Wife did embarrassing thing in hotel, now DD is copying – WWYD?

[pbopkg]

Posting here because I genuinely don’t know how to handle this without causing WW3 with DW.

We were on a family weekend away a couple of weeks ago, staying in a nice(ish) hotel. DW has this (in my opinion) mortifying habit of calling out “Housekeeping!” in a sing-song voice before entering a room, including our own hotel room. No idea why, she thinks it’s hilarious.

Anyway, fast forward to this week and now DD (4) has started doing it CONSTANTLY. Every time she walks into a room at home, at PIL’s house, even at nursery drop-off! This morning she did it in M&S toilets when someone was actually in there, and I nearly died of embarrassment.

I gently mentioned to DW that maybe we should stop encouraging it, and she got all huffy, saying it’s just a bit of fun and I need to lighten up. But I can’t be the only one who thinks this is just Not A Thing normal people do??

AIBU to want this to stop before DD starts doing it at school? WWYD?

If I heard a little girl says this as she entered the M&S toilets, I would find it really cute and it would brighten my day.

As did 'The Fart Monster'. Kids can be so hilarious and random!

Christ alive, it's not like she's shouting 'Hello cunts', is it? Relax.

I love my dh but he can be odd. For example he used to hiss at me like a fucking cat including in public. He did stop when I asked him tho

For God's sake man grow up. Your wife is just titillating herself, your DD is doing the same. Let them have their moment of fun.

I think it's cute that your wife did that 💚 We should all do it IMO

Yeah that's weird!

Wow my 6 year old has done much more embarrassing things than that. It's such a minor thing I can't really understand the angst. Even if you don't find it funny it's also not embarrassing, the person in the m&s toilets would have either found to funny or barely noticed, can't say I pay much attention to weird things other people's kids are saying

So. Many. Questions.

Do you not spend very much time with your 4 year old out and about? They do way more embarrassing stuff than this.
Eg say very very loudly 'mummy why has that lady got <insert distinctive facial/bodily feature here>' , or shout mummy something is coming out of my bottom!!! In the middle of a nice clothing store etc....
People do not expect 4 year olds not to say very random crap. They are four!

I must be missing something because I don't get the joke. Why is it funny to walk in somewhere and yell "Housekeeping" when you're not a housekeeper?

Also, any simplistic joke gets stale quick so I can see hearing it over and over again getting a bit annoying anyway.

Or is it the demanding to be the center of attention with strangers that you find off-putting?

I don't know. If my husband kept doing something that I thought was stupid or cringey, I'd probably just tell him that and ask him to stop and he most likely would stop. Have you tried that?

If it was a woman complaining about a man doing something so unfunny, the man would be called an idiot.

Unclench a bit 🤏

Christ you’d die of second hand cringe if you lived with us.

My DD announced at a family gathering that mummy likes to sniff her own knickers.

Don’t know where the fuck she got that one from because I am not, in fact, a secret snicker niffer but it did make me laugh 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Yes, yes you are 😂 that's brilliant.

Mine have said MUCH worse things than that out loud in the doctor's surgery. Mortifying at the time, but the world kept on turning.

OP as long as you don't make it into a 'thing', your daughter will get bored pretty quickly and move on.

Most of OP’s posts are AI

Have you seen that video of a tiny kid announcing 'Look! It's a fucking goat!' ?

There will be far, far, FAR worse things to come.

Let it gooooooooo ...

Thank goodness you're not my husband. You'd die of cringe.

Sometimes when I go to pick my son up from school I put on my dress with the frog face and we will greet eachother by saying ribbit, in the playground in front of all the other parents.

When my family and I are out and about and we get separated we shout CA-CAW! to locate eachother.

Growing up my brother and I had a rule where if one of us started beatboxing the other had to breakable, no matter where we were.

I think sometimes you just need to get a grip and accept other people having fun isn't about you.

That's so funny. Then someone corrects him/her and the kids says "no...it's a fucking goat" again. Something like that. 🐐

My son has always been obsessed with sniffing people's armpits.

He's also significantly speech delayed so he's not got the best manners.

We were in John Lewis café when he got bored of playing with his little lego set and just shouted across the table for the entire café to hear "oi let me sniff your pits"

So my son is also not a secret sniffer, he's quite happy being an overt one.

I used to do that to my brother when he wound me up. To be fair, I was about nine or ten at the time. 🤷‍♀️ Of course, the dickhead just wound me up even more then. 😡 😅

Oh OP if you are embarrassed by that which is pretty cute you are in for a whole world of pain when she really does do stuff to embarrass you. Try to relax a bit and she will have moved on to something else in a week or two if you give it no attention.

"secret snicker niffer" I'd sooner eat a Marathon (showing my age now) than just sniff it. 😋

Good grief, unclench. I don't even particularly like kids but I'd find it hilarious if a 4 year old marched into a public toilet trilling "housekeeping!"

@pbopkg are you as uptight and lacking in humour about everything or just this?

I would find a partner more worried about ‘dying’ of embarrassment over nothing or being more concerned what people might think of a child being cute far more cringe than anything your wife has done.

I wonder how else you refer to her when she does something you don’t approve of. I don’t blame her at all for trying to lighten the mood around you or for your child picking up something fun - which I imagine is in scant supply with you around.