Sometimes Kevin and I will have a conversation, and at the end of it, I realize that anyone eavesdropping would think that we were raving lunatics. On any given day, we might discuss spongy ghosts, filthy bears and tons of other seemingly random, crazy topics .
When we first moved to our house, we were plagued by water...our driveway and garage flooded every time it rained, the roof leaked in about a dozen places (it took the roofers who replaced the roof about 3 times to finally get it right and leak-proof!), water would gush in through the downstairs windows during a downpour, the line to the refrigerator ice-maker leaked through the floor and into the ceiling below, and the washing machine died a spectacular, explosively watery death. I theorized that perhaps we were being haunted by a damp spector, a spongey ghost if you will, and the term stuck. Now, if one of us yells, "Ahhhh, spongey ghost, spongey ghost!" the other one knows to come running with a towel!
We bought our house from an interesting character. He was a big, burly man who polished his rifle and talked to us about bear hunting while we measured for tile. When we first toured the home, we found a bottle of vodka in EVERY cabinet, and since then, we have heard from neighbors that he was known for walking around the yard with a drink in both hands (and a cigarette in his mouth). Based on the amount of grease that coated every surface in the kitchen when we moved in, he must have cooked a lot of bears during his time here. Kevin and I started calling him the "damn dirty bear hunter" but that was quickly shortened to "filthy bear." Whenever we discover some half-assed repair or renovation, we just curse the filthy bear, and go about fixing it.
I kind of like being in this odd little club of two, speaking in our own "secret code." Are we particularly crazy, or does every couple create a unique language over time?
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This is so sweet. Paul and I have a code too and we can just look at each other and know what the other is thinking, this can be a good or bad thing as sometimes I cant look at Paul in certain situations or I start laughing.
I think it is a code that comes about from spending time together and sharing life's experiences. We too have an interesting array of catch-phrases used as nouns, pronouns or explicatives, depending on the situation.
Awww..how cute are the 2 of you!!..BTW..you are completely "normal"..well, in the "secret language" of married couples...LOL
All small groups do this I believe; I plan on being single till the day I drop dead, but our small company and my close friends have certainly developed "codes" of our own. Our company even published them on our Wiki for newbies. :)
LOL about "filthy bear." I bet your neighbors were happy to see the back of that guy! Not good for the 'hood to have a vodka-swilling, gun-toting redneck roaming the streets. :-)
I asked Ian if he could think of any code words we have and he couldn't. Neither can I. Well, do "dumbass" and "bigmouth" count? ;-)
Hi Emily --
You are not alone...John and I have a very weird vocabulary that only we would ever understand. What's even more funny, is that we respond (even in public) to our nicknames (e.g., once in Target, John called out my "nickname" from the other aisle, and everyone looked at us like we were mental patients on a day pass. ha!) I think it comes from spending so much time w/ your significant other, and it's more fun than saying our real names all day, every day...Some of our newest nicknames are based on our funny European trip -- I love to call him Gamla Stan (for the old city section in Stockholm); I just think Gamla is a funny word!
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