When you’re growing up, your friend’s parents can play a large part in your life, as a lot of childhood is spent going round and staying over at friend’s houses. A lot of the time, this can lead to a good relationship with your friend’s parents as you head into adulthood yourself, however, there can also be a few weird encounters along the way and exceptions to this!
One person took to Reddit to find out some of the weirdest encounters that people had experienced with their friend’s parents by asking, “What is the strangest experience you have had with a friend’s parent?”
A lot of people shared some truly strange stories; however, amongst the funnier responses, there were a lot of tragic tales, a selection of which have been gathered below.
Screaming For Them To Stay
“I was 12 years old, over at a friend’s place. When I had to leave to go home his mother came running after me screaming that I couldn’t leave, I was already halfway down a set of stairs and just knew something was wrong, so I said I had to and continued on. She was still screaming for me to come back. I told my parents when I got home and they ‘looked’ at each other. Then nothing more happened. A few weeks later I was over there again, everything was normal. My friend asked if I wanted to sleepover, he had the NES so of course, I wanted to. My parents didn’t let me through. True story, that fucking night his mother beat him to death with a wooden boat he had made in woodshop class.
“She was a diagnosed schizophrenic. My parents knew, they told me after his death.” — Drublix
This happened 25 years ago, and this person said the memory still haunts them. The murder happened when the child was asleep so they wrote that they hope he never felt a thing.
Pushing For Marriage
“I’ve known this boy since we were babies. Our parents always thought it was adorable that we were always together. His dad was convinced we would end up married. Basically my entire life his dad would try to get us together, he went as far as to send his son to my university so we could finally ‘fall in love and get married.’ Very creepy. When I married my husband, I got a Facebook message from his dad saying how disappointed he was in me for not marrying his son. I blocked him.” — the_grayunicorn
This guy sounds way too keen. This person also said that their friend and they have always been good friends but have never had any romantic interest in each other. It sounds like the dad was the one who was romantically interested!
Realising The Truth About Their Friend’s Dad
“Just the slow realization that my best friends “cool dad” was battling some major demons. When you’re young, having an adult who will take you shooting, let you drive their truck on the back roads at 11-12, teach you how to weld and fix cars, is amazing. Then you get older and realize that you were shooting guns in the middle of a suburb, your friend’s dad was drinking and needed a ride home and none of the welding instruction was done with proper safety gear, and you realize that the adult you idolized and looked up to was an alcoholic endangering kids.” — Teh_swimmly
As children, the perceptions we have of people are so innocent and rose-tinted. However, the older you get, in retrospect the world can seem like a much darker place.
Re-Ringing The Doorbell
“In high school, my friend was dating a guy and we both were invited by him to his house. His mom was super mean though and acted like us being there was awful. I rang the doorbell and was invited inside by the mom. I was there for an hour and had to go outside to get something out of my car. I came back inside and heard ‘UMEXCUSEME!’ ‘I’m sorry, yes?’ ‘You didn’t ring the doorbell before BARGING into my HOME.’ ‘Oh I’m sorry, uh…should I go back outside?’ ‘We wait to be invited inside this house.’
“I went back outside and the door was closed on me. I rang the doorbell and heard the Mom say ‘Who is it?’ ‘Hi it’s Rustmutt here to see your son.’ ‘Just a moment! opens door please come inside.’ Turns out every time you leave the house even for a second she expected the pageantry of a first invite.” — Rustmutt
I don’t think that I would have been able to ring that doorbell again and just pretend like nothing weird was going on.
Misogynist Father
“Me and my friend (both guys in our early 20’s then) were occasionally hanging out with these three girls (sisters) totally platonically, not interested romantically. They invited us over with a handful of other people for a completely innocuous gathering and when we got there, one of the girls happened to invite us in, holding the door open for us.
“Her dad was your stereotypical hot-headed testosterone-machine police officer that people talk about when they talk about the cops that give other cops a bad name. About an hour later in the back yard this girl comes up to us with a look of absolute dread on her face and tells us we need to go inside and apologize to her dad for walking in the door before her, because he’s absolutely livid and has been fuming over it for the last hour.
“We go inside and there he is sitting at the kitchen table at 9:30PM on a Wednesday night cleaning and oiling his rifle. We told him what he wanted to hear about how sorry we were and then left.”
