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?

I have reported this thread for classics.

@dontpokethebear great shout. I need more!!!

Some of the more recent posts have reminded me of a couple more things.

If we're driving down the road and a car is coming towards us but with little, or no, room to pass us - but where they should have pulled in to let us pass, but they haven't - DP growls "GET BACK" (only audible in our car). Again, this has developed into something we have to say in unison. We did it once when we were passengers in a minicab - our driver was a little discombobulated!

DP also has a habit of yapping if he hears one of our neighbours dogs yapping. This backfired on him the first time he did it when one of the cats was in the room, poor MadFruCat leapt off the sofa, shot out of the room and went to hide under the bed . DP is now banned from yapping in front of the cats!

I remembered another one this morning. If someone sees a rainbow, we say: "IT'S A RAINBOW!" In the style of Bullseye.
Then lots of "look at what you could have won" (a pot of gold) and general Bully jokes.
I have no idea when or how this started.
We like a bit of Bully in this house.

My ex and I used to do the Taggart "Murdher" but it got a bit out of hand and spilled over into any word containing ur/er. At it's peak we'd deliberately try and make up sentences with it in.

Some excellent child-annoying ideas on this thread, thank you!

It's not a family one, but when I was at school my class arrived in a steamed up classroom to find PRAWN written in the condensation on a window. Thenceforth we all wrote PRAWN on every steamed up window we came across. I carried on doing it for quite a lot of years after I left the school .

My current favourite is quite new. I have an "I was right" dance. Which obviously I do every time I am right and one of the others is wrong. Which is ALL the time

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 think this is my favourite, because it's the sort of thing my Dad used to do as well.

DH and I have a few of these - nicknames for each other the origins of which neither of us can now remember. The day he called me 'bucket' in front of MIL and had no explanation whatever is a fond memory...

Quite a lot come from comedians as well - yesterday DH left the house only to return 5 seconds later because a neighbour was coming out of their house and 'there's no cover for four' (i.e. when you've bumped into someone several times in one day and it gets increasingly awkward - the fourth meeting being the one where you've run out of smalltalk.) He hid until the coast was clear.

"You wouldn't want to fall in there in just your pants" is another household phrase, which can be applied to any body of water on a cold day, a patch of nettles, an ants' nest, etc etc.

We do a lot of singing our own words to tunes, a recent favourite being the other day when 'Livin' on a prayer' came on the radio just as I was taking DD up to bed, so we had a full rendition of 'Goin' up the stairs' complete with air guitar and power sliding.

The first person who spots the sign on the A30 for "broadwoodwidger" shouts it out. Even if you are the only one in the car.

"It's gone the way of the pineapple" means there is food in the fridge that's gone off.

All furry friends have personalities, I'll be very sad when DD stops doing this.

We used ukip posters and would hide them in each other's belongings, on the bedroom window, hidden under the pillow, in a coat pocket, stuck on the car back window etc

My dh is Italian. There is an expression in Italian "che culo" which you use when you think you've been particularly lucky. But dh thinks it's vulgar so he always says it in Enflish translation. Thus when we find the last parking space he always shouts "I have the lucky arse!" Which apparently isn't vulgar at all.

When dd wants her hair in a sort of half pony tail with only the side bits in the elastic she always asks for a Katy Deal. Katy Deal was a friend of mine at primary school who always had her hair like that - I haven't seen her for over 30 years though. Katy are you on mn??

We do the "there's been a muurdurrgh" a la taggart too. And whenever we drive across the Essex county border (surprisingly often) and pass the big road sign saying "Essex", DH and I both have to say " Ehhsehhhhx" in a deep Phil Mitchell type voice. I'm sure there's others we do too.

Where did you get the s, c and t for "secrit" from?

And we add things to shopping lists and to do lists - for example list of bread, milk, fruit, etc. I'll add diamonds, or nice chocolates for Caprifun, or on my do list it might be hoover, do form for school and buy paint, he'll add make breakfast in bed for mrcapri or book flights to new York. Endless fun here.

allegretto, that's hilarious

For those questioning the OP's letter usage. She has removed the word 'octapus' from the fridge. The octopus picture is being held up by some pictorial magnets. Thereby freeing up all letters for her to make the word 'secrit'. In fact, she posted photos up thread for clarification

I love all these!

DD2 frequently says "I have the chills" to which I OBVIOUSLY reply "are they multiplying?" (grease stylee) and snigger at my own wit.

I also frequently refer to both DDs (they are 20 and 18) as "mummy's little monkey sluts".

And whenever someone has the smallest ailment, DH is required to pontificate and then says "of course I am medically trained". This is reference to the fact that when I broke my leg he told me it wasnt broken because I could wiggle my toes...

Very quiet here compared with most, but obviously any mention of any relative has to have 'cos it's faaaaaaaamily' added on. Also both dh and i like classical music but aren't too knowledgeable, so we have a sequence based on a humilating episode where we guess 'Mozart' 'Beethoven' 'Scarlatti' 'MUST BE HAYDN'. The long winter evenings fly by

If we're driving anywhere and we see a Mini ,DD and I have to shout 'Yellow Car Padlock' - I have no idea why !

I've thought of a couple more. DH always spells shopping list items phonetically, so I'll get to Aldi and he'll have written orrinj joose, paster sorse, cheez, sossijes, appuls, froot, etc.

After one time when he confused Gabby Logan with Gabby Roslin we now ask 'who's that, is that Gabby Roslin?' whenever there's someone on TV and we're not quite sure who it is.

Where did you get the s, c and t for "secrit" from?

The fridge.

I've used the remaining letters to make an arrow pointing to the octapus, as suggested upthread, but they still haven't looked! Will take pictures later.

I think a few people haven't RTFT, GetThe. Your answers are very calm!!

creme we do the yellow car padlock thing too, no idea where it stems from!

When DH & I first moved in together we used to hide a little teddy bear for the other to find, usually tucked up in bed or on the window sill waiting for someone to get home.
We have random names for sex positions: poetry corner, bakewell tart & reverse bakewell tart.
Loads of silly in jokes which DD has started copying like shouting lol for no reason, calling my mom's dog a silly name.
We kiss bums If we pass by each other back to back or sometimes in bed if we're back to back. I always get a pre-sleep high five from DH when were in bed.
I love silliness, I think it keeps life way more interesting & I now wish we had a pet to voice!

NC as slightly outing

One of dc's is called Layla every time we say her name it's is followed by 'you've got me on my knees' then us making the noise of the guitar bit whilst playing air guitar. If one of us is telling her off for any reason the other one still does it in mime only that's assuming the other DD is not around and Layla can't see us.

We 'wet willy' each other all the time but we call it moist dingle.

DH hid a load of sticky bunnies around our house one Easter they are still going strong in various places.

If me and dh want to do different things the argument is settled by paper, scissor, stone maximum of best of 5.

Any time something is mentioned that is in a song the other person must wait for the song to be sung eg do you want anything from the kitchen becomes there's a rat in my kitchen what am I gunna do, no thanks. Would you like a glass of wine is red, red wine goes straight to my head, yes please and so on.

Any shopping list has random things put on it that are impossible to find.

God I could go on, we are a little strange

We do 'oh you've pea'd on the floor!' For dropped Peas. Never gets old!

This one is infuriating - when someone says 'guess what', you reply: 'egg and snot?' or... 'cold beans aren't hot?'