Family codes and ritualsFreddy Woo writes, "as a child we used to have a 'whoever cuts doesn't choose the slice' rule with cake. It worked brilliantly, but it's left me completely anal about dividing up food - my wife just takes the piss as I ritually compare all the slice sizes."
What codes and rituals does your family have?
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chthonic, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 18:05)
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Car journeysAs a fat family we rewarded ourselves and one another with food.
Subsequently, the passenger glove compartment on any journey longer than about a mile was always bursting with boiled sweets. I always had sympathy for getting car sick, but the truth was that I had eaten about 4 pounds of barley sugar before we'd got to the end of our road.
Anyway the ritual was "first person to see a red car gets a sweetie". then "first person to see a cow gets a sweetie".
Eventually one time, frustrated by low supply of glacier mints, my mother said "Christ, first person to see a giraffe gets a mint".
And I'll be damned if just outside Weybridge we didn't pass Gerry Cottle's circus, a giraffe happily grazing outside.
This story is retold in my family constantly which is making me wonder now if we aren't "the fat family" but "the fat boring family".
And aint dat da troof.
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browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 21 Nov 2008, 8:18,
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