24 Ridiculous Rules People Were Forced to Follow at Someone Else’s Home

It’s practically the catchphrase of parents everywhere: “My house, my rules.” Sometimes, those rules are very good. Stuff like “things under the sink aren’t for dinner,” and “the only thing allowed in electrical sockets are plugs.” Sometimes, though, those rules can get a little wonky, colored by what’s obviously some unprocessed trauma from the generation before.

Worse still is when the kids bound by said rules don’t have the context to realize that no one else is living by their mom or dad’s strangely specific creeds. It takes one world-shattering sleepover to find out that nobody else is getting timed in the shower, or that The Simpsons may not, in fact, be a work of sin and devilry. 

Here, then, is a collection of the weirdest “house rules” that Redditors have ever seen pop up in the wild, many of which will make you think twice before attending a dinner party.