Drinking Pasta
“One time I’m at my friend’s house and his father comes up to me and he asks if I want anything to drink. I politely ask if I could have a glass of water. Dead serious he responds with ‘oh sorry I don’t think we have any water. Would you like some pasta instead?’ Thinking its some kind of joke I say sure. He goes into the kitchen and comes back a little later with a drinking glass full of spaghetti and hands it to me before going back to whatever he was doing. Needless to say, I was quite confused.” — BlitzB4M
If this is supposed to be some kind of dad joke, I really don’t get it. Can you see what the point of this joke was supposed to be? Because I am completely lost!
Hitting On Them
“I was best friends with a girl from grade 4 to grade 7. A few years ago I ran into her parents at my brothers birthday party. The Dad got super drunk and started hitting on me hard. I’m married and I was there with my young children. It was at my brother’s house and the guy’s wife was right there!! Even then my brother still had to come save me from that creep.” — whitelimo69
Thank goodness that their brother read the room and stepped in. However, they really shouldn’t have had to be in that situation in the first place, what an uncomfortable situation to be in!
Slapped On The Ass
“When I was in high school, I was having dinner at my girlfriends parents place one night and she has two older brothers that were there as well. So I was setting my plate down at the table when suddenly I feel someone slap my ass, I turn around and it was her dad. we both just looked at each other and then he apologizes and says he thought I was one of his sons. I could tell he was pretty embarrassed. that was an awkward dinner lol…. especially because he didnt like me very much.” — yungtex
Wow, I can feel how uncomfortable that must have been. When I started reading this I thought it was going to be much darker.
Sleeping On Their Friend’s Half-Naked Father
“I was coming back from the annual county fair with a childhood friend and his cousin, heading to my friend’s house. Unfortunately, I got really sick at the fair and was sprawled out in the back of my friend’s cousin’s car trying my best not to puke everywhere. Out of desperation for my stomach pain to pass, I didn’t even turn on the lights when I got to his house and literally fell onto the bed in the dark only to find his dad under me snoring.
“Apparently my friend’s dad was staying up waiting for us to get home and fell asleep on his bed. I obviously woke him up and he freaked out, turned on the lights and yup he was in his underwear. When he saw it was us he laughed at the situation but it was definitely one of the most uncomfortable experiences of my life. I’m just glad I didn’t throw upon him.” — edgaralan_o
They went on to say that their friend’s room was at the front of the house and so they think their friend’s dad was using that room just to see them pull into the driveway and make sure they were okay, but fell asleep in the process.
Staring Contests
“My strangest [experience]? me and my friend’s dad (who I didn’t know very well) suddenly had a staring contest over dinner and we just kept on having them after that. never talked, nothing happened, just had a staring contest every time I had dinner. I was ten at the time.
“Nothing f*cked up lol.” — esther-mao
I really want to know who won! I was always terrible at staring contests, I didn’t have the attention span.
Accused Of Stealing
“I practically lived over at my friend’s house from my mid to late teens. They were a devout Pentecostal family and his dad was treasurer of their church. I go over to their house, walk-in and both parents are immediately in my face. “DID YOU STEAL MONEY FROM US!!” Someone broke into their roll top desk and stole 2k from the church funds. They accused me, then the mother broke down and started crying. Sitting on the couch, hands in her face balling. Then they all started praying for the return of the money. Then they prayed over me for guidance to do the right thing. I thought, WTH!
“What they didn’t know was that their son, my friend, had his eye on a 2k Nikon F3 camera for a few months and his parents wouldn’t buy it for him. What really blew my mind was he bought the camera and they never suspected him of stealing the money. And he never apologized to me for it.” — crowning
I’m not even sure if this is strange or just unpleasant. Accusing someone of stealing is a very serious accusation, and do not believe this person’s innocence when their child was so obviously in the wrong is ridiculous. I suppose no one ever want’s to see their own child as the bad guy though.
Friend’s Mom Assuring That She Won’t Have Sex With Them
“We picked up my friend’s mom one night at a bar cause she was drunk and on the way back she kept yelling ‘I’m not going to f*ck you!’ to me in the backseat and I was high out of my mind. But yeah that was the strangest 1hr ride of my life.” — GraveSymphony
I didn’t realize that this person lived in literally any stoner flick ever. Also, this must have been a terrifying situation for this person at the time.
