Mystical rules of your household

[Cloo]

As soon as one hairbrush is located, the one you were using previously returns to the lost hairbrush dimension until such a time as the next hairbrush enters the dimension, thus forcing out another one in its place.

 

[jakethesnake]

Same, except it's nail-clippers rather than hair brushes.

 

[DotCommunist]

When Tank says it is bedtime, it is bedtime and you must battle him for space on your own mattress. If yer missis is round you have to fight for her space as well. This is the lore passed down fromfather to son, yea for generations.

 

[clicker]

Bin bags always split for the righteous.

 

[mentalchik]

As soon as the cat litter has been changed a kitteh will magically appear from nowhere and immediately deposit a huge shit in it....

that 19 yr old son will always manage to soak the whole bathroom when taking a shower

 

[Cloo]

Same, except it's nail-clippers rather than hair brushes.

We have multiple nail clippers from forgetting to take them on holiday, then being really annoyed that we need to cut our nails and thus buying another one. They all vanished early this week, but then two of them reappeared simultaneously, I'd swear both in places I'd looked the day before.

 

[Greebo]

Same, except it's nail-clippers rather than hair brushes.

It also applies to tweezers, scissors, needles, pins, glue, and any other thing for which there is no reasonable substitute.

 

[Glitter]

There are various pairs of scissors in the house. Which all vanish the second they are needed but are in the way at all other times.

 

[mentalchik]

that barely cooked oven chips will turn to carbon in a matter of seconds if your attention gets distracted

 

[DotCommunist]

on the third day the son of man will rise again and there will be no paper in the bog

 

[clicker]

You will burn 2 out of 3 pizzas.

 

[frogwoman]

behold! i saw a grey cat and its name was denver, and it walked over the bed and the windowsill, and then i saw another cat, and they unleashed the plague. the plague of falling objects.

 

[StoneRoad]

It also applies to tweezers, scissors, needles, pins, glue, and any other thing for which there is no reasonable substitute.

Not to mention the black hole that swallows single socks......and screwdrivers. The latter get turned into wire coat hangers and them emerge from a while hole in the wardrobe........

 

[frogwoman]

an object once retrieved from the black hole will select another to take its place.

 

[story]

Not to mention the black hole that swallows single socks......and screwdrivers. The latter get turned into wire coat hangers and them emerge from a while hole in the wardrobe........

A while hole.... Is that the hole within which things like hairbrushes and screwdrivers languish for a while before returning?

 

[Citizen66]

Shared house mysticism: Pick the most ungodly hour to drag yourself out of bed in order to get that desperately-needed shower and someone else that doesn't start work (or have work that day at all!) for a few hours will beat you to it. Followed by everyone else.

 

[8115]

Everyone has to do their washing on the same day.

 

[story]

Shared house mysticism: Pick the most ungodly hour to drag yourself out of bed in order to get that desperately-needed shower and someone else that doesn't start work (or have work that day at all!) for a few hours will beat you to it.

By the same mechanism, the washing machine always always contains a load of laundry unless there is no need for the washing of the laundry.

ETA I see that 8115 has stated the same Law.

 

[Greebo]

Fed up waiting for a delivery, a phone call, a minicab or something else? Just start doing something which is time critical or difficult to stop in a hurry, be it deep conditioning, real custard, dyeing etc. At the most incovenient moment possible, you'll be interrupted by what you were waiting for.

 

[Citizen66]

By the same mechanism, the washing machine always always contains a load of laundry unless there is no need for the washing of the laundry.

ETA I see that 8115 has stated the same Law.

Doesn't bother me that one. I just empty the machine and dump laundry on nearest table.

However, the mysticism gets clever to this and so the machine is just in use every time you need it.

 

[Greebo]

Shared house mysticism: Pick the most ungodly hour to drag yourself out of bed in order to get that desperately-needed shower and someone else that doesn't start work (or have work that day at all!) for a few hours will beat you to it. Followed by everyone else.

Been there done that - and it's even more extreme in hostels. One morning I ended up showering at 5am just because I wanted access to continuous hot water instead of cold the moment an adjacent shower was used.

 

[story]

The main mystical rule in this house is that if anyone brings over the threshold a generic hoody in either grey or navy blue, it will proliferate and replicate within the following three months, procreating until there is no more room on the banister. Then the cull can start.

 

[story]

Fed up waiting for a delivery, a phone call, a minicab or something else? Just start doing something which is time critical or difficult to stop in a hurry, be it deep conditioning, real custard, dyeing etc. At the most incovenient moment possible, you'll be interrupted by what you were waiting for.

This one works when waiting for the bus as well: nip into the library or a nearby shop and the bus will arrive.

 

[Citizen66]

This one works when waiting for the bus as well: nip into the library or a nearby shop and the bus will arrive.

Or light a cigarette. Only realised it could work to your advantage when I needed to quit!

 

[story]

Or light a cigarette. Only realised it could work to your advantage when I needed to quit!

Or nipping off to pee while waiting for your turn at a clinic.

 

[Citizen66]

Or light a cigarette. Only realised it could work to your advantage when I needed to quit!

This happened quite recently and was hilarious. My train back to London was BADLY delayed. It would pull into a station and wait ages - like half an hour or more ages. There was this guy that had this puppy with him and after eventually worrying that the puppy would piss or shit on the train, got off (and for a ciggy too) and within minutes he'd have to drag the puppy back on as the train was on its way again!

 

[DotCommunist]

behold! i saw a grey cat and its name was denver, and it walked over the bed and the windowsill, and then i saw another cat, and they unleashed the plague. the plague of falling objects.

A grey cat rose up from the sands and on its back rode the whore of babylon, only it wasn't the whore of babylon it was donny

 

[Manter]

No matter what you put in the washing machine, when you take it out there will be an odd sock at the bottom

 

[8115]

A grey cat rose up from the sands and on its back rode the whore of babylon, only it wasn't the whore of babylon it was donny

Remember the spider that lived outside your window? Orange body, green legs. Watched her build a web all summer, then one day there's a big egg in it. The egg hatched...

 

[DotCommunist]

when the cock crows three times you have denied the divinity of your alarm clock