Secret Conversations

I was having a conversation with my wife the other day and realised about half way through that although we both knew what the other person was talking about, neither of us were using specific language.

The reason for this? Kids. That's right, our kids were in the room at the time and we didn't particularly want them to know what we were talking about specifically, so we were referring to general things while at the same time giving 'the look' so that the other person knew exactly what we were referring to.

After 4 kids, we have developed this ability into a fine art so that our conversations can go like this:

You know that thing we were talking about earlier?
Yeah
Well, I was thinking, we don't have to get that, we could quite easily get the other thing.
Oh you mean the... (look)
Yeah. Because, you know we don't really want to encourage...(look)
No! Definitely not. And the other would be better suited for ...(look)
That's what I mean, yeah
I agree, let's do that then.

So we can talk like this quite comfortably and still perfectly understand each other.

The trick is though to remember not to do it with people you don't know that well or else they may think you're a little touched in the head.