19 things people thought were normal because their families did them

11.

Combo of my mother and father's quirks: my mom felt very strongly there should be no visible tv in the living room, and my father loves things to be "just so", so after every movie he wld put the whole tv, remote, & cords back into factory packaging. "Just like new!" he would say

— Lynn(e) (@betteronpaper1) September 7, 2020

12.

In our family, the boys got the leg meat from chickens and the girls got the breast pieces. I didn't realise this was weird until my boyfriend reached for a breast piece of chicken and my family gasped at his audacity.

— Crafty Femme (@anwyn) September 7, 2020

13.

My parents taught us there were “no bad words, only bad timing,” and curse words were reserved for playing video games and other at-home frustrations, not school or grandma’s house. As such, we called cursing “Nintendo language.”

— Molly Kleinman, Ph.D. 🚲🚌📚🌈 (@mollyali) September 7, 2020

14.

Neither parent knew any lullabies, so they sang me jingles to bed. Definitely thought that everyone had fond memories of the Brill cream, Green Giant, Mr. Clean, and Chiquita Banana songs. Among many others.

— Claire Gunter (@underceg) September 7, 2020

15.

My father invented characters a lot, like Mister Manners who lived under the kitchen table and would nibble at us if we didn’t have good table manners?

— Zoe Whittall (@zoewhittall) September 8, 2020

16.

My dad told my brother and I we had a brother and sister named Peter and Suzie but they were bad so they had to live under the house. I freaked out when we moved when I was 5 and didn’t take them. Weird to realize this was not a typical threat to get your kids to behave

— this fraudulent christmas prince (@thexmasprince) September 7, 2020

17.

have a cat regularly sit on the breakfast table and describe it as a “tableau vivant” because that was easier than convincing this particular cat to get down from the table

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) September 8, 2020

18.

Yelling “I need backup!” to the whole house when you are on the toilet and out of toilet paper 😂😂

— Kate Morgan (@katie_thelady) September 8, 2020

19.

my parents took zero interest in my grades or academic performance — not in a negligent way but in a respectful "that's your personal business" way — and it took me a long time to stop seeing it as egregiously controlling when other kids' parents, like, made them do homework

— Frankie Thomas (@frankie_jay_tho) September 7, 2020

Finally – this is definitely not covid-safe.

The first piece of birthday cake has to be cut by the birthday person. The moment the knife hits the plate on the first cut, that person makes a wish and SCREAMS AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS. If you do not scream, or if it's not the best you can do, your wish will not come true. https://t.co/dxRwTYpaWf

— e-guillotine ✨ (@_jbfitz) September 8, 2020

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