What is normal in your family, but is weird to outsiders?

[Dilbertian]

Inspired by this thread,
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/3959655-To-ask-for-your-weird-family-behaviours-that-you-didnt-realise-werent-normal-until-you-were-older, what weird family behaviours will our dc be posting about when they are adults?

I’m sure my dc think that dunking biscuits is normal. You’re thinking about cups of tea, aren’t you? Dunking biscuits was the way we used to put our dc in the bath: hold them upside-down and slowly dunk them in head-first. Only until their hair got wet. Then we’d turn them the right way up. They were very sad when they physically got too big for us to do it any more.

Or the appalling consequences we threatened for minor annoyances, such as “Do that again and I’ll stuff you backwards up the chimney.” (We haven’t got a chimney.)

Threatening to throw people in the sea, because we had a teacher who threatened it & it stuck.

If you keep doing that I will throw you in the sea....

Weird AF.

Eating together as a family at 5.30pm. It seems to fucking baffle people!!

Used to tell DS that I would send him back to Baby's r us if he wasn't kind.
He has seen me take toys back to toys r us and thought about it for 10 seconds. Then was 'nope, you love me too much!'

My sister however beloved she was left on the doorstep by her 'other parents' and mine were kind enough to take her in for ages! I got into a lot of trouble for that. 30 years later she still reminds me 😳😂

To be fair she got me back in so many ways!

Threatening to throw people in the sea, because we had a teacher who threatened it & it stuck.

That reminds me of dc1's Y7 Form Tutor, who used to threaten to rip students' arms off and beat them with the soggy end. She told us once that most Y7s looked shocked or perplexed the first time she said this to the class, but dc1 had grinned happily. "That's when I knew we were going to get on very well," she said. And they did. Clearly my outrageous threats had prepared dc1 well!

Our kitchen is quite small and we kind of have to side step around each other and keep moving out of each other’s way in the morning when we’re all making coffee, breakfast, lunch boxes etc... we call it the breakfast dance.
For Christmas, my mum had to give out the presents from under the tree. ONE AT A TIME. And we all have to sit and watch that one person open their present, admire it, they say thank you, and then on to the next present. The first Christmas I spent at my OH’s felt like a free for all!
When my family finishes off a carton of milk, we say, 'the cow’s dead.'
Growing up, my parents and grandma would always put a single ice cube in my soup before serving it to me to 'cool it down.' I took me A WHILE to realize most people just wait for it to cool down.

Dh and I were on a cruise last year and they played a song about washing your hands which we changed to wash your bum and sing before going in the shower