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Shoes off the second you walk through the door, dinner no later than 7pm, or no TV before bed – these are just a few examples of house rules many people follow; and definitely not the craziest ones there are. It’s not uncommon for families to have rules—saying yes and thank you reportedly being the most common one of all—but some can seem bizarre at best for those outside of that home.

Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community have recently discussed house rules that would make many visitors scratch their heads in confusion or even fear some of the inhabitants there. User ‘Center_Power_Unit’ started the discussion by asking fellow redditors what was the strangest rule they had to follow when at a friend’s house, and quite a few people shared their experiences. Scroll down to find netizens’ answers on the list below and see just how crazy the rules in some households are.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Alright, I’ll throw a sweet one in here to break up the depressing stories.

At my best friend’s house growing up, whenever we would swing by her house, her Abuela (who raised her) would always have a plate of hot fresh food for us and had us sit down and eat it before doing anything else. Not in an abusive, mess with your relationship with food kind of way, but in a “Abuela made you some food and it’s the best food you have ever eaten, and it was made with so much love”.

Food was her love language, and even though she only speaks Spanish (I didn’t), you always felt loved when you when to her house and that was never lost in translation. I still miss her tamales.

(Belatedly realizing this sounds depressing since it sounds like she is dead. She isn’t. I just moved).

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma was this awesome levels of grandmas too.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing I had a friend in elementary school who had a controlling a**hat of a father who also worked some wacky hours - like had to be at work at 3 am. God bless him for providing for his family, but he forced everyone to adhere to his schedule. He needed to go to bed at 4 pm, so “dinner” was at 2:30, the landline phone was taken off the hook at 3, and everyone was expected to complete their evening baths/teeth brushing, etc and go to bed at 4. No tv, nothing. He expected the house to be quiet.


In addition to these ridiculous rules, he insisted that if his daughter was going to come to my house for a sleepover, then I had to go to their house. Every other sleepover had to be at their house with his ridiculous rules. Every other friend bailed- I think the “no tv” was the dealbreaker. But as young girls, the no giggling probably also played a role. I can still close my eyes and picture that ape of a man losing his s**t and screaming at other people’s children for giggling.


Anyway, I did it. I stuck it out. Because my friend needed somewhere else to go and I could do that for her.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You're a good friend, those nights at yours were probably her only escape so good on you for helping her where you could

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Your butt must be in the dinner chair at 6 PM sharp even if dinner is not quite ready. No speaking at the dinner table unless asked a question by an adult. You must eat everything on your plate, and cannot ask for seconds. No leaving the table before the Father (you could hear the capital F) dismisses you.

Coming from a family where dinner was a joyful affair where everybody talked about their day, I was shocked.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That sounds scary, it would make me scared to eat and scared not to eat plus i would get everyone in trouble with my nervous laughing

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Idk if it was a rule but we stayed the night at my mom's best friend's house. For breakfast we had cereal. He kids had it with milk, my sibs and I had to eat it with water.

I asked why and she just told me "No you can use water, the milk is for my kids."

I told my mom and she flipped out on her for that bs and never talked to her again.. it was a terrible betrayal especially since my mom did a lot for her.

My mom is the best.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing At age 12, I stayed at this girl's house, and she said some s**t before bed like, "Dad keeps an eye out so we're safe."

This didn't bother me til I rolled over at midnight and her dad was in a chair next to the bed we were in, just staring at us. Naturally, I got out of that bed and walked home, ignoring their calls and sprinting when they got in their car to follow me.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, the sitting by the bed is creepy AF and dude was probably a creep. But also, if a kid is staying at your house and then they walk out of the house in the middle of the night, it's kinda the responsible thing as an adult to follow them in the car to make sure they are safe. It's a lot different when they're trying to get away from you though.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing I had a friend whose dad was obsessed with the vacuum lines in the house and would vacuum multiple times a day. We weren’t allowed to walk on them because it would mess them up so we had to tip toe around the edges of rooms if we wanted to go anywhere in the house. I witnessed him beating the c**p out of her for “messing up one of the lines” my parents didn’t let me go over after that.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing My friends dad was divorced and lived in a big house with his new gf. he made women wear their hair up at dinner. We had to wait for him to sit before we could start eating. We could not leave until he was done. We weren’t allowed to speak unless her dad asked us a question. We got in trouble for playing outside in the yard without permission. As punishment we had to clean his shoes. I said something to my friend like is this how your dad always is? And he heard me and told me if I spoke about him again he would slap me across the face.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let my daughter(or any of my kids for that matter) come home and tell me some dude threatened to slap them and see how fast I go to jail! Just saying...

