Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.
Most families have in jokes, like most friendship groups. This is why your brother is the funniest person you know, though your sister is a successful stand-up comedian. Well, maybe not your brother, but it’s a tale I’ve heard comedians tell.
Growing up, we had a few stock phrases in my family, it was usually my dad who used these. Every time someone went to the barbers:
What’s the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut? Two weeks.
Every. Time.
I do miss him.
One he borrowed from a work colleague:
I want to see it on a concrete piece of paper.
As a family, we find it difficult to say goodbye on phone calls. Mrs S laughs when I talk to my mum, we will say goodbye and it will be another ten minutes before we hang up. When we visit, mum always stands at the door waving until we’re out of sight.
Now we have a family of our own, we have a few traditions and stock phrases. The most important one is letting people know when you’re finished in the bathroom. Lifted directly from “The Young Ones” episode Nasty.
Bathroom’s free!
Unlike the country under the Thatcherite junta!
Over the years, the adjective for the junta has changed. It’s currently Starmerite, it has been Sunkakian, Trussite (very briefly), Johnsonian, Mayite, Carmeronion, Brownian and Blairite in its time. But the important thing is that we know the bathroom is free.
Grim up North Heath 