What insane thing did someone think was completely normal in their house?

I knew a girl who'd get glasses of water, and whenever she couldn't finish the whole thing,

she'd just dump the rest on the carpet, because it's fine, it just absorbs it.

I went to high school with the girl whose family would dress up their house like a model home being sold or something.

For example, the

dining room table was dressed with a plastic Thanksgiving feast, with plastic food on nice

plates, and fake wine in fake glasses. When you walked into her bedroom, the bed was made with

top corners open, as if she had just got out of bed, and there was a tray with a fake bowl of cereal

and a fake glass of cereal and a fake

glass of orange juice.

On the floor were colouring books and crayons as if a child lived in the room.

They kept the place spotless, and every room had an odd theme of fake living.

Her parents' bedroom had quite a few large African animal statues and fake rose petals

leading to the bed. People actually

get paid to live in model homes or homes for sale. They have to keep them immaculately clean and

ready to be shown at any time. Maybe that's what happened. When I moved cities in grade two

or three, I didn't know anyone. I met someone the first day and he invited me to his house

that weekend to stay over. Everything was great. We played GameCube and stayed up until 3am,

the latest I'd been awake to up at that point in my life. He said we had to sleep down in the

basement so we don't wake his parents when we went upstairs. We go downstairs with our sleeping

bags and immediately I knew something

was wrong. The worst smell I've ever experienced filled my nostrils the further we descended.

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