Did your parents . . . or your friends' parents . . . have any weird rules when you were growing up? Someone online asked people to name the weirdest rules they had as kids. Here are the highlights . . .
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1. A mom told her kids NOT to cover their mouth when they coughed or sneezed, because she didn't want their hands to get dirty.
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2. A kid wasn't allowed to use the word "fart." They had to call them "fluffs."
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3. A kid's mom thought drinking more than one glass of water a day would "dilute the nutrients" in their body. So after one glass, they had to drink 7-Up.
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4. A guy's parents still enforced his bedtime when he was in his 20s. He partied at a friend's house for his 21st . . . and had to call his dad at 8:00 P.M. to say he was going to bed. He secretly stayed up later than that.
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5. A kid's very religious parents wouldn't let him watch "SpongeBob SquarePants", because they thought the holes in SpongeBob's body would induce, quote, "lustful thoughts."
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6. A kid's grandfather wouldn't let them finish their leftover cereal milk by drinking it from the bowl. They had to finish it off with their spoon.
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7. A couple kept a running tab of all the money they spent on their kids for 18 years . . . from food and clothes to sports equipment . . . and told them they'd eventually have to pay them back. But when they graduated, they "cleared" their tab and called it their graduation gift.
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8. Used Kleenex had to be flushed. It couldn't go in the trash.
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9. A girl's mom made all her friends wear socks in their swimming pool, because she was paranoid everyone had plantar warts.
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10. A girl's mom took the "don't swim after eating" rule to the extreme. She also had to wait at least 30 minutes to take a BATH. She didn't realize it was weird until she was an adult.
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(BuzzFeed)