twats

Sorry getthegoodlookingguy but potassium is K

Ooops, typo. We made potassium her middle name so we can call her pK (as her first name is Poppy).

No one's discovered it! Still!

GetThe. You could use the y or the v plus l (?) to make an arrow to one side of the octopus pointing towards your hidden word?

When my husband puts anything in the bin he does it with robotic actions and a robotic voice saying "no long-er re-qui-red". I don't know why. It seems normal now.

I still have my childhood teddy bear who was called Reg and lives on our bed. When Rillington Place (drama series) was on TV last year my son age 12 renamed him "Reg Christie" and made him act out comedy stranglings (oh God this sounds so wrong) and now we all join in. My toddler appears with him (Reg) announcing "mummy I'm going to Reg christie you now!"

We call cake "Gek" because that's how my nephew used to say it. I also hate "wet gek" (gateau, trifle etc).

H and I refer to sex as "having the excitement" (Angela's Ashes).

When my son was little he'd get cross that his baby doll wouldn't eat the food he'd give her and shout "Eat it, baby!".
Whoever now serves up dinner always does it with the order "Eat it baby!" much to the alarm of our dinner guests

I love this thread!

Redgrapecornsnake haha that's just reminded me of the time I decided it would be funny to write 'willy' on my mum's notice board in the kitchen (after her commenting that she was a very observant person and I could do with being a bit more like her - lightheartedly). I went round a few days later delighted that she obviously hadn't noticed only to see my message had been removed and she had written 'tits' on there I rubbed it out and wrote 'arse' - came round a few days later to find her indignant because I had 'gone a bit far'. Looked at the board to see 'cock'... insisted it wasn't me - turned out it was my nan

This had me in tears, thanks OP.

On the other hand I am shocked. I never voiced my cat. Yes, I only have her for 2 months but this NEED TO CHANGE. Finding a voice for my cat as of tomorrow.

Oh yes, memyself, of course you need to find a voice for your cat. It's easy once you get started!

My dad and I used to visit a certain stately home when I was a kid. There was a sign in the car park reading: "5MPH DEAD SLOW HOOT"

We've never once been able to pass it without emitting long, mournful hooting noises out of the car windows 😂

I have a framed picture of Justin Bieber on my sideboard prominently displayed amongst all the pictures of the DC's. It was a joke gift from DS3 to DS2 and I commandeered it My neighbour dropped by recently and I couldn't work out why she was doing puzzled double takes!

We have a theme tune for every holiday. When we talk about previous holidays we refer to them by year and theme tune

My Dad and I used to hide a small Spiderman toy (it came free with some cereal) around the house. it went on for years.

DH and I have a special song we sing for people who walk out in front of your car. its called "get off the fucking road" and must be sung in an operatic tone.

We also have a song to stop our children falling asleep in the car that is usually sung in harmony although the kids join in now too.

Whenever any of my kids ask 'where's my x'? (X being something they can't be arsed looking for) I always answer 'x-land'. When they ask me what colour something should be I say 'sky blue pink with yellow dots on' which my mum used to say to me. Whenever someone burps we all say 'hallo Homer' in a Barney voice. DS2 teddy has a stern deep voice and likes to make moral pronouncements. I like to make up stories about the playmobil people e.g. The mum is always drunk and dropped her flip flop in the toilet, put the cat in the pushchair instead of the baby and the grandad reached over the barrier trying to catch a fish and fell in the penguin pool etc (I get told off for these). If I ever wear anything remotely revealing and the DDs comment I always say 'if you've got it, flaunt it' and they reply 'you don't got it' (heartless little beasts).

Ohhhh, I forgot about Charlie Chimp. Charlie is a great big monkey, with a big deep voice and a heart of gold and really understands when the kids (ASD) have things going on that they can't really discuss with me.

He also does Elvis impersonations.

How can you have written secrit and octapus if there is only one of each letter? This is not possible.

Oh my life notthebackdoordear rtft!

How I love this thread! DH and I say we're not real grown-ups are we? And we wonder what the real ones would say about us. Now I know we're not alone! So, DH has two superhero alter egos, Locator Man - he can instantly tell me where I can find something I've mislaid - and Sound Identifier Man. Sound Indentifier Man shouts out from the sitting room and identifies what I'm doing in the kitchen ("chopping onions", "opening the biscuits" etc) always in a super-hero type voice. If he gets one wrong, or if I find something before Locator Man, then I assume my Super-Villan voice and say something like "Your powers are weak old man, while mine grow strong".
When I call him from the train for a lift he answers as though he's a mini cab firm and I have to ask for a cab at the station in ten minutes but I have to loudly specify that I only want them to send the really handsome, sexy driver. When he sees me from the car he makes really loud barking noises like a dog that's just spotted it's owner. Oh, and when we hear then postman putting something through the letterbox we both bark like mad and run out to the hall. Not sure if the postman has worked out we don't have a dog...

@FruBayerischOla I don't lack imagination, unfortunately....😂😂😂

This thread is SOLID GOLD.

DP and I have a rule that when folding sheets together, we must smooch when we meet in the middle.

We don't voice the cat but his activities must be described in Middle English: forsooth, the savage beast demandeth victuals!

If an apology is required, the offender must assume the sad puppy face and make whimpering noises, in order to demonstrate the appropriate level of contrition.

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

This exact habit became a "thing" in DH's student house and got annoying really quickly. A ban was then implemented and anyone who slipped up had to make the whole house (& visiting girlfriends) a cup of tea.