30 Times People Visited Someone’s Home And Noticed Weird Traditions And Rules

I went to dinner at an older couple’s home in the late 90s. They invited my whole family. They had classical music playing. Candles lit. Little treats on silver platters. They owned a few paintings from famous artists. The whole night was like a fairy tale dream. Soft light. Plush furniture. No television in sight. The man even got my chicken plant worker country dad wrapped up in a conversation about Monet painting his wife on her death bed. I thought that’s what life should look like. Just perfect.

We say our goodbyes. It’s after 11pm. Taken our fill of cheesecake puffs and amaretto (it was what the French do so my parents were cool with it) we get into our rusty buick lesaber and pull out of the driveway. Our car slips in the ice and gets stuck in the debris on the side of the road.

My sister and I walk up the driveway to knock on the door and ask to use their phone to call our uncle with 4 wheel drive to come get us.

The couple were watching an Adam Sandler movie (happy Gilmore I think?) and wearing sweatpants already. Suddenly there was a huge tube television on a rolling cart underneath the impressionist paintings.

The man answered the door and had a Budweiser in his hand. All the candles were out and the bright lights were on. I called my uncle and just stood there. The couple said we were welcome to sit on the porch until my uncle came. They ushered us out of the house as soon as I hung the phone up. Turned off all the lights, including the porch lights.

Me and my sister slid down the driveway telling each other we would never tell our parents what we just saw.

My friends stepdad doesn’t let anybody out of their bedrooms in the morning until they’ve gotten dressed. like can’t even go to the bathroom or eat breakfast in the morning in your pajamas because it’s “sloppy.” i hate that guy.

My wife and I would occasionally have dinner with this family who had a large dog. While eating dinner they would all stick a piece of food between their own teeth and get the dog to eat it out of their mouth. All of them. It was some weird trick they taught the dog and did it every dinner. They asked us to do it too, which was even weirder.

Baby sat for a family once that had recently bought a turkey for a pet. Apparently the store told them to feed the turkey corn, but didn’t get any more specific. These people were city folks newly transplanted to our rural area, so they didn’t know dry, cracked corn for animal feed was a thing. They were feeding their turkey canned corn. I grew up on a hobby farm with a few turkeys and was so incredibly confused when they told me to give their turkey a can of corn for dinner. That was 20 years ago and I still think about it frequently lol

You need to leave the same door you came in. came in the back door? must leave the back door

Licking the plates clean after having dinner, but the plates were see through glass ones

The mom roping the living room off in the summer, rope had a keep out sign on it lol. 

Was at a sleepover at a friends house and we had a bunch of junk food, one of which was a bag of marshmallows. Friends mom comes in while we are watching a movie and takes the bag of marshmallows because and I quote " No marshmallows after midnight, they will expand in your throat and choke you while you sleep".

Thanking a picture of Jesus. I grew up with atheist parents so I thought every single Christian kid did that. It was just my friends family

I remember as a kid at my friend's house they would make openface sandwiches with white bread and a thick layer of butter covered in sugar. I had never had that before but ngl, it was tasty.