Some ways in which The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has invaded my family:
About an hour or so, I got a text from my aunt. She told me she'd be picking me up from the library I'm currently at, going on to say, "I forgot to bring my towel to school today". (She's a kindergarten teacher, hence the reference to school.) She actively dislikes Hitchhiker's Guide, but she makes references to it around me, which I find quite nice of her. In addition to this, she also tells me I can wear my uncle's bathrobe whenever I'm at her house. (My uncle has a magnificent bathrobe and I sometimes wear bathrobes as a Hitchhiker's Guide reference.)
Furthermore, whenever I go to my grandparents' house, my grandma always leaves a towel out for me. She generally puts it on a bed in a back room that I stay in whenever I spend the night at their house. It doesn't matter if I'm spending the night; she always puts out the towel and tells me there's a towel for me. She always makes sure I know where my towel is. Also, she has a piano at her house, and whenever I play a certain song that I wrote, she comes out and says that she likes hearing the song about "Arthur Denton in the Bathrobe". She was, for a while, under the misconception that Arthur Dent's name was Arthur Denton. The song, incidentally, is called "The Brown Box's Theme". The Brown Box isn't from anything in particular. It's not a reference to anything. I just thought it would be neat to have a song that was a theme song for an unidentified brown box. She somehow associated it with Arthur Dent.
As for my immediate family (i.e. the people with whom I live), my sister is firmly aware that I like Hitchhiker's Guide (she's always firmly aware of whatever fandoms happen to be consuming my life), and she knows most of the references I routinely make, although she doesn't always know they're from Hitchhiker's Guide. (e.g. she knows the phrase "don't panic" but she didn't know what it was from until semi-recently.) She's also in the habit of calling me "Can't-Get-the-Hang-of-Thursdays-Person", usually when I leave the room. When she's in the kitchen and I'm making tea, she calls out, "Bye, Can't-Get-the-Hang-of-Thursdays-Person!" when I go.
It's funny what this shows about my family and possibly people in general. They're aware that I like something because I mention it by name rather frequently, but when I make indirect references to it, they know that I'm making references because, if I use a repeated phrase ("don't panic") or reference to a concept/thing (towels), it's obviously from something. If Hitchhiker's Guide were my only fandom, then they'd probably assume that I'm referencing it. But they also know that I'm into Doctor Who and Sherlock and I think a number of other things (I have no idea what they know I like anymore). Since they don't have any one thing to pinpoint the reference to, and knowing what it's a reference to doesn't affect their lives, they don't bother to find out. They just know that it is a reference, and they make it around me to please me. People can infer that repeated things are specific parts of a bigger concept or thing, but if it doesn't affect them and they are surrounded by a lot of such concepts and things, they don't make an effort to figure out what it's a part of. Or something to that effect.
Furthermore, whenever I go to my grandparents' house, my grandma always leaves a towel out for me. She generally puts it on a bed in a back room that I stay in whenever I spend the night at their house. It doesn't matter if I'm spending the night; she always puts out the towel and tells me there's a towel for me. She always makes sure I know where my towel is. Also, she has a piano at her house, and whenever I play a certain song that I wrote, she comes out and says that she likes hearing the song about "Arthur Denton in the Bathrobe". She was, for a while, under the misconception that Arthur Dent's name was Arthur Denton. The song, incidentally, is called "The Brown Box's Theme". The Brown Box isn't from anything in particular. It's not a reference to anything. I just thought it would be neat to have a song that was a theme song for an unidentified brown box. She somehow associated it with Arthur Dent.
As for my immediate family (i.e. the people with whom I live), my sister is firmly aware that I like Hitchhiker's Guide (she's always firmly aware of whatever fandoms happen to be consuming my life), and she knows most of the references I routinely make, although she doesn't always know they're from Hitchhiker's Guide. (e.g. she knows the phrase "don't panic" but she didn't know what it was from until semi-recently.) She's also in the habit of calling me "Can't-Get-the-Hang-of-Thursdays-Person", usually when I leave the room. When she's in the kitchen and I'm making tea, she calls out, "Bye, Can't-Get-the-Hang-of-Thursdays-Person!" when I go.
It's funny what this shows about my family and possibly people in general. They're aware that I like something because I mention it by name rather frequently, but when I make indirect references to it, they know that I'm making references because, if I use a repeated phrase ("don't panic") or reference to a concept/thing (towels), it's obviously from something. If Hitchhiker's Guide were my only fandom, then they'd probably assume that I'm referencing it. But they also know that I'm into Doctor Who and Sherlock and I think a number of other things (I have no idea what they know I like anymore). Since they don't have any one thing to pinpoint the reference to, and knowing what it's a reference to doesn't affect their lives, they don't bother to find out. They just know that it is a reference, and they make it around me to please me. People can infer that repeated things are specific parts of a bigger concept or thing, but if it doesn't affect them and they are surrounded by a lot of such concepts and things, they don't make an effort to figure out what it's a part of. Or something to that effect.