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

RavenLG - I think plenty of people have had to share a room with their mother. I don't think it's that weird.

I don't think the parents in your second anecdote were "lovely". If some parents had allowed my dd to smoke weed in their house at 14 I'd have gone round and stuffed it where the sun don't shine...

I was amazed at my friend's house when we would all sit down to tea, including the dad and siblings, cooked by the mum, but she didn't have any and just stood and watched us as she was slimming. This happened every time.

Same family never let their kids go to the ice cream van, or touch their piano. They were such miserable twats. (They weren't at all poor)

We had neighbours we used to play with who had a huge house, and one of the massive bedrooms was just a dump for rubbish. They just threw any kind of old crap in, literally threw it. One time a tricycle had broken and the dad opened the door of this room and hurled it in, and it landed on top of an enormous pile of junk about 10 feet high.

It also blew my mind when some friends had their own keys and called their parents by their first names - I thought it was fabulous but actually they were quite neglected looking back.

Nothing too weird - friends house only her mum was allowed to flush the loo so you had to tell her if youd used the toilet

I remember going to an 'empty' ,this is when the parents were out at about age 13,and someone found a massive big black vibrator in the parents bedroom

Age 11 went to a party at a girls housenher dad was a compnay director and super wealthy, (owned a Porsche for the "weekend car".)
The house was a tip. Empty take away boxes whipped cream everywhere. Clothes on the floor. And they were allowed to watch "adult" films.

At about 9/10 my friend told me her dad would take her blankets off her when she was naughty as a punishment. I was terrified to sleep over at her house once, I silently cried myself to sleep as I was too scared to ask to go home.

Another friend used to share a bedroom with her mam which I thought was so weird. It was a single mum house hold, and she had an older brother and sister (twins) who we're 18ish when we we're 10 it was the easiest room solution without having to move house. They had single beds side by side and we used to jump from one to the other.

At 14/15 a friends parents house, they we're lovely. They had a sofa in the kitchen which I thought was cool, let us write on this one wall in the kitchen. They would let us smoke weed and drink in the house.

I went to a friends house, ages around 8.

Her mum was clearly drunk and slurring about some bracelet that she found that wasnt hers.

The dad came home and she went berserk, saying she had proof he had been cheating and what a horrible bastard he was.

The dad packed his stuff got on his bike and left as my friend and her younger sister howled in the drive for their daddy to come back.

It was horrendous and I had no idea what i was supposed to do but my heart breaks for them all everytime I remember it.

Oh just remembered another one! A friends uncle had a bicycle tyre hanging up in his shed and he used to put old teabags in there to dry out and then reuse! Fortunately I was never a tea drinker in those days.

A CATCAKE!

whatisthisfuckery I am doing mutley laugh round my pasta at the image of a mans arse chewing suppositories. Cant stop laughing

My friend's fridge had a padlock on. Once we picked it and make cheese toasties.. Got caught wagging and fridge raiding when her sm found bits of cheese under the table!!

I went to a wedding once that was held at the bride's parents house, big house in a nice village, parents wealthy and very good jobs. They had a marquee in the garden and there was no expenses spared. You had to go into the house to use the toilet-the house was absolutely filthy, they hadn't bothered to clean anything up, the downstairs toilet had the washing hanging up in it including the mum's bras and pants!

A portrait of Stalin

I bet they called their hamster Gogol . . .

Went over for a new years party at a friend's who was house sitting for other friends... the kids (my friends) showed us photo albums which they had found on the bookshelves, with pics of the family who owned the place. Except in all the family photos, everyone was naked. V weird. No one told the adults.

When I was a teenager I went to a friends house. Her father was a baker who made celebration cakes at home. When I walked into their front room there was a cake on top of the television( they were enormous in those days) which had been placed there to allow the marzipan to harden before icing BUT sat on top of the cake was a cat! Nobody batted an eyelid. 🤮

Being given the option of cold or hot baked beans.What sort of monster eats them cold?!

