To ask what the weirdest thing you experienced or saw at someone else's house when you were a child?

Hear

@Bowerbird5 you can here funnelwebs puffing?

Not me but my daughter who went to tea at her friends house when she was about 11. After eating, they carried the plates to the toilet where they scraped the food off into the toilet before taking them back to the kitchen to wash!

Oh and suggesting they both strip off and have a jacuzzi bath together as that's what she (the mother) does with her friends.

Daughter didnt go back again. A few years ago (about 6 years later) the father got outed as a paedophile and sent to jail for abusing a young girl. Eek!!

@HaggardMumofToddler me too!!!

Forgot to add that was in the 90s/early 2000s

We were definitely the weird family, loads of us in a tiny house, no tv usually, a couple of times we had a tv for a while but we rarely had it on unless we knew there was a programme we wanted to watch. No carpets in the house. Huge gardens with loads of random stuff in them, caravans and bits of random vehicles and sheds made out of random stuff. Had a pony living in the garden for a while. No doors inside the house apart from bedrooms and bathroom. Parents slept in the living room. As a teenager if I wanted friends for sleepovers we had to camp in the garden. My dad didn’t work but also didn’t do anything round the house or for any of us kids. My mum did literally everything. My mum was (still is) very warm and welcoming and we frequently had random people staying with us for weeks on end. My mum frequently rearranged all the furniture, the house was very cluttered and chaotic. We grew a lot of our own veg and always had home cooked meals, rarely had processed food. Very rarely had a dining table but ate all meals together sat around on the floor/sofa. Never had a microwave which lots of people found odd! In my mind my best friend was the odd one, she had a tv in her room, a huge, neat, modern house, and when I stayed for tea we had pizza and chips! Her parents both worked, her ponies lived in a stables down the road and not her garden, and I could sleep over in a guest bed instead of sharing her bed!

Not weird but it was just funny for me really. Also didn't have a clue what their bidet was for and had hysterics when told it was for washing bottoms!

When I was about 10 I was invited to sleep over at a friend's house. After tea, friend's mum gave us both a glass of milk. I told her I didnt like milk and asked for a glass of water instead. She refused and insisted I had to drink the milk, saying my friend had a glass of milk every night after tea and every morning before breakfast and that as I was staying over I had to do the same. I repeated that I didnt like milk and then we went off to play. Later when getting ready for bed, friend's mum came upstairs with the glass of milk and told me I had to drink it before I could go to bed and reminded me I would have to drink one before breakfast in the morning. I absolutely despised milk and the thought of having to drink it made me feel ill so I again told her I didnt like it. We went back and forth for a few minutes her insisting and me refusing before she eventually rang my mum to come collect me.

I remember in the 80s being invited to a friend's house when I was 11, and their house was incredibly posh. We had burger and chips for dinner around a huge, beautifully laid table for 12, just me the girl and her parents. I remember being shocked because they ate their burger with a knife and fork. It was the first time I felt quite common as they looked really disapproving when I picked mine up with my hands!

I went into my friend's house when I was about 11? There was cardboard all over the floor, not as carpet or lino, just flattened cardboard boxes. You had to push them out of the way to open any doors. In the kitchen was a coffee table with a butter dish left out, with an opened loaf of bread and a jar of jam. No problem, you might think, but we were in Australia and the butter was like a puddle and the bread was mouldy. She made a jam sandwich, picking the mould off and slopping minging runny butter and jam on the bread. There was a knife lying on the floor that she picked up, wiped on her jumper and used that. There was cups and plates lying about covered in God knows what, she tipped whatever crap was on the plate onto the floor and used that plate. The dogs ate the crap from the floor.
She had a pet mouse which escaped, never found it (amongst that debris that's no surprise!)
My mum was relatively tidy round the house, so going into a house that was so disgusting was quite an eye opener. Very odd.

This thread is absolutely jaw-dropping! I knew people were weird, but if even half these posts are true...?! My own contribution is tame in comparison - I remember when I was 10 or so I came downstairs at a friends house, after bedtime, to get a drink of water, and caught her parents settled in front of teletubbies.

A group of us stayed at my friends house must of been around 11/12 and her mum put us all in this attic/storage room as she didn’t want downstairs a mess, then came up at 7pm and made us all lay down to go to sleep! This was perfectly normal to our friend, she absolutely screamed at me for going to the toilet at 10pm because I had my chance before getting in bed! I never ever stayed there again, then the next day her dad in the front room kept driving this RC car into our feet and if we moved them found it hilarious we were “scared” I’m not going to lie as an adult now I can see why the friend I had then is now very very odd.

