" For about six month , the three boy / men in the house were not provide to pee in the toilet . "
Each household has its own rules. But sometimes, growing up, there were rules that we now just don’t understand. Well,u/poothhippersrecently askedr/AskReddit, “What’s the weirdest rule you had to follow at your childhood home?” Here are some of the wildest responses:
1.“I wasn’t allowed to put sugar in my tea because my mum told me that when you go to prison they don’t let you have sugar, so it will makes prison that much harder.”
" 1 ) Thanks for having so much faith in me mum .
2 ) I ’m pretty sure you are allowed dough for your afternoon tea in prison . "
– u / Embarrassed_Big_1361
2.“We weren’t allowed to talk during meals. My parents said it was to teach us discipline, but it just made dinners really awkward.”
– u / google_face
3.“Was actually a friend not me. Basically at his house, him and his brother were allowed in only three rooms: their bedrooms and the bathroom. The kitchen, living room and conservatory were completely off limits. If they wanted water they had to ask and a parent would bring a glass from the kitchen. The conservatory was used for family meals but apparently a lot of the time they just gave the kids food on plates to eat in their room. It really weirded me out as a kid when I went round.”
" I would be recognise by the parent , they would escort me to my mates sleeping accommodation , then shut down the door behind me . When it was time to leave my mate had to call for his parents to then escort me out . No approximation why they had this convention . The mum did n’t act upon and literally sat at home all day every mean solar day just chain smoke in the living room . "
– u / MrR0undabout
4.“I wasn’t allowed to do anything near a window. My mom was convinced that our neighbours were always watching us so I had to crouch down whenever I went by a window.”
– uracil / Formal - Distance-4562
5.“We weren’t allowed to chew gum after 4:30 because we wouldn’t be ‘getting enough use out of it’ before we had dinner at 6:00.”
– u / SuLiaodai
6.“My parents never let me look at people kissing on TV when I was a kid. Not sure what they were trying to teach me but I guess I should thank them for my adult awkwardness in PDA situations.”
– uracil / CaterpillarSea5577
7.“No one in my house was allowed to go outside if it was raining, my mum believed it would make us sick immediately no matter what.”
– atomic number 92 / Less_Neighborhood281
8.“Not allowed to say ‘I hate’ anything. I hated mustard. I had to say I liked mustard but didn’t prefer it.”
– u / ZOMBIE91KILLER
9.“We were not allowed to cut through the flowerbed out front to get to the sidewalk. The rule is perfectly fine, it was just that my mom convinced her young children that a family of dead people would grab your ankles and pull you into the ground for eternity if you set foot in the garden. It absolutely terrified me until I was old enough to know better.”
– u / QuadAmericano2
10.“I wasn’t allowed to watch mice-centric movies (The Rescuers,American Tail) because my mom said ‘our cat finds them offensive.'”
– u / Comfortable - Try-6413
11.“If I stepped outside in my socks, even right outside the door for two seconds, the socks were considered dirty and I wasn’t allowed back inside unless I was barefoot. Meanwhile, shoes could be worn in the house no problem.”
– u / Candid - Researcher866
12.“When hanging clothes on the line, the pegs needed to be colour coordinated with the clothes.”
– atomic number 92 / Hungover - Owl
13.“We weren’t allowed to look directly at the microwave when it was running.”
– uranium / BAT123456789
14.“We never went out through the front door. Like, ever.”
– uracil / Inevitable_Spell5775
15.“My mother was in a constant war with the deer that always ate her garden and was willing to try every trick she could find to keep them away from her beloved plants. One article she read said that the smell of human urine deters deer. So, for about six months, the three boys/men in the house were not allowed to pee in the toilet.”
" We had to go outside and pee somewhere around the perimeter of her garden . At dark , we had to pee in jugs next to the throne so she could disperse it around her garden the next day . It was n’t as successful as she hoped . The final answer was an eight foot grandiloquent fence around the intact garden a few years later . "
– u / Dragnil
16.“We had a whole room, living room, that we couldn’t enter unless we had company.”
– uranium / constructiongirl54
H/T tou/poothhippersandr/AskRedditfor having the discussion!
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