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‘What’s a rule in your house growing up that you thought was normal but turned out to be very strange?’ – 22 incredibly eccentric regulations
12.
‘Not me but my ex: Not allowed to eat hotdogs unless it is accompanied by a glass of orange juice, because of a belief that things in the orange juice cancelled out harmful nutritional things in the hotdogs.’
–Miss-Indie-Cisive
13.
‘Every clock in each room of the house was set ahead or behind to either spur action or to make it seem like you had more time.’
–eliota1
14.
‘If the door is closed it’s in use, simple. Never locked a bathroom door on a house I have lived in ever.’
–West_Guarantee284
15.
‘Rule at girlfriend’s house: Men sit on the toilet when peeing to avoid creating an ’embarrassing noise’.’
–decorama
16.
‘We weren’t allowed to say ‘fart’. We instead had to say ‘root toot’.’
–jake03583
17.
‘Dad was the controller of the TV at all times he was home. We only ever watched 2 channels, the others were terrible (there were only four channels back then, UK, 1980’s).
‘There was only one TV in the house, we watched what was on it, or did something else. Also, on Sundays, we either did only quiet activities, or played outside. We weren’t religious at all, it was just quiet day.’
–BlackberryNice1270
18.
‘We were not allowed to have a toaster because my step dad thought it would burn the house down. I hid it under my bed like contraband and made toast secretly because toast is fucking delicious.’
–OgreWithLayers
19.
‘Four sheets of toilet paper is enough… But sometimes it wasn’t.’
–PugPianist
20.
‘We always had dinner straight away after parents got home. Like 5pm. After moving away and becoming an adult, all my friends found that weird. Everyone eats late.’
–bnrdancer
21.
‘We didn’t roll our socks. Instead, we had a ‘sock place’, which was a laundry basket full of mismatched socks from the whole family, and when we went to get our socks we had to search the sock place for our socks. No idea why.’
–ActualLiteralHobbit
22.
‘Indoor clothes and outdoor clothes. The moment we got home from being outside (school, play, etc), we had to change into our ‘indoor-only’ clothes. When friends would visit and they didn’t bring their own clothes, they had to wear something of mine.’
–sawa-bawa
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