Ritual

I think it's a ritual.

I tried to make these things easy for my family by setting up an Amazon Wish List. But every year my mum still rings me up and asks me what I want for my birthday, with an implicit "you never tell me what you want."

I wonder if the wish list has now become part of the ritual, she knows I have one and "Simon Jerram" isn't a common name. So me emailing the link to my wish list has supplanted me handing over a piece of paper listing various items I may like. My mum could get my sister to bring the list up for her, but then the yearly ritual wouldn't be there.

And they say men are difficult to buy for...