Not Speaking The Same (Programming) Language

(My boyfriend has made me an anniversary card with ‘I <3 You' written on the front.)

Mother: “Aw, what a sweet card!”

Brother: “I less than three you? What sort of message is that?”

Father: “Is it a love heart?”

Mother: “No, if it was a love heart then [boyfriend] would have drawn it the right way up!”

Brother: “Also he would have properly connected the curly bits to the straight bits.”

Father: “I still think it’s a love heart.”

Mother:“But [boyfriend] works in IT! It’s probably an IT joke that we don’t get!”

Me: “It’s a love heart.”

*awkward silence*

Father: “Told you so.”