Are your parents funny or interesting? Could you please tell me a bit about them?

[minorbird]

Hi, I'm a bit of a writery type - working on a sitcom pilot. I've come a bit stuck on a characters mum and dad. I really want to create a couple unlike whats been seen before... Mumsnet is brill for ideas... so I just thought I'd put this out there. (I put it in this topic - so it doesnt dissapear off the radar...)

Just to get started... I'll throw mine into the pot... My mum has a touch of undiagnosed OCD and has to walk the dog and go in the bath at a certain time or her whole world is thrown into dissaray. My step dad pulls stupid pranks all the time and is more annoying than anything else... Can you add to this?

Thanking you in advance...

My parents have a house in the country which they go to at weekends, my mum potters about in the garden all day in her sunhat minding her own business, my dad hangs about at the front gate waiting for locals to go past so he can chat to them, once he sucks them into a conversation they never get away, you can see them edging away while he follows them down the street, talking to them.

They are selling their main house where they live during the week, to retire to the country house, my nan lives in the granny flat attached to the house and my dad keeps telling her he is advertising the sale as 'granny flat, granny included' (of course he is joking they are taking her to the country with them)