I don't know if this counts .. but there were so many times when my mum would say "Don't go near the edge, you'll fall in.." - which never happened.
Also, I was taught never to say the word 'r a t s' indoors - which made for some amusing conversions when I was one the phone to my parents discussing my pet rats. (Actually I still find that hard to do; I have to make a conscious effort to say the word when I'm in my flat - elsewhere I'm fine).
Something else which I've inheritted is the absolute preference for walking in places by the side-door, and not the front door. The front door being reserved for wakes, and taking corpses out of. I suspect that's a Yorkshire thing though.
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I don't know if this counts .. but there were so many times when my mum would
say "Don't go near the edge, you'll fall in.." - which never happened.
Also, I was taught never to say the word 'r a t s' indoors - which made for some
amusing conversions when I was one the phone to my parents discussing my pet
rats.
(Actually I still find that hard to do; I have to make a conscious effort to
say the word when I'm in my flat - elsewhere I'm fine).
Something else which I've inheritted is the absolute preference for walking in places
by the side-door, and not the front door. The front door being reserved for wakes, and
taking corpses out of. I suspect that's a Yorkshire thing though.
.. Feel morbid now :(