Our Little Inside Jokes
May 23rd, 2009
After only just 5 months of marriage and over 3 years of knowing each other, Jess and I have developed a lot of inside jokes and habits that most people would find just plain odd. I’ve decided to do a translation for those who will be near us in the future:
- If you see one of us pat the other kind of forcefully on the shoulder 3 times, this is our quiet way of say “love you”. It comes from a Family Guy episode:
- If you hear something like a kiss and are wondering where it’s coming from, Jess and I tend to do the kissing sound from across the room and it’s the other’s job to reciprocate. Don’t know where this began but it’s stuck.
- If you’re in the car with us, and I go off center, Jess will normally say, or I’ll beat her to it and preemptively say, “road”. This came from when we were dating and I’d look at her on our way to Christiansburg and Jess would react and say, “Road!” if I started shifting at all. Now that she is more comfortable with me as a driver, she just says it in a “whatever”-like tone.
- “The Blue One”: About a year ago there was a commercial of a husband and his wife. Every time she asks him, he answers and she does the exact opposite. It was a verizon commercial and the husband wants the blue phone. When the wife asks “Which color do you think is me?” The husband thinks for a second and goes “…the blue one.” She obviously takes the red one and he gets the phone he wants. Whenever Jess asks me my opinion and immediately does the opposite, I always say “The Blue One.”
That’s all I can think of at the moment, but if I can think of any more in the next couple of days, I’ll add them.