by We probably all had “rules” that we had to follow; Maybe you couldn’t watch TV until you had finished your homework or took turns to make one family computer that everyone shared. But some rules that people in their household maintained, because children were definitely a little more … unusual. Recently Redditor Humanrole9407 asked the R/Askreddit community to share their “very strange” house rules that grow up. Here were some of the weirdest.
1.‘Don’t feed friends. When friends came after school, we were not allowed to offer them snacks or drinks. My parents did not want them to ‘eat all our food’. As an adult I feed everyone and offer them food to the friends of my children. . “
2.“Everyone took an afternoon siesta. It turned out that my grandmother was narcoleptic and her children getting used to sleeping with her.”
“Jaives
3.“We were only allowed ginger beer if we were sick or on a plane. It was not common, but we would occasionally get a soft drink. Ginger Ale was special, I think. I was good at my twenty and had one day An Epiphany: I am an adult with my own money.
4.‘Not my house, but with a friend. I slept once in primary school and no one was allowed to drink anything during dinner. The mother’s reasoning was that by filling your stomach with water, too full because you don’t finish your meal. After everyone had cleaned their plate (required by the parents not to waste anything), everyone went up and went to the fridge to get a can of coke. Given a rolled up eyes from her mother. “
—Earlgrey1806
5.“We had to wear socks at all times to keep the carpet clean. Now I can’t walk barefoot without feeling a rebel.”
6.“Girls were not allowed to be with boys at the time of the month. Blades a wild lie.”
—NextSplit2683
7.“Not allowed to get the bath mat wet. What is it for?!”
8.“You can’t eat unless an adult makes the food and gives you permission to eat it. School. We also had a lot of food at home, so it was not as if we were impoverished and starving., Eating grated cheese from the bag in the middle In the night, I was just a growth spurt.
“The first time I was at a friend’s house and he just saw a box of Mac ‘n’ cheese for us, I was panicking because he had not asked for permission or was given to eat. He was to the softest Said, to say the least. “
“Yontropist
9.“Do not use the decorative towels to dry your hands; use the old towels. Also use only half a pump soap to wash your hands.”
10.“Every Thursday evening was ‘Fancy Dinner’ in which there were so many more rules for the rest of the week than dinner. For the rest of the week, the rules were simply not messy and not to be rude. But chic dinner meant dressed nicely, No curses, sitting upright, just talking about polite subjects, elbows from the table, etc. “
“Now, as an adult, I know what they were doing. They wanted us to have upward class mobility. They let us practice our ways so that we could make a good impression on chic people when needed.
I was grateful for it when I sat down for an Academic Awards dinner with some of my university professors. I was able to talk easily and felt good because I recognized a chic dinner when I saw one. As a sleeper agent who just heard my code word, I knew exactly what to do. “
—Snapwillow
11.“We couldn’t watch TV from Monday to Thursday, unless we had right A’s.”
12.“If I stay in my grandparents ‘house, my grandfather will not go to sleep until he knows that everyone is sleeping in the house. Once I woke up to use the bathroom (keep in mind that it is three or four hours’ Was in the morning), and while I walked away, he came out of nowhere and went, “What are you awake?” He never understood.
—Ya_boi_eli_
13.“We were not allowed to lie on the bed and just read or be on the phone. Every time we did it, my father would scream and spot because we are lazy or something else. When I was a teenager, I always listened to his footsteps In the hallway so that I could get up quickly enough and pretend to do something. “
14.“No closed doors, once. In honesty it started as a safety thing when we were children. When I was a toddler, I fell asleep behind a closed door and my parents thought I was dead because I didn’t respond. But when it was. It was carried out in adulthood, it was not to let us have limits or our own space.
—Severe_funny_3852
15.“The whole family shared a bath towel all week.”
16.“My mother had a strict rule that I was not allowed to eat at someone’s house. She was convinced that if I would accept an invitation for dinner, it would look like she couldn’t afford it. It just became normal no like Someone invited me for dinner.
—Brite_Butterfly
17.“The bedroom window always had to be open, even in the winter. I thought it had to be open to get air, and we would suffocate if it wasn’t open. Totally made sense.”
18.“Didn’t talk at the dining table unless you were asked a direct question.”
—Onreeatattedgirl
19.“After dinner not being able to eat in the kitchen or make something in the kitchen. After dinner was ready and the kitchen was cleaned, it was essentially closed. When I was younger, I had some friends for a sleepover. They wanted one Get snack, and I told them that the kitchen was closed.
20.“Not me, but my ex was not allowed to eat hot dogs, unless it was accompanied by a glass of orange juice because of a belief that things in the orange juice have canceled harmful nutrients in the hot dogs.”
—Miss-Indie-Cisive
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