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

My friend's brother was picked on by her father in front of me when I was quite young maybe about 8 or 9 - sort of verbally torn apart about something he had said. I couldn't understand what I was seeing as it was so unlike anything that happened in my house I couldn't really process it. Might help if I tell you what happened. We were all watching tv and an advert came on with two little children talking. Friend's brother said 'how facetious' commenting on the children. I didn't know that word and I was impressed but obviously it was not the right word to use and his dad really went off at him about showing off with fancy language, who did he think he was, using the wrong word which showed how ignorant he was, shouldn't ever use a word if you don't know what it means, etc etc. It really went on for ages and I was really uncomfortable. In our house we loved different words and we would have chatted about the word 'facetious' for ages, maybe looked it up, used it as a joke for a while to describe things, but never ever would that telling off have happened. Looking back, I feel so upset for the boy and he must have only been about 11 at the time and he was reduced to a wreck by his dad by that, really upset and close to tears.

Once stayed at the house of a friend who’s parents owned a pub. They were obviously downstairs working and left the 11 year old upstairs with huuge Doberman dogs. In the night I got up for a wee and found massive dog poo’s on the Lino In the bathroom. Told the friend who seemed completely unfazed and just said that was where the dogs pooped when her parents were working 😳

I had a friend when I was in infant school and their spare room was just full of loose and random clothes piled up, floor to ceiling. You opened the door and they kind of fell at you.

Being served rabbit pie at my best friend's home, aged 6. I had a pet rabbit at the time.

One of my friends had older parents who still kept the front room sofa all covered and only uncovered it all when someone significant was visiting!

The parents of my best friend at primary school had a copy of the Radio Times on top of the TV and an exercise book and pencil. If there was something they wanted to watch they wrote it in the book and the TV would be switched on for that particular programme and off afterwards.
Her mum rang a bell for 'drinks' before dinner on a Saturday and we'd sit and drink a glass of fruit juice before the meal was served.

I remember having a sleepover at a friends, we were really quite young, maybe 7, and witnessing a godawful row between the parents late at night. My parents never had cross words so I'd never seen anything like it. She was an only child so I think she really liked having me about and thinking about it now she must have felt so alone when she was sat on the top of the stairs listening to the screaming accusations night after night.

Ooh good idea for a thread, I love weird people stories! I can't really think of anything that extreme, but I remember one friend I used to have in primary school made a game of knocking on her teenage brothers door and then running away before getting beaten up by him... She'd cry and then a little later do it again!

I remember being about 13/14 and going to my friend’s house and he mum ordered her to wash the dishes and I offered to dry them. My friend declined my help and the mum went batshit. She started shouting at my friend that when someone offers you help then you take it.

I gingerly picked up the dish cloth and started drying in silence and left straight after. I didn’t go back. 😬

Sheep's eyeballs being boiled.

My bff 's df used to iron his cash while wearing only Y fronts..
Grim.

As a 6year old playing with the local hairdressers son in the early 70's, I distinctly remember the whips & chains hung over his (single) Mums bed. I never twigged at the time obv, but later thought it odd they were so displayed & that she didn't turn a hair at us playing hide & seek in there.