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12+ People Reveal the Weirdest Quirks Their Families Have

Author: Matt Gilligan / Source: did you know?

I come from a big family so I get it: every family is weird and has their own particular quirks that don’t make much sense to anyone else.

In this AskReddit thread, people share the strangest quirks that their family shares.

1. Card tricks

“We always get each other cards for holidays and birthdays, but we make them the stupidest or most unrelated card possible.
Like my mom gave me a card for my 18th birthday that was all about how she was proud of the strong black man that I had become… I’m white.

My mom had gallbladder surgery and me and my brother got her a bunch of “It’s a girl!” balloons. Lots of confused nurses asking us if we were looking for the maternity ward.

We also try to get weird things written on cakes. “Sorry About the Test Results” was one that we thought was hilarious. “It was only a mole.” was another. A lot of people don’t get it. I have tried extending it beyond my family. I got my friend a “Happy Bat Mitzvah” card for her wedding. She was really confused and told me that neither her or her husband were Jewish (they also weren’t turning 13).

However, in college I had an Australian roommate and he had to have his appendix removed. I pulled the same stunt and got him a bunch of “It’s a Boy” balloons. He said it was the funniest s*** he had ever seen. All those balloons and confused doctors and nurses.”

2. You’ve been warned

“The double-clap butt-slap warning.

For quite a while, my large family found it highly entertaining to playfully slap each others’ butts. It was somewhere between football players’ “we swear this is manly” and “that actually kind of hurt a little”.

Well, we decided that fair warning was in order, so that we had a chance of evading. This consisted of clapping twice. Sometimes a fast clap, clap and tap in what felt like one smooth motion, but probably looked spectacularly ridiculous. Sometimes a slow, meaningful clap…clap… Wait for it… SLAP.

We started just randomly clapping twice without a clear shot, hoping the other person would forget about it by the time we had a chance. We had to set what amounted to a statute of limitations on the time from first clap to slap. 5 minutes, if I remember correctly.

By then, we’d clap just to watch our siblings jump. Endless entertainment. We still do it now and then. The oldest is over 40, youngest mid-twenties, and the next generation (17 down to infant) has no idea what to think of it.

I could probably think of dozens more, but this one came to mind first.”