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FarrahJobling

FarrahJobling

FarrahJobling
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It might be Tuesday already somewhere in the world and I apologize for just now posting...I have Covid brain today.

So...here is today's question. Is there someone in your life who has always done something annoying, but they've been doing it soooo long that it's become hilariously funny?

My husband uses reading glasses and has a bunch of cheapo pairs around the house....he is FOREVER losing them.....it's become a huge joke because he'll ask me if I've seen them and I can't help laughing when he tells me which pair he's looking for....the office pair....the bedroom pair....the family room pair....and I'll go around the house and point out every pair I see and it's always "nope...that's not the right pair" If it weren't soooo flipping funny, I might just smack him or tie a pair around his neck.
 
My 14-year old is on the autism spectrum. He understands common expressions, but he thinks it's hysterically funny to take them literally. So when I tell him to "head upstairs," he pretends to throw his head up the stairs. "Back up" means he lifts his back, etc. It's the kind of thing that was cute at first, then it got annoying (though of course we didn't tell him that), and now he's done it so often that it's funny.
 
rach3975 said:
My 14-year old is on the autism spectrum. He understands common expressions, but he thinks it's hysterically funny to take them literally. So when I tell him to "head upstairs," he pretends to throw his head up the stairs. "Back up" means he lifts his back, etc. It's the kind of thing that was cute at first, then it got annoying (though of course we didn't tell him that), and now he's done it so often that it's funny.
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OMG.......so so adorable. that is exactly what I mean...and my heart loves you and your son. My people <3
 
My MIL gets fixated on safety issues, but then flouts safety in many circumstances. When my children were little (and now she does it with her great granddaughter), she would always worry about "is that safe?" or "are you letting them do that?" or other some such questioning. Not in a mean way, just an anxiety driven way? LOL I'm not sure. Anyway, she would be walking around talking and might be carrying a huge knife that she was using to cut cake, and be waving it around while she was on the move. Like completely oblivious that what she was doing was way more dangerous. So we've made up little jingles about some of the things she does. And after all this time, it has lost the annoyance factor and is just a funny that we always pick at her about and that she always takes in a loving way.
 
Oh glasses, after all these years of scrapbooking, my DH thinks I have nothing better to do than hiding his glasses :eyeroll

So the first thing that comes to mind for your question is something my DD started doing maybe a year or 2 ago & then my son, & now DH & I try to turn it around on them - so I'd start leaving the room & say 'I'm going to have a shower ' or whatever I was headed to do, & she enthusiastically replies (but annoyingly) "Hi GoingtohaveaShower, nice to meet you", (yes, ugh) & it has made us pay attention more to what & how we say things, but it's also amusing when we catch her out because she realises it's annoying when we say back to her "Hi NotHungry, have some veggies anyway", (apparently all her friends challenged her not to do it on a regular basis last year, & started saying 'bingo' every time she did it, seeing she tallies things like how often a certain friend says 'okaaay' etc)
 
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