You've just reminded me of a friend I had at Primary school who used to bring in cold baked bean sandwiches for lunch. Other than that she was so sweet. Unfortunately her dad was in the RAF so she didn't stay at the school long.

This thread is fantastic, really has made me laugh.

I remember my mated dad used to sit and eat his dinner without his top on so he didn't mess up his top. He was a lovely man too but just very eccentric.

My neighbours wouldn’t let me use their loo at all and had naked photos of them all over the house

Loving this thread

They turned the food into a face I was taught to eat everything no matter what my mom threw on the plate ,(burnt offerings were a regular occurrence) I was confused how do you eat a face

PrincessHoneysuckle

My daughter is that monster. She will chug a can of tomato soup COLD.

I had a friend at primary school whose dad had A Chair in their living room. Some kind of leather recliner I think.

No one was allowed to sit in The Chair, even if the dad wasn't in. One time, when I was about 7, I sat in it. Just because, I think. The entire rest of the family went all quiet and panicked-looking. The mood was horrible for the rest of the afternoon. When the dad came home about two hours later, the first thing my friend's mum said to him was, 'Plausible sat in your chair.' Then she apologised to him, as though something truly terrible had happened. He went all quiet and purple and angry and I was quickly bundled off home. My friend stopped speaking to me at school after that.

Oh my! Loads of memories to recount on this one! I was grateful for my painfully ordinary upbringing.

1. A friend from school getting smacked over and over again by her father for being “rude” (I can’t remember what she said to him but looking back the degree to which she was being smacked was wholly abusive). I was occasionally smacked as a child (nearly everyone was back then) but I’d never seen anything like this. It happened in front of me as if I wasn’t there.

1. When I was about 10 an American family lived down the road and I used to play with the eldest son who was a year younger than me. He had a 4 year old sister and a 2 year old brother. Their house was a 4 bedroom detached house but the three kids all slept in the same bedroom while the parents had another and there were two spare rooms. More bizarrely, the house had a huge lounge that was just packed with junk while the (much smaller) dining room was used as both a lounge and a dining room. Very odd.

1. Another friend from school had parents with a 1930s obsession and when she got home from school she was required to go and get changed into 1930s clothes. There was no TV in the house, only an old Radiogram and all her books and toys were from that era. All the decor, phone, appliances etc were vintage. The parents were nice but a bit formal.

1. One friend lived with her father and grandmother. When I went round to play (on at least six occasions), the grandmother did everything (cooking the tea, interacting with us etc) while the father was always sitting in an armchair in the lounge, smoking and watching television. I don’t think I ever saw him stand up on any of the occasions I was there.

There were also houses that were always a mess and houses that were like show
homes.

I learned early on that people are interesting!

When l was 18 and at art college studying window dressing (as it was called then), we had 2 older (in their mid 30s, we thought they were ancient!) ladies on our course.
We were doing a project and one of them said she was going to go home to collect some of her 'evening wear'. She invited two of the girls to go with her.
Apparently she lived on a very nice estate (think premier division footballer types) where the houses cost a fortune. Both she and her husband had new cars. The girls said that the house was really nice downstairs, decent carpets, new big tv etc, but when they went upstairs to help her choose which clothes she was going to take, there were no carpets or rugs in the bedrooms (the bedroom doors were open), just bare floorboards. There wasn't much in the way of furniture, there were clothes on the floor and on the beds and on hangers on the back of the door.
The bits of the house that visitors would see were almost opulent, they had two very nice cars, but the bedrooms were extremely basic to say the least. They said it looked very much like 'keeping up with the Joneses'.
My mother had some strange ideas too. She had a clock on the kitchen wall which someone had brought back from holiday. lt was a Dutch style tile which had been made into clock. She had it on the wall still in the plastic box it came in. "To keep the dust off it" as she said.
Also, she had cream leather effect kitchen worktops. Which she kept covered with newspaper. My cousin once asked me why, and when l said that my mother said it "kept them clean" we both agreed that they'd get dirtier than usual with the ink from the newsprint! She also kept used tea bags on the worktop in a yogurt pot til they dried, so they wouldn't stain the bin....