Getting A Physical Exam From Friend’s Dad
“My lifelong friend’s dad is a nurse practitioner. When I was 19 I lost a lot of weight in a short amount of time, so I went in to see him. He gave me a rectal exam i.e., stuck his fingers up my butt. He had big fat fingers so it was painful and extremely awkward. I’ll occasionally get a, ‘Hey, remember that time my dad stuck his fingers up your butt?’ from my buddy.” — user5778
Yep, that’s got to be one of the most painfully awkward encounters with a medical professional of all time.
The “Artist” Father
“A friend’s dad was an artist. We came in from playing one day to see another dad from our school lashed to a cross, butt naked with a huge boner. Artist was doing a painting of Jesus. Later found out crucified dad was gay.” — vrosej10
I can imagine that would really impact your relationship with religious symbolism from then on as well.
Picking Up Prostitutes
“When we were 18, we were driving around the sketchy part of town fairly later at night, just chatting and singing along to music, wandering about as teenagers do. We were on a double date. I often slept over at friend 1’s house and spent a lot of time with his family. My boyfriend’s mom worked with his mom, so he also knew friend 1’s family well. Friend 1 had been dating his girlfriend for a couple of years, and she, of course, knew his parents well.
“We saw friend 1’s dad’s car, which was surprising, as it was at least midnight and he usually went to bed early. We then saw his dad’s car pull over and pick up what was clearly a prostitute. We could clearly see and recognize his dad driving and saw her lean down in the seat, toward him, as they drove past us.
“After that, we were all very quiet. I drove everyone home, [and] then we all never spoke about it again, but the 3 of us who saw just had a hard time being comfy around either of his parents again.” — 2beagles
The Murder Game
“Was friends with a girl who’s dad murdered her mom. I was at their house shortly before it happened and remember him playing a ‘game’ where he’d hold pillows over our faces and have us raise our hands when we couldn’t breathe anymore.
“Guess how he murdered his wife?”
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Wow! That sounds like a super fun game, and definitely not something that should be reported to child services and/or the police!
Confessing About Leaving Their Last Family Behind
“We were white water rafting in Maine. I was in a truck with my friend, a different friend’s dad, 2 ten year old boys going to the pickup spot at the end of the rafting route. I’m in the passenger seat and the dad is driving. I was about I was about 17 at the time, and the topic of ‘being a man’ came up. He talked about how sometimes you just need to follow your dreams. We’re all listening at this point. He then tells us this isn’t his first life.
“Told us he moved to the west coast when he was really young and started a family. Wife, kids. He said liked them decently enough but he wanted to get more out of life. So one day he went out to pick up some milk and never went back. I don’t know how the kids in the truck took the story, but my friend and I were pretty WTF the rest of the trip.” — WetMice
Inviting Someone Over To Watch Pornography
“It was in the early days of our romantic relationship and we had been friends for nearly a decade before that. I had helped her dad install a new home theatre system.
I got a call from him a week later because he couldn’t get the system to work properly. To be fair it was quite a complicated system but it was all hooked up to a single touch screen remote thingy. I talked him through it all and he was ‘thank f*ck now I can enjoy this porn in peace’. I just chuckled and then he thanked me and invited me over to check out the new system. He immediately stumbled on his words as he realized what he was saying. I was like ‘Mick, did you just invite me over to watch porn with you?’ it was just his generous personality coming through and I was laughing my ass off. He said ‘yeah actually that’s probably not a very good idea seeing as you’re going out with my daughter, what was I thinking lol’. — sunburnedtourist
In It For The Money
“A friend’s father was absolutely convinced that I was only friends with his daughter for money. They weren’t exactly rich, maybe a tiny bit better off than we were, but it was impossible for him to know that. When her Dreamcast needed a new cable after one of her pets chewed through it, he came storming into her room while we were hanging out and demanded to know why I thought he would buy me something. My friend had to jump in and explain that it was her cable, not mine. He’d complain if I spent the night because he had to feed me like I was a stray cat. It was incredibly weird. The worst part is he made extremely inappropriate jokes all throughout dinner when I was there. I was maybe 14.
Looking back, I’m starting to wonder if he wasn’t just high. My friend explained that he kept one fingernail long to pick his nose, but I’ve been told that is not its only purpose. None of his behavior ever made sense.”
Do you have any strange encounters to rival the ones on this list? Let me know if so, but they’d have to be pretty strange!