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Rule: Blankets are only allowed to be used on the bed.

I spent the night there only once because they kept their house freezing cold in the middle of winter and had me sleeping on the couch in the basement. I wore my winter coat to bed and used his coat as a blanket. I was 9 or 10yo and it was f*****g miserable.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone would treat my kid that way, I'd be over in 2 seconds having stern words with the adult in charge, possibly with the police as well and then cutting all connections.

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At my childhood best friend's house, I had to wear disposable shoe covers over my shoes or socks and rubber gloves and I wasn't allowed to sit on any of the furniture because her mom didn't want me touching anything. I was the only one who had to do this. Her brother, cousins, or her other friends didn't have to. Just me. I visited her house six times before my mom was like "no, you're not going there to stand around like a statue. B comes here to play or you two don't play at all."

I found out years later, after my friend's mom died, it was because she didn't like white people. I was my friend's only white friend. I also discovered that if she visited my house, she would go home and her mom would scrub her down in the shower.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm surprised he went there 6 times and did all that. I don't think I'd come back after the first visit.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Stayed at a friend's house one night and the family communicated exclusively through whispering...not just hushed voices but full on hand to ear. Serious mind f**k.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve neighbors who are virtually silent when home. A typical mom, dad, teen son & older teen daughter. They watch movies/shows, odors or listen to music exclusively through headphones. They never or rarely have shared experiences whilst home because they’re all off quietly doing their own thing, minimizing interaction. The extends to meals, which are taken in each own space. They believe this is the way to respect others in shared spaces. Meanwhile, I come from a large family with a very loud home and anything remotely like their home would be taken as a silent treatment or insult of some sort. There’s a nuance to knowing when & how to interacted and be vocal or make noise. These kids aren’t going to leave the nest with paramount respect for other’ privacy & quietness, but come across as withdrawn & disinterested.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing I stayed with my girlfriend's family for a few days one college break. They had a rule at breakfast that you could never have just a single type of breakfast cereal - it always had to be a mix of two different boxes. But not any two - had to be flakes with flakes, or Os with Os. I don't know what Cap'n Crunch matched with. I had toast.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can see mixing a "sugary" cereal with a "plain" cereal to cut back on sugar intake, but that's the only reason I can come up with.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing I wasn’t allowed to throw any “female waste products” in the house, aka I’d have to wrap my tampon or pad and throw it out in the outside trash…I went home.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing I’m white but I grew up in a black neighborhood.

4-5 of my freinds parents wouldn’t let me use the front door. A couple wouldn’t let me come in their house at all.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friends grandmother wouldn't let me use her bathroom to change my tampon when I was like 14..I had to walk home leaking

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I was 11 and spent the weekend at a friend's house. Her mom got us (me, my friend, and her 9 yo brother) up super early. After breakfast, she told us we had to go outside, and no matter what, we couldn't come back in until 6 pm. I asked her what we were supposed to do for 12 hours. She said, "Have fun!". She left a pitcher of water and 3 cups on the porch swing and locked us out. Apparently, they were used to being locked out all day every Saturday and Sunday while their mom was in the house alone. I went to her neighbor's house and called my mom to come get me.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor kids and very selfish mom, someone should have called cps

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Friend’s family had this nice house with a nicely finished walkout basement with a kitchen, main area, bathroom and two bedrooms. It was furnished as if it was an apartment and the entire family including three kids lived down there full time while the four bedroom upstairs was fully furnished and they would only use the main part of the house if they were hosting company. It was bizarre going over there because we’d get in trouble if we tried to play in the big unused part of the house. When I asked him why they all lived in the basement he said his mom doesn’t want to have to clean it all the time so they just didn’t use their big house. It was so weird.

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My best friend’s parents used to make all their kids (and kids’ friends) come into their room at 9 pm and kneel at the foot of their bed to read scripture and pray with them, while they laid in bed. So weird looking back on it…my friend is now “living an alternative lifestyle” and has very minimal contact with them.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet it was the parents who chose the scriptures they wanted to be read. Many parts of the Christian Bible just don't suit being read by children to adults ...

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My high school best friend’s dad wouldn’t let her or her sisters’ friends in the house if they had “masculine” colored nail polish on. It had to be neutral (white/beige) or feminine (pink/red). No strange colors like green and yellow and absolutely no blue or black.

