What's the strangest thing you've seen in someone's house that they thought was 'normal'?

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I'll go first.

When I was 7, I went to a friend's house, and had bright red mashed potatoes for dinner.her dad always put food colouring in food. She thought this was normal, a d everyone had coloured mash.

@MouseholeCat

Ha would have helped if I had added the reply with the photo!

@SourMilkGhyll

Walking into the bathroom and finding a (aquatic) pet being kept in the bath.

A friend of mine once came round to find a pigeon in a cardboard box in my bath.

To be fair, it was only there temporarily before I took it to an animal shelter later that afternoon. It was a tame homing pigeon with a ring on its leg, and I'd found it, exhausted and collapsed in my garden.

Not that shocking but definitely of its time - my aunt and uncle's house in the 1970s with a calendar of topless women hanging in the toilet.

@Queenofthe ashes @Nokyo Should say, I use pudding rice - haven't tried it with long grain or rissoto rice.

@Kanaloa

I know. They were fairly normal people, not weird in the slightest, but every time she offered me tea at work I was put off because it made me think of him stirring the skin off his 5 hour old tea.

If you did that in our house our cat would have sampled all of them. He likes cold tea out of human cups.

@careerchangeperhaps

Growing up, I went to a friend's house for tea and you had to ask for the toilet roll before using the loo. It was rationed (one square for a wee, two for a poo). Really weird!

Did you post this on another thread ages ago? I remember someone saying this exact thing lol

A friend who is perfectly normal makes a spectacular roast dinner but serves it with baked beans 🥴

Lots of Giraffe in gardens in Surrey - there are three near where a friend of mine lives. Locally very famous!

@Cocolapew pleeeeease a photo

All the stories of dog shit are reminding me of a place we used to go to learn fight choreography. The producer of Blackadder Back and Forth was staying the night, and in the morning, one of the Jack Russell puppies ran in and shat on the bed!

I'm gonna have to add a twist and say the weirdest thing someone did in my house: during a party a friend decided to cut her hair with a pair of nail scissors.
like it was the most natural thing to do.
it looked shit

(she was sober)

I stayed with a friend for a week and thought it was weird nobody was allowed to wash their hair in the shower. They were only allowed to wash their hair over the kitchen sink. So, you’d shower then come downstairs and wash your hair in the kitchen.

during a party a friend decided to cut her hair with a pair of nail scissors.

How long did that take?! My hair is recoiling at the thought 😂

The strangest thing that happened to me was being invited for tea to a school friend’s house and we had sausages, burgers and potato waffles, all cooked in the deep fat fryer, served with spaghetti hoops.
It was swimming in grease, and I’d been brought up to eat what was offered, so I ate it 🤮

@Houseofvelour I don't think so. Maybe the other poster was a mutual childhood friend of mine and the toilet roll rationing family .

Student house I moved into with friends had a back room behind the kitchen that was accessed by going out into the yard and then back in, so it was perhaps a kind of granny annexe. But, when you opened the door there were a couple of steps down into the room and it was at least ankle deep in water. Like an accidental paddling pool. The letting agent didn't mention it, as if it was somehow normal. And there was a huge poster of Doris Day in the bathroom. Not that there's anything wrong with Doris Day but a big picture blu tacked to the bathroom wall is a bit unusual. And the place was filthy too, no post tenancy cleans in those days! It was the best we looked at too hence us moving in, we saw some shockers.

@IncludeWomenInThePrequel this is my favourite so far.

A pan of sheep's eyes being boiled.

@MyMummyHasGotABigBottom that sounds like my house growing up.
Sunday tea was salmon sandwiches and a bowl of cucumber and onions in vinegar.
The salmon was usually tinned pink salmon and I used to ask for the bones to eat before it was mashed with vinegar.
With tea we also had cream crackers with cheese and jelly for dessert. In a big glass jelly mould

The only bathroom in the house - the only one - was at the end of a galley kitchen and accessed through sliding glass doors. Yes, that's right, a bathroom off the kitchen, with glass doors. Fortunately the toilet was tucked away behind the shower, but you could still see someone's legs poking out if they were sitting on it, so, no, I won't have that drink, thank you. It was a new bathroom and a new set of doors, so they had chosen this weirdness.

@youvemademyshitlist
The dream... I dislike looking at our kitchen appliances out, would love to hide them all away behind cupboard doors!

A bike in a bedroom. I noticed it when I went upstairs for the loo and the bedroom door was open

Not in the house as such, but as you get to the property, alongside the gates there is an enormous green and yellow missile - I'm talking about 25ft high (guesstimate).

He is a rich scrap metal merchant, so maybe that explains it? But I have no idea who would have brought a missile to be weighed in.

My bff's df used to iron his money wearing just his underpants!! No sight a teenager should see..

Why is hot rice pudding with jam in considered weird 😭😭 you can literally buy muller rice with jam in

No hand soap. Anywhere. They used shower gel to wash their hands