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The cute --weird-- rituals/jokes you do with your DP...

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YouBetterWerk · 07/04/2015 12:10

Here are just a few of the personal little in jokes and rituals we have, but the more I think about it the less I think other couples have them!

  1. Puffins. Obsessed with them. Don't know where it came from, but we have notepads, cards, nicknames, all surrounding these bloody Puffins.
  2. 'Sunday Morning Face' - The blank excited stare, pushed right up against my face every Sunday morning.
  3. 'Bobble Hat Song' - Every time we see someone with a bobble hat on, we sing a song. I would post the lyrics but it is copyright.
  4. 'Stair Necessities' - Here we have a song we sing to the tune of 'Bare Necessities' every time I go up the stairs to bed. He will also change the lyrics to reflect what we've done that day, giving it that lovely personal touch.

This is just a small example, there are dozens more. We are both grown adults.

I asked my hairdresser about hers the other day and she looked at me like I was crazy and said 'Sometimes I guess we say goodbye in a funny way'

Please reassure me it's not just us!

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dementedma · 12/04/2015 15:27

Thank you yes and goady. Didn't want to bring the thread down but it does really show up the misery of an unhappy marriage.

Momagain1 · 12/04/2015 16:04

GoadyFuckAaargh
^love Francine! grin
however did that come about?^

Damned if I can remember after nearly 24 years!

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 16:28

Me and DD2 have our own club. It involves us talking to each other in really bad Eastern European accents

coco Do you know my DH and his brother? Shock They do this too - a sort of mock Russian. It's been going on the whole time I've known them, 24 years. Confused The first five minutes of any phone call with his brother are conducted thus.

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 16:33

Our dogs are called the Gits. It's short for doggits.

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 16:39

And when I spend hours on Mumsnet DH sits really close to me and gets right in my face and sticks his bottom lip out in a sad, pathetic 'pay me some attention' stylee and says 'It's not fair. i've got nowhere to go.'

This translates as 'I'm bored and I don't belong to any internet forum/community/pub type thing' and I tell him that the internet is a big place with lots going on and to go and find somewhere of his own to go, and leave me alone Grin

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 16:46

I am actually wetting myself and making weird wheezing noises at Sossidge 7th April 19:10:42

Momagain1 · 12/04/2015 16:53

My lovely silly dh was not my first h either. but it is hard to define the difference between things like this being lovingly done, or not. My X and I had coded remarks, which at the time I would have said were the same as these things, but after getting away, I realise those remarks were more passive aggressive or even emotional abuse. (Being flung both ways, mind you, not just him to me). Which is why it is so easy to suddenly find yourself in a deep mess, you think you know what is happening, until you realise you were mis-reading everything.

But this has reminded me of another thing: GHT and BHT (Good Husband Things and Bad Husband Thing). Also GWT/BWT (W = wife, obviously).

Pretty much as it sounds, he would do something, and I would say it was a GHT, meaning he should keep it in mind for the future, for example: making coffee in the morning. Or, maybe i said would take out the rubbish before leaving the house, but then didnt, when He got home to a smelly house, he might say I did a BWT. It was a very uneventful, no big deal, not nagging or critical way to sort expectations, standards, limits on everything from housekeeping to sex. It was a shorthand way of defining small details of how each of us hoped the little tasks of living together would or wouldnt happen, or opening a conversation about a big issue. This makes it sound like we used it constantly, it was more a low volume but consistent habit.

We adopted it from a couple I knew, though we added the wife side. With them, it was all her directing him, and honestly it seemed unbalanced and controlling! The first time of my dh did something innocuous and then asked GHT or BHT?, it was a joke after spending a day with them. But, then it became a useful thing for the first couple of years.

Momagain1 · 12/04/2015 17:07

LOL at the secret club accents. My brother and some of his high school friends did this and taught themselves a bit of russian from a book. When my brother joined the US military, his security clearance was rather high, resulting in him sometimes being shadowed when he was on leave. His high school friend picked him up at the airport once, and they greeted each other in their time honored way. The man who had been sitting in every airport gate lounge and on every flight that db was, but never so much as nodded at him in recognition of the interesting coincidence of travelling from and to such end of the line towns as his military base and our home, perked RIGHT up when he heard them greeting each other in pidgen 'russian'!

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 17:16

we have a race to see who can fasten the buttons on the duvet cover quickest when we're changing the bed, no words are exchanged, we just try speed up and up and whoever wins rolls eyes and complains about the other one's laziness.

We do this too! Exactly the same routine. Grin

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 17:24

My DH's car is a Toyota and every single time we are together and we happen to drive past the Toyota dealer in our town he will point at it and say 'That's where I got my car.'

This happens about once a fortnight for the last four years.

BigPawsBrown · 12/04/2015 17:27

We chant when we go up the stairs to bed:

Big Boys Going To Bed, We're Big Boys Going To Be

Fairenuff · 12/04/2015 17:34

When dh and I first started sleeping together, one time I, er, expressed a preference Blush and dh said quite solemnly 'Noted' and we both got the giggles.

Since then we say it quite a lot when one of us expresses an opinion on everyday things Grin

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 17:42

Oooh I've just remembered another one. This is really sweet actually.

