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Recently, u/Similar_Race_3031 asked r/AskReddit, "What’s the astir ridiculous 'house rule' you’ve ever had to travel erstwhile staying astatine idiosyncratic else’s place?"
1. "You could not poop astatine their house. If you had to past you had to spell home, but if you had to pee past it was fine... His dada screamed astatine 1 of our friends erstwhile we were successful 4th people for having to spell unexpectedly and his location was similar a 10 infinitesimal thrust away..."
2. "I had a person whose begetter kept the Super Nintendo controllers successful sandwich bags attached by twist-ties astir the cord. All the remotes were successful ample Ziploc bags. You could property the buttons done the bag, but it was conscionable weird. So thing handheld and physics was fundamentally successful a makeshift condom."
3. "No opening the windows. Ever. They bred dogs and you tin conscionable ideate however that location smelled."
4. "Friends dada was a atomic engineer, truthful they were not broke. They mandated 1 azygous 4 ounce solid of orangish foodstuff for breakfast, nary different drinks, nary refills."
5. "When I was a kid, I visited a person whose parent banned america from having a favourite oregon a slightest favourite colour pencil. She thought that beardown preferences and opinions would ruin her kid's vibe. Naturally, her kid was the astir opinionated six-year-old successful my archetypal people class."
6. "'You person to devour everything connected your sheet and you person to beryllium determination until you do'. I was not hungry, I precise politely said I didn't privation immoderate food, I didn't similar thing they were serving... Got punished for not eating acold Kraft macaroni and tuna."
7. "I wasn't allowed to spell to the bath aft I went to bed. The bath was attached to the parent's country and they didn't privation maine to aftermath them up, I guess. I ended up peeing successful the works successful the surviving room."
8. "'You can't usage the fridge aft 10pm, it wakes the cat.' I'm not adjacent joking."
9. "No drinks with dinner. You could person a solid of h2o after... but not during the meal. Never did fig retired the crushed for that one."
10. "The room was purely decorative and couldn't beryllium used. No sound was to beryllium made aft six pm. Everyone brought their ain idiosyncratic toilet insubstantial to the bath – the rotation connected the partition was the homeowners' and was not to beryllium used. Oh, and wage nary attraction to the antheral homeowner wandering astir naked. He does that. My person was renting a country there. I visited for a mates nights and boy, I've ne'er been happier to get connected a formation home. If I'd known what I was getting into I would person shelled retired for a hotel, adjacent with the metropolis prices successful my aboriginal 20s."
11. "My spouse utilized to spell to crippled nights arsenic a friend's spot and the woman made them each pee outside. He would ever marque definite to usage the bath earlier helium near due to the fact that helium ne'er felt comfy peeing successful their backyard. Everyone besides made definite to poop earlier going implicit there. If they had to poo, they had to permission aboriginal oregon spell location momentarily oregon possibly hide it? I person nary thought really."
12. "Not a location rule, but was staying with gf's sister and hubby successful their location during the pandemic, and her hubby had an contented with maine wishing him bully morning. He told his woman who told her sister who thought it was ridiculous, but I was blessed to disregard him more."
13. "When I was successful mediate school, my neighbour invited maine and her different person to slumber over. Her parent allowed it, contempt having a occupation interrogation the adjacent day. Well, of course, we were giggling and talking and woke her parent up (it was a tiny apartment). Her parent perfectly flipped her lid and forced each 3 of america to constitute lines arsenic punishment.
"Like 'I volition not beryllium loud' 100 times oregon thing similar that. I had ne'er really seen that punishment extracurricular of TV and movies. Very unusual 'house rule.' Being a meek radical pleaser child, I felt ace unspeakable and finished successful grounds time. Told my ma erstwhile I got location and she was upset that the parent had taken it upon herself to punish maine – for a occupation of her ain creation, nary less."
14. "I was sleeping implicit and I (overweight) wasn’t allowed to slumber connected their sofa due to the fact that I 'would decidedly permission a imperishable dent successful it' – truthful I had to slumber connected the carpet."
15. "You had to denote if you had to poop and the rooms didn't person doors, they had those weird beads. This was the aforesaid household."
16. "Don't usage the airy switches aft 10pm due to the fact that the click sound wakes up others."
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17. "My husband's best friend erstwhile helium was younger had a location rule: guests bathe first, past eldest kid, adjacent eldest, etc. Oh, they shared bath water. So the impermanent oregon eldest got the cleanable bath and everyone other bathed successful the aforesaid water. No, I'm not joking."
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