we decided to round up some of the best responses:

1.

“It was an unspoken rule of no eating.

A few friends spent the night at a former friend’s house when we were teenagers.

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She offered us a small bowl of macaroni and cheese at about 4pm.

We thought it was an after school snack, but that was it.

Food wasnt mentioned again.”

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“I had a friend who kept plastic Ziploc bags on his SNES controllers, even while playing.”

u/sdss9462

3.

“I visited my bestie’s family farm for a week.

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Once you left the house you could not return until dinner time.

you could chill in the old farm house or farm garage.

My friend’s mum strictly enforced this the entire time I was there too.”

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u/Away-Sound-4010

5.Youre our houseguest, but family dinners are for family only.

Heres your plate, you could have your dinners this week in the basement.

u/CookDane6954

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“My old friend’s mum had a room in her house that NO ONE was allowed in.

No significance to the room, it was the ‘viewing room’.”

u/Pastor_Dale

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“Absolutely no petting the dog.

This was at my friend’s house when we were kids.

Nobody was to pet, touch, scratch, or feed the dog.

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I guess it was some kind of forbidden dog or something.

I never understood it.”

“I had a friend growing up whose mother ran an in-home day care.

We werent allowed to talk during meals.

u/lollipoppipop

11.

“I was a guest staying for a few days at someone’s house.

I had an iPhone in their Android household and wasnt allowed to have their wifi password because of that.

I was a college student at the time and brought my MacBook to do homework.

u/Aylabadayla

12.

“Kids were not allowed to bring any books with anthropomorphic characters into the house.

The mum didn’t want ‘her children growing up thinking that cats and dogs wore sweaters’.

I hated that house.”

“We were not allowed to use the dishwasher.

The dishwasher was used as a drying rack for the dishes you had to hand wash in the sink.

Yes, the dishwasher worked fine.”

u/bleachblondeamazon

14.

Black dress shoes for church were the only exception her parents allowed.”

u/DarkHorseRider311

15.My childhood friends parent would not allow us to see their house.

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Note: All submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.