"King one still there on the whole bar! And I'm in a soundproof room...!"
That was the line that we kids would call out at each meal when we were younger. It was the statement that granted us the deed to the forked legs at each end of the table, so we could prop our feet on them for the meal.
First you had to get your feet on the bar, and then you had to say the whole statement without the other siblings speaking simultaneously. You could throw out one word at a time, but if they caught you right when you were talking, you had to start the whole line over again. When you got the entire line out, then and only then could you claim the table leg rest for the duration of the meal.
Don't ask me how that titular statement came to be the way it is. You just can't account for some of the things kids come up with.
2008-04-22
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That really is...weird...
We always used to try and be the first to see the town clock when driving in to Camperdown, where my grandparents lived. Just before the town there was a hill that we had to drive up, before we could see said clock, so we always tried to sit / half-stand as upright in the seat as possible to see it first.
Not as interesting as yours, but was really the only strange ritual we had as kids.
See ya soon!
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