Well I’m an elder emo millennial and I loved my black nails but I kept nail polish remover in my car so that I could remove it before going in her house. It’s been 20+ years since I’ve seen that family and I still think of them anytime I paint my nails blue or black.

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In second grade, I went to my new friend's house and their whole house was split up by the "inside" half and the "outside" half. Inside = the hallway to the bedrooms and bathrooms, and outside = the living room and kitchen areas. The children were supposed to stay "inside" until dinnertime when we could go back "outside" to eat together. It was absolutely wack and I never went there again.


Anyway the dad ended up trying to k*ll his whole family with a flamethrower years later. And their dog had worms.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah! Must have been the dog's worms turning the dad psycho by affecting his brains. On a serious note, my home is divided like that, but withouth the rules. It's just that the "inside" ( in my case the upstairs) is not for visitors.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing I wiped my mouth on the provided cloth napkin. I thought they must be very fancy, we used paper napkins at our house. I looked up and they were all staring at me. “Those are *decorative*”. The next morning the mom pulled out her food journal and laid it open so we could see how little she had eaten. We ignored it, so she felt she had to announce it, “I’ve only had an apple and a low-fat string cheese today. [daughter], have you and your friend been pigging out?”. Yet it was cool to let us speculate as to whether the hot tub was safe to enter because her brother liked to watch, and he liked to have relations with the intake valves after he watched. I didn’t stay over again.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why am I afraid to imagine what the "relations with the intake valves" are?

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I slept over and we had to go to bed at 7pm, then in the morning his mother would not let me leave to go back home until I had a shower and dressed in identical clothing to my "Friend"
we then went to McDonalds where his mother left me to figure out my own way home.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing A friends mum did not like when a wall power socket was turned on at the switch but with nothing plugged in. According to her, it would leak electricity onto the floor.

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My friends mom would yell at us for swimming because we would make her have to do laundry and was all the towels. She would then tell us we can’t sit inside and play video games all day long. So we would leave and usually go to my house which also had video games and a pool. She would then call my mom and yell at her if we were playing video games or swimming. After like 2 of these calls my mom never would answer her calls.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh for crying out loud. My mom basically taught me to hang the towel on the line before going in the house, shower in my suit so it got rinsed off, then hang the suit on the line. The designated pool towel would get washed after a day or so, but if it was only used to dry me off out of a fresh water pool, there was zero need to wash it every time.

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My husbands mother kept the kitchen locked. You ate the meals she cooked in the dining room and that was what you got. They were very wealthy so it wasn’t a matter of food insecurity. Oh, and they were allowed one soft boiled egg for breakfast on Sunday. He left home at 17.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing This rule was enforced for their children but not their children’s friends- whenever they used the bathroom their mother made them specify if it was “tinkle” or “kerplunk”.

We were all around 10 years old, not toddlers that needed bathroom supervision. I was always embarrassed for them.

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The neighbor lady would take care of me as a kid when I'd get back from school and my parents were at work. She wouldn't let me turn on the t.v because I would "waste it" and I couldn't sit on her couches even though they were wrapped in plastic. I was on the floor once with my back against the couch and she scolded me. F*****g witch. I don't know why my mom was friends with her. If I'm ever mad at my mom I call her by that woman's name.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time to forget her, maybe? You do not owe her remembrance.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing At a friends house, I was asked to pay for dinner. I thought it was a joke, but they legitimately asked me to bring money next time if I expected to eat. They said it didn’t have to be the exact amount.

Same family, asked me to bring my own sheets blankets and pillowcases because they thought it was more sanitary than me using theirs. They were especially worried about pillowcases.

Be clear, these were nice people.

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MIL, def not a friend.

Breakfast is a full meal, and everyone eats together and at the same time. It’s 8:30 am.
Lunch is at 1:00 pm, another full meal.
Snack is at 4 pm, always includes alcohol.
Dinner is at 7 pm, another full meal.

At each meal they say grace.

MIL goes to bed as soon as she finishes eating dinner, and someone else is to clean up.

A full meal means meat, and three side dishes. One is always fruit. If any food is leftover from the previous meal, it is served at the next meal the same day, along with all the food that’s freshly prepared.

If you’re not hungry when she declares it’s food time, you have to eat anyway. And if you are hungry when she hasn’t declared it to be a meal time, you aren’t allowed to eat.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a lot of food to eat in a day. I guess it depends on how much food is at a "full meal".

