36 Jaw-Dropping Home Surprises That Defy Explanation Revealed by Strangers
I went over to a friend’s house after school, and other than a door for the bathroom there wasn’t a single door hung in the house. His mother told me that if you’re behind a closed door you’re doing something secret and there there were no secrets in her house.
She would also randomly search his room for ‘secrets’. It wasn’t uncommon for him to come home and find all his clothes turned inside out and thrown into the hallway, and all his stuff also searched, examined, and thrown into the hallway. When he got home from school he was expected to have it all put away in an hour. What wasn’t put away when the timer went off was thrown away.
“Our homes are an amalgam of our choices and behaviours that accumulate over time,” explains psychologist and research scientist, Dr Linda Papadopoulos. “The fact that you have a special area for muddy wellies may attest to your family being an active one, and that old crochet blanket that covers the chair in your bedroom may be there because it reminds you of summers you used to spend at your grandma’s home.”
This was back in high school. My friend’s older brother had slippers made from his beloved dead dog’s hide with the fur still attached. I thought she was joking at first but she was perfectly serious and I realized that’s exactly what they looked like — they were definitely not fake fur slippers.
In grade 6 (age 11 or 12) I went for a sleepover at my new friends house. He and his family had just immigrated to Western Canada from Manchester or Bolton England; they were what you might call ‘working class’.
As soon as I get there his toothy mother comes into his room with a pen and a notepad and casually asks us what we will have from the liquor store.
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