Real People Share the Weird Behaviors That They Seriously Thought Were Normal
If you grew up surrounded by your immediate family, you may be surprised to find out that some of your habits and rituals are actually totally strange when you move out and start living in the real world.
Whether it’s strange dietary habits or serious hygiene deficiencies, good friends never wait to let their buddies know that their little habits are completely strange when they see them happen in public, much to everyone’s embarrassment.
“I’ve Never Had Spaghetti”
A coworker (mid 20’s, Midwest born and raised) sat down with spaghetti one day for lunch.
After twiddling the noodles around with the fork for a while, he looked and me and asked “How do you eat this”?
Thinking it was a joke, I laughed at him and kept eating. He looked at me with a straight face and said, “I’ve never had spaghetti.”
Our job had a cafeteria with different options, but this coworker normally got the same thing everyday (burger and fries) and I didn’t think anything of it.
Life is amazing.
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Odd Eating Habits
I lived with a girl that would eat baby powder that she had stashed in the drawer of the bathroom. She would walk by the bathroom and do quick shakes of the bottle right in her mouth.
She would also buy whole frozen fish from walmart and take them out of the freezer bag and slap them hard against the brick kitchen floor before cooking them in a stew.
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Lucid Dreaming
Until my early twenties, I thought lucid dreams were the norm. I cringe thinking of all the times I heard someone describe a bad dream and I said something along the lines of “Why didn’t you just change the dream?”
Growing up, I said this to several close family members, and NOT ONE told me that was weird.
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Strange Medications
My friend thought that everyone was regularly taking worming tablets to stop getting worms. It wasn’t until she got married and told her husband she was going to go pick up their worming tablets that she found out it wasn’t normal.
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