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My best friend in school lived with her mom (after her parents divorced) in a massive three story home. My friend had the entire third floor as her bedroom and after 9 pm until mid-morning, we weren’t allowed down on the first floor unless it was an emergency and we could only go to the second floor to use the bathroom. As a kid, it was weird. As an adult, we alllll know why the single mom wanted us to stay upstairs lol.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing "Nobody feel up my wife."

They had a plaster casting of his wife's stomach and (large) breasts from her pregnancy on display in the living room.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a feeling this rule was made because some "kid/s" thought it was funny and the dad had enough of that bs. The OP of this one may not know why the rule was made, but it's just as likely that there's a valid reason for it.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Children could only drink warm kool-aid or water. You couldn't put it in the fridge. You couldn't use ice cubes. It had to be room temperature. 


Any child that came over had an assigned solo cup with their name in permanent marker. You had to wash and reuse the same solo cup, over and over. .

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am totally okay with the cups. It is nice to find your own cup everytime.

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Not a friend's house but a girlfriends dad's house. He was pretty well off but cheap AF. The rule was if you went into the bathroom to pee and the bowl water "was fresh" you didn't flush. I was not aware of the "yellow is mellow and brown goes down" rule till after I used the bathroom and flushed. My girlfriend heard the toilet flush and gave me the heads up. Apparently he would spot check the bathrooms and flush them when he felt they needed.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing No one was allowed to laugh at the dinner table or talk other than to ask, "Please pass the

. . ." No one was allowed to leave the table (even for a potty emergency) until the dad was done eating.

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"Nobody Feel Up My Wife”: 30 House Rules That Left Guests Grimacing Never use the decorative towels in the bathroom to dry your hands... Problem, they were the ONLY towels!

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First one to fart at the table on holidays had to do the dishes. Ok. It was my family, but of course the kids tried to get the other kids to fart so they would have to do the dishes.

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The father had to interview any friend who came over. He would make you stand in front of him and drill you like it was an interrogation. He wanted to know what your parents jobs were, if you played sports, your grades, point blank if we’d ever drank or done d***s. I’d kind of understand if we were in high school, but this was elementary age in an upper class suburb.

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A good friend of mine went thru a season where he didn’t have running water at his house so the rule in the house was that no one could come over unless they brought a couple gallons of water with them to pour into the toilet in the event that they had to poop.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lived in a place with a very limited water system before so I kinda get it.

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Ok, wasn't really a friend, but one of my kids friend's mom. She invited me over to get to know me better since our teens were bffs. I asked to use the bathroom. At this point she told me that because they were on a septic tank, NO toilet paper can go down the drain. So, no matter what business you did in the bathroom, the tp had to go into the trash can. Now, we've been a a septic as well, for years...and never had a problem. However, she was adamant that NO tp can be flushed. She had the cheapest, 1-ply, easily falls apart tp paper. So, I used the bathroom...with a full trash can, and a...smell that was just how you'd imagine it smelled. I flushed the tp paper. If I didn't have to go badly, I would have not gone at her house! Never went back there. Interestingly, I still know her oldest daughter, who told me that in their previous house, they were on city plumbing, and she was STILL not allowed to EVER flush tp. Her mom just had a really weird issue with it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still a lot of places in the world you can't flush toilet paper, and more than there should be with out toilets at all.

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Being a young man, that I had to sit while peeing in their house. And the dad stayed in the bathroom to make sure. Weird.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sitting to pee is common in many places. Boys can be very off in their aim, and it creates a mess. Sitting is a good way to prevent unnecessary, and unsanitary mess.

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The strangest rule at a friend's house was having to sing a song before dinner. Everyone participated, making it a full family performance before we could eat.

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You had to take your shoes off then walk down the plastic runner in the hallway. the main problem was that the floor was hardwood and they had the runner for carpet. so your socked feet were walking on the tops of a hundred spikes of plastic the length of the hall.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why is AnkleByter downvoted and why is this so horrible? The poster above - did they place it the wrong way down? Are they hard plastic? I've never encountered these runners so I have no idea. I mean, it's probably not Lego.... Is it worse or the same as gravel? With socks on that is doable (but it would prevent me from running, which might have been an unintented welcome side effect for some).