My mum moved towns as a child but kept in touch with one school friend. When I was around 11 I went to stay with this friend without my parents (which is a bit weird in itself - I had only met her once before, but she was lovely and I guess it was seen as a holiday for me and a break for my parents). She lived with DH and toddler DS. Not long after I arrived her DH said that I was lucky he was wearing clothes because he usually wore nothing at home (why would you tell an 11 year old that?). One morning I was in bed and DS came charging into 'my' room to see me... closely followed by my mum's friend who was totally naked! My own parents were very much always clothed so this seemed very odd to me. Nothing untoward happened, but it made me feel very uncomfortable.

I also remember going for tea with my best friend at the time (aged around 12) and her dad taking the piss out of my weight (I was a chubby preteen and very sensitive about it) - he'd say things like "You're a big girl aren't you!" and "Oh I'm not sure if we've got enough food in the house to feed you!" No wonder I've struggled with eating related issues all of my adult life! What a pillock!

At age eleven a new girl moved to our school from another part of the country...she kept telling everyone she had a famous sister (this part turned out to be true) so when I got invited round there I was super excited to see how showbiz people lived. Except...the sister didn’t live with her and they lived in a grotty bed sit type place. Then it got really weird to the point where I sometimes wonder if I dreamt it - mum had some rolls of wallpaper she needed hanging so she shut me and this other girl in the bathroom with a tub of wallpaper paste and told us to hang it! Even as I type this I know it sounds crazy but I swear it happened! She wouldn’t let us have dinner until we had finish3d the wall over the bath and when I went downstairs I nearly vomited as it was boil in the bag fish in parsley sauce and she got really cross because I was so reluctant to eat it but didn’t want to appear rude. Needless to say I never went back! In hindsight it is actually quite sad as I think mum was eventually sectioned and daughter attempted suicide, but it was the weirdest play date of my life and I always thought of it whenever I saw the sister on TV...

A disturbed Funnel Web spider. If I hadn’t heard it puffing and turned to look to see what it was I wouldn’t be hear to tell the tale. It was up ready to strike as I pulled my hand away. I was about 10 or 11. It was in the aviary which we were helping clean out.

This isn’t weird as such, it was just so different from what I was used to, as my parents never drank in the house apart from Christmas and then not a great deal.
My friend’s Dad was a teacher and he came home one evening, in a smart 3 piece suit, dumped his briefcase, grunted hello and went straight for the drinks cabinet, where he poured a generous G&T. I remember asking my friend if he was ok and she looked surprised and said of course he was, it was just what he did every day when he came home.

Not weird really, just a sign of how times have changed since the mid 70’s. I used to go and stay with a friend who lived in a mountainy farm. There was no running water so we would walk along the road to a spring well and carry back buckets. For having a poo there was a bucket in the ‘back kitchen’ (a lean to) and for a wee you went outside. The older boys had one bedroom and the younger son and my friend shared a single bed in a room with their parents. When I stayed, I shared the bed and the brother bunked in with the older boys. Downstairs there was a ‘good room’ with Lino on the floor and some chairs, maybe a sideboard or something. It was rarely used and they lived in the kitchen. When my friend came to my house my mum would put all her clothes in the washing machine on the first night!

i’ll just add to this that nobody ever came to my house. my parents were wealthy alcoholics and considered most of my friends to be ‘scum’ who weren’t worthy of our glorious surroundings.

i was a suicidal 10 year old, and an alcoholic myself by 13. some of these stories are hilarious, some are heartbreaking.

As a teenager, at a party, I had a male friends mum say to me ‘want to see something fun?’ At which point she lead me and another girl to a locked door... took a key out of her pocket and took us into what was essentially, a ‘play’ room.

I was epseven or eight and saw my friends husband get very close (very close) to his female friend in the office within the house while his wife (my mums friend) was in the kitchen. The father saw me and gave me some amazing pens and the most amazing pencil sharper. It was a bic pen with a lid which i used the sharper on so ruined it. Mum mentioned it about ten years ago that they split due his affairs... bought be straight back to what i saw. Still got the pen with the ruined lid from the 1980s....(Norfolk area)

I’m beginning to think that we were the weird ones... although my friends mum was a nasty horrible woman (well she was always rude to me). I think some adults really can’t be bothered with other people’s kids can they?

Went to a friend's birthday party when I was about seven. All the kids had been herded into another room on the pretext of playing a game while I went for a quick toilet visit.

I realised something was happening in the back room so had a little peer and got caught by friend's DF. He'd hired a magician as a surprise but seriously you'd have thought I'd been caught stealing state secrets. He had such a go at me and it was a massive shock because he'd always played Mr church-going-love-your-neighbour-nice guy until then. Never saw him in the same light after that.

Door handles so high only adults could open them...

I punch up in a garden between adult men ... and one man picked up a tv Ariel and hit the other with it ... police arrived ... I was 10 years old and totally fascinated ! ... horrified now

We also weren’t allowed to watch Grange Hill