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People have been sharing the weirdest rules their parents used to make them follow – 17 most bizarre boundaries
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‘All steak had to be WELL DONE. I didn’t know anything less than well done existed until I went to college. Now, I take my steak medium.’
-PointyCirclesHurt
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‘My parents would check my and my brother’s teeth for ‘sugar bugs’ every night after we brushed our teeth, before we got in bed. If they thought we were trying to skip brushing our teeth, they would tell us they could see the sugar bugs and would make us go brush again.
‘My brother and I were so convinced these sugar bugs were real, we would constantly ask when we’d be able to see them. My parents always told us only people 13 and older could see them, but by the time we got to be 13, we had completely forgotten about the sugar bugs in our teeth.’
-Yamagami_Shinryu
12.
‘We couldn’t laugh at the table. We were immediately dismissed to our rooms’
-OperationSlutPhase
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‘My dad used to tell us that we weren’t allowed to touch the painted parts of the car because it would mess it up. Only touch the handles. This was so completely ingrained in me that even as an adult I thought that car paint was somehow easily ruined. It wasn’t until working in the automotive industry that I realized that, in fact, it’s quite durable and, you know, made to be on the road.’
-filthyantagonist
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‘Soft drinks are adult drinks.
‘Imagine my horror when I went to a birthday party in kindergarten and the Mom started to serve soft drinks to us – 5 year olds! Being the rule follower that I was, I said that I wasn’t allowed to drink it because it was an adult drink. The mom convinced me that my parents would be okay if I had a glass. I remember being very upset with my parents after the party because I was so embarrassed.’
-Virtual_Cut6952
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‘When we were little and the Avon Lady would come knocking on our door, my mom would tell us to be very quiet and to not make a noise because it’s the mean Avon Lady and she has a gun. Lol.
‘We totally believed her, and it wasn’t until I was in the 8th grade that we moved, and my little sister’s friend’s dad would sell Avon at swap meets. We asked if he had a gun, and her friend looked so confused. Lol. We figured then that my mom was just telling us a story to make sure we were quiet so she didn’t have to open the door and deal with the Avon Lady.
‘It is still one of the silliest memories of my childhood, and up until my mom passed away 4 years ago, we would give her such a hard time for it. Her response was always “well it got you to be quiet, and she always went away.”
I don’t know if it’s really a rule, but maybe it was. We were never to answer the door to those women.
‘I miss my mom so much.’
-Acceptable-Lime-868
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‘Our dogs were allowed on the couch but we weren’t until my dad moved out when I was almost 16. Lots of other crazy shit too ofc but that one is kinda funny.’
-DisembodiedTraveler
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‘You have to “say hello” to the plants. Every morning, greet the houseplants.’
-Captain_donutt
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