My girlfriend and I are in university together, studying different subjects but at the same campus.
At one point, we realised that we used a certain meme phrase to a truly absurd degree. It started ironically, but it ended up appearing in most sentences. Naturally, we decided that the best way to combat that was to completely cut it out of our lexicon, using competition!
We’d tally up the number of times we said it, and the person who said the most would get a punishment proportionate to the number of times they said it.
By the end of the first day, my girlfriend had accidentally said it seven times. I hadn’t said it at all.
Girlfriend: “How did you manage this? Not a single slip-up!”
Me: “…My course is about working in schools, remember? I’m going to be working with kids. Of course I can censor myself!”