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know why it's downvoted so much to be honest. I am guessing that people either don't know what type of runner I was talking about, or maybe assumed I was insulting, or, something. I don't know, lol. We do have those runners, they are super soft and bendy spikes, they are not at all hard plastic. The ones I had were given to me by my parents, I used them as a kid as well. Maybe the ones others have, or ones sold where they live are hard plastic instead. The ones I am familiar with and have used since my own childhood all have bendy spikes that definitely don't hurt in the least. A lot of people where I live, most of my family, we all have them and the spikes are ALL soft and bendy, not in the least hard. In fact even the plastic part of the actual runner is a softer pliable plastic.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have those exact same runners, also on wood floor in part of our house (and yes mine are the same ones my family had when I was a kid, that's where I got them, sturdy lil buggers). The "spikes" are on the bottom and also very flexible and bend as you walk on them. They are not at all painful or even annoying. It's just to protect the floor. Even if you walked with the "spiked" side up, it still doesn't hurt because the "spikes" aren't actually painful in the least.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those are hell on autistic feet, bucko

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I stayed with people off the grid. They're obsessed with saving any type of fuel. When the moon is full we weren't allowed to use any light at night even flashlight. I wasn't even allowed to use my own light (light from my phone, or my flashlight) because it ruins they're ability to see in the dark.

Probably not strange in their world, but strange for a city boy like me.

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Once at a friend’s house I helped her set the table, and her whole family reacted with surprise and laughter at how I set the table, with the knife and spoon on the right, and fork on the left, because they always set it the opposite way.

They thought it was hilarious that I had learned it backwards….

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the European style. Knife in the dominant hand (often right), fork in the other. And no switching between bites, the cutlery stays in the respective hands unless pausing or drinking.

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Everyone had to bring a clean pair of socks to change into when going inside. I understand taking off your shoes and wearing socks inside, but not being allowed to wear the socks you have on seems weird to me.

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We had to go to bed at 9pm sharp. She lived in the country so she didn't get home off the bus until 4:30-5pm. Dinner was probably an hour. Then we got up at 8-8:30am, ate breakfast, and she immediately made me pack up, insisted I never leave anything at their home, and dropped me off at my house by 10am. I could only come over on a Friday. I didn't like being pushed out like that.

I left my hairbrush at their house once. They immediately returned it by leaving it on the front porch as we weren't home. I had other hair brushes and it could have waited until Monday on the bus or at school.

The mom didn't like me. She literally said I wasn't decent. I was 10 years old.

Edit: typo & clarity.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am trying to work out what is so bad about 10 year olds having a 9pm bedtime, and being returned home by 10am.

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It wasn’t really a rule, but when I was around 7 I was at a family friend’s house. The father told me to pass him the “thingamajig”. I asked him what he was talking about and he points to the remote control. And I said “Oh! It’s called the ‘remote’.” or something like that. And he got pissed at me and very sternly said “In this house we call it a ‘thingamajig’!!!”.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is about being a smartass and dad being fed up with the kid being a smartass/knowitall. I could see myself being annoyed about being corrected by a kid when I'm tired and just want to couchpotato. I loose words when I am tired and it's annoying to have to think sometimes. My kids can be such annoying and tiring smartasses as well. So I'd even state to them that it's now called a thingamajig. (and ofcourse they'd start to make fun of it and call everything that untill I have to laugh as well).

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I had a friend who's mother got angry if we walked to Circle K and I got a bigger soda than him. I used my own money from my mom.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some people believe that life is a competition. Shame, really...

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I'm Hispanic and we had tons of food all the time. Spent the night at friend's house, they were better off than us. Dinner was one piece of chicken and a vegetable. I was 13 and I got the vibe right away, I don't even recall what led me to that understanding that was all we were getting but I somehow knew that asking for seconds was not okay. Years later the BF of one of the siblings in the house validated what I had felt at that time. The family ate in super small portions. I still don't get it because the parents were overweight.

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I had a friend whose mom was very strict about power usage. They were far from struggling but she would still shut off the power to every room beside the kitchen and maybe things like the ac, heater, and water heater at night for some reason. At first I thought it was due to noise or something but my friend confirmed it was just something she did all the time.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huh. How do you shut off power to individual rooms? Is that an American thing?

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There was assigned seats in the living room.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I mean, that's not the worst on this list. My family also has assigned seats on the couch.

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We are not allowed to wash the dishes unless we have already spent the night at their house. I found it kind of creepy as it sounds like a curse kind of thing, I will never know.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well looks like agood way to get out of washing up to me! Never stay the night, simples!

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