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

Grange Hill, Home and Away and Eastenders were all banned in my house!

My friend's dad used to go up the stairs on all fours (habit from climbing ladders when he was in the navy, I think!).

When I was 12 I went to a NYE party at my friends' house with some other 12 and 13 y/o girls. At midnight her dad insisted on coming round and kissing us all one by one on the lips. I was massively uncomfortable as even my own parents didn't kiss me on the lips but he said it was tradition and his wife and own daughters didn't object so I went along with it. About 10 years later he was arrested and imprisoned for soliciting sex with a minor.

A schoolfriend's bathroom suite at home was dark brown. Though she probably thought ours was weird being whisper pink.

When I was about 8, (think 1982) in Spain a family from Ecuador came to the neighbourhood. To us they were super exotic. They owned the bar below our flats. So, we became friends with the daughter and went into the bar. They had a latin american taste in decor. On a shelf a head of an indian doll caught our eye, with its long black hair. I took it down and as we looked closer at it we realised the eyelids were stuck together and the lips were sewn together! It just fell out of my hands and we ran from the place right home screaming they had a decapitated head in the bar! NO one believed us. (Some time later it transpired it was one of those human shrunken heads, it was one of my friend's mother's heirlooms from times gone by!).

At 12 I was invited to sleep over at a friend's house. He explained that his dad worked late every night hence he was not home.

I thought his dad was having an affair with his secretary, just like the characters on Dallas the soap opera.

4 years later his dad came clean and divorce ensued. My friend was gutted his dad lied to him all that time.

Stabilos Grange Hill was banned in our house as well. I’m not sure why, something to do with the fact that it was London and therefore common, or somet. My parents were somewhat odd, and hypocrites considering they’re very working class Black Country folk.

Yeah this really puts that 'good old days' gobshite into perspective.

I hated Tiswas @SaskiaRembrandt. Far more enjoyed the orderliness of Noel's swap shop. Was old before my time I think

My best friend lived with her parents and great uncle, I used to stay over most Friday nights. Her parents would go to the pub and her uncle would look after us, he would leave us to our own devices in the music room while he was in his bedroom on the third floor and it's only with the benefit of hindsight that I realised that his lady friend and he were probably leaving us to play the piano and sing while they were enjoying sexy times

I was once invited to a schoolfriends house for tea after school (this would be late 70's approx). Mum was lovely and friendly and made a nice meal. When the dad arrived home, the whole atmosphere changed. As a small child, I can only describe it as "fear". Everybody went quiet, everybody tiptoed around, the Mum looked utterly terrified. He was a very intimidating character. This man was quite high up in the police and was frequently mentioned on TV in high profile cases. I have never been so glad to get home. I felt unsafe. The friend's parents did actually divorce but as an adult I can now see it was most definitely a DV situation. I have no idea what happened to the friend, she went to a different secondary school to me. Horrible situation.

I remember going to my best friend at schools house and realising that her parents actually liked each other and slept in the same room. It was a bit of a lightbulb moment

Went to a friend's house at around 14 and they were nudists (i guess) and there was a family picture of them naked and quite a few individual naked pics dotted around the house

When i was about 16 i went to a friend's house in London and arrived before he got there, but his dad was home. Went inside and say and talked about movies and he suggested we have a spliff. I declined as suspected it was a trap

At a house party when i was about 16 my mates mum walked in when i was rolling a spliff and sat and smoked it with us

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In fairness to the friends dad @SillyUnMurphy my dad used to switch radio channels when Brick in the walk came on!

I wasn't allowed to watch Tiswas; I still feel slightly aggrieved.

Oh, and we always use to eat the bird food in the garden!!!

Going to a friends house for tea after school and finding Grange Hill was banned in their house!

My friend wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill either! Although (bizarrely) they were allowed to watch Neighbours and Home and Away. The kids also weren't allowed to cross the road (we were 10!)

I was 4 or 5 and went to a friends house.
The friends mum used to tell me that the friends Dad ate little children up for his tea.
She used to get me absolutely petrified about the dad getting in from work.
What a strange thing for an adult to do to a 4 year old?

Rather disappointingly I suppose we are all more uniform nowadays. Of course the tales of abusive homes are awful, but on a lighter note modern communications have contributed to the disappearance of people's little peccadilloes which they had no idea were odd.

Going to a friends house for tea after school and finding Grange Hill was banned in their house!

@whatisthisfuckery I'm at work and I can't stop laughing at that last sentence 😂

I remember staying at a new friend's house. She asked did I want to stay up til 11pm.
To see her ddogs get fed!
Their one meal a day was just before her dps went to bed.
I was quite upset the poor ddogs had to wait all day for a meal.
They also had stuffed wildlife on the walls. Stags, fur pelts and stuff.
Her df was very shouty.
Still felt more sorry for ddogs than dfriend and her siblings though...

I remember going to a friend's house in the mid 70s and there were no carpet upstairs. Not intentionally bare polished floorboards but just no carpet.

Another friend's house had no bathroom, and they had chamberpots under the beds.

I slept over at a friends house when I was 9-ish. There was a large, framed photo of her grandmother in a coffin (she was dead) in the sitting room.

She tried to get into the living room via the hatch from the kitchen but got stuck!

That's hit my funny bone!