When DH and his brother were little they used to visit Hull Fair when it was in town. This was the absolute highlight of their year. They would get so excited and when they were sent to bed they would discuss at great length all the things they were most looking forward to doing at Hull Fair, waltzers, trying to win a goldfish, ferris wheel etc.

This became a yearly ritual where they would go to bed all excited and say 'Let's talk about Hull Fair.'

So now, whenever we are giddy with anticipation about something (going on holiday or buying a new car or anything we are looking forward to) and we are tucked up in bed and one of us broaches the subject, the other will say 'Are we going to talk about Hull Fair?'

Grin
Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 18:07

And another ….thread hogging now Blush

When my youngest was about 7 or 8 my older DS was given the board game Risk for Christmas. It's really laborious to set up as it involves placing dozens of tiny toy soldiers on the board and the rules are really complicated. We'd spent about an hour doing all this, and just as we were ready to start play my little DS accidentally knocked the board and tipped the pieces everywhere. One of my older children shouted 'Oh you idiot, you RUINED Christmas' so my DS burst into tears and stomped off for the world's longest sulk, which did indeed ruin Christmas, or at least the rest of the evening.

He is sixteen now, and every year since and probably for the rest of his life he is accused at some point of ruining Christmas. Grin

Crossfitmyarse · 12/04/2015 18:08

in a jokey way, I might add.

YouBetterWerk · 12/04/2015 21:00

Love that there are now 300+ of these fucking odd adorable stories now Smile

Crossfit that Hull Fair thing is so freaking cute.

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jeanmiguelfangio · 12/04/2015 22:23

Reading this thread has made me think of all the crap endearing things me and DH do!
I also do the cotton on your shorts thing (my granddad started that one) and we whistle to find each other, which is fab apart from the time he forgets we are together and the person we have lost doesn't know the whistle!
We quote Gavin and Stacey a lot, mostly because we love it and no one we know has seen it so it works like a little private joke, and we always do the food in the middle of the table gesture every time someone mentions a takeaway
We frequently say shut up, no you shut up on and on.
Also any tv programme I watch is referred to the worlds blankiest blank because apparently that's all I waych, and if an ad comes on for something I'll like 'that's the kind of crap you like' tbf I've normally already tivoed it!!
Also on the phone driving, if asked where you are you are either passing the station or the garden centre. That's a long standing family one too!
This thread has made me realise how much I love my husband and it's been a rough week in the fangio house so thank you all!!

wanderings · 13/04/2015 09:26

As well as our eyes-covered-for-present-wrapping rituals, we sometimes kidnap each other for surprise trips out. The "victim" is blindfolded and can only wonder where they are being driven. A fairly short journey can seem a lot longer when you can't see! (One of these trips was for us to have a lesson for our first wedding dance; he was very sceptical of the idea, but loved the trip!)

A few times also we have pretended we're on one of those reality TV shows: I've blindfolded DH and dropped him off somewhere, and he has to work out where he is and find his way back by public transport (with only a basic mobile phone so he can't cheat and use Google Maps). He's always succeeded!

YesIDidMeanToBeSoRudeActually · 13/04/2015 12:39

The Hull Fair story is very very sweet.

Rosieliveson · 13/04/2015 13:49

This thread is making me smile so widely Grin
Another thing we do ... if we are in a pool together one will swim right up against the other's face saying "excuse me, excuse me, could I pass?" But if the other moves the 'passer' moves too and keeps going. So hard to swim and laugh at the same time!

YouBetterWerk · 13/04/2015 14:19

Rosie nicking that one.
Grin

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FriendlyLadybird · 13/04/2015 14:41

Just read more of these -- excellent! We have a duress code too, though I won't tell you what it is.

Another thing we do is that if one of us sneezes, the other will say 'bless you'; if that is followed by another sneeze, the rejoinder is 'bless you again'; after the third sneeze, however, we say sternly, 'you're milking it now.' DH gets quite bad hay fever so this happens a lot in the summer months!

If either of us tries a new recipe that the other doesn't like much, we say, 'It was nice for a change.'

One of the sweetest things that DS (13) said to us was 'you two ... sometimes it's almost as if you're the same person. And you're nowhere near as funny as you think you are, by the way.'

HellKitty · 13/04/2015 14:49

The second time I made him sausage casserole he insisted on taking me out instead. So sausage casserole = something he doesn't like much Grin

MrsPnut · 13/04/2015 15:23

OH opens the bedroom curtains every morning naked after his bath and shouts "morning vicar"

If I ever ask him if he enjoyed his dinner, he replies "it provided adequate nutrition thank you".

If there is a bad language warning before something on TV, then we have to shout - oh fucking hell not again.
We also have a strange thing going on with secretary generals of the UN. One of us will exclaim Boutros Boutros Ghali out of the blue and it becomes a competition.
We have loads of made up words for things and if you didn't quite hear what the other said then you have to say half past two.

loveareadingthanks · 13/04/2015 15:42

We have a few...but we're only a couple of years into relationship and they develop over time.

If one gets up for a wee, the other will say 'have one for me too'.

If one gets up while other is awake, 2nd person on waking will make zombie groan noises of increasing volume until brought a cuppa in bed.

From TV show, drinking cheer 'Up the regiment!' Answer 'I wish I was there!'.

When football is on we sing along to The Chaaaaaaaampioooons in silly operatic voices.