It’s always weird at work or school when you learn about a rule that is very specific…and very odd.

It makes you say out loud, “what the hell happened to force someone to create this rule?”

And today we’re gonna find out the background behind a bunch of these!

Folks on AskReddit discussed the rules they’ve seen that made them question where they came from.

Let’s see what they had to say.

1. Wow.

“Years ago I had a queen mattress that had a warning label in all uppercase red lettering stating: WARNING: DO NOT SWALLOW.

Many, many times I’ve wondered who the individual responsible for this warning label is, and how much I’d like to shake their hand.”

2. Doing it in secret.

“I worked at an office that banned men from wearing women’s clothing, specifically jeggings.

I started wearing a women’s thong under my clothes. It felt pretty comfortable actually.”

3. That’s a bummer.

“It was against the rules to cook mac and cheese at my elementary school.

For some reason even though teachers were the only ones with access to a kitchen this applied to everyone.”

4. That didn’t end well.

“In our Catholic high school we are alternately seated so female male female male, to avoid talking to our seatmates and being loud.

Some 8th graders decided to do some lewd stuff not sure what but now all of the females are seated on the left side of the room and the boys are seated on the right.”

5. You did this!

“Do NOT climb into the lunch hall rafters.

I know because I’m the dumb f**k who managed to get up there and couldn’t get down.”

6. Kinda weird.

“We could not wear leggings without a shirt that goes past our middle finger.

Idk if you count that but I got in trouble for it way to many times.”

7. That’s too bad.

“Fryers are cleaned in the morning when the oil is cool instead of at night (like every other location in the chain) when the oil is still hot.

Turns out a dude decided to send it with the fryer cleaning brush one night when they wanted to close and go home within the hour, making hot oil come splashing out of the fryer and onto his body.

He had to go to the hospital for some pretty bad burns.”

8. Okay…

“”When showering after gym class always shower with a buddy (like you enter/leave together).

Never to this day know what that was about…”

9. Jailbreak!

“No speaking a language other than English in the hallways at an international boarding school.

Turns out some Chinese kids were openly plotting to run away from the school and well…they couldn’t have that.

Can you tell I had a great high school experience?”

10. Yikes.

“No mirrors in the school restroom.

Apparently the students in the school like to break the mirrors and use it as shank.

A lot of students were st**bed.”

11. Amazing.

“I worked at a water treatment plant.

There was a 5-gallon plastic bucket there that had this stenciled on it: “Do not use as a hard hat.””

12. The best and the brightest.

“Physics students here, for our subatomic experiments, our teacher give us a courses about security because we where going to use radioactive sources. On one slide of his courses we all read (and he read it out loud too).

“DO NOT EAT THE SOURCES”

I don’t know what the students years before us tried, but d**m…”

How about you?

Have you ever seen any rules that made you scratch your head?

Tell us about them in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!

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Do you ever see a rule at work or school that is SUPER specific and it makes you say, “what happened here to make them come up with this rule…and who did it?”

Yeah, you know what I’m talking about…

Well, today we’re gonna get some answers, darn it!

AskReddit users talked about the weird rules they’ve seen that made them question where they came from. Let’s check it out.

1. Hmmm…

“Our Middle school had a rule:

“No bicycle helmets allowed in the school building!”.

When the weather was nice a lot of us rode bicycles and we all wore riding helmets since it was a school rule and we could get put in detention if we showed up on a bicycle not wearing one. There were hooks above the bike rack outside to hang our riding helmets on, but we all wondered about that strange rule about not bringing them indoors.

Once I was chatting with the assistant principal and I happened to ask him about it, and he said a few years before one girl used hers as a weapon and swung it at and really clonked another girl with it hard enough that she fell against the lockers.”

2. Not very bright.

“This was written for one class I was in and my class only.

Do NOT put your finger in the pencil sharpener

This was an “advanced” class.”

3. What’s the backstory?

“My university residence first year had a strict “No Octopi allowed in dorms” rule posted at the front desk.

No mention of other aquatic creatures.”

4. Well, duh…

“Do not injure a fellow student…

Regardless if WITH or without their permission…”

5. New rule.

“Do not enter the secure corridor and let the first door shut behind you if you do not have the code for the second door.

Some complete idiot got trapped between the doors for five hours.

It might have been me…”

6. Ouch!

“”Do not put your hands into the machine while it’s moving.”

And “Do not take apart the safety knives to get the blade out.”

Both have happened while I worked there.”

7. Hmmmm…

“”No food items permitted in employee restrooms”

I knew who was taking their little snacks in there but I never snitched because it struck me that the perp very possibly had an eating disorder.”

8. I can only imagine.

“An escape room I used to frequent had a rule that clothes must stay on at all times while in the room.

I can guess what happened.”

9. Now you know.

“My employee handbook had a rule that said no sleeping at your desk. I thought that was pretty obvious and wondered why it had to be said.

My first day of work, I realized my co-worker who sat behind me was the reason they included it. I’m working and all of a sudden, hear loud snoring. The dude was full on sleeping and no one batted an eye.

Turns out he bought a doctor’s note saying he has sleep apnea and is prone to random bouts of sleep and management couldn’t punish him for it.”

10. Ignorant.

“Used to work in a warehouse that only employed like a dozen people in a small town, they had a whole handbook of rules with a very thorough section on racial/ s**ual intolerance etc. which is unusual for such a job, at least around here.

It turned out once, a few years before, the owner walked into the shipping room and the pack team supervisor was hosting a “pow-wow” and had everybody prancing in a circle, clapping their hands and chanting “heya-hoya.” I still saw some pretty ignorant s**t while I was there.”

11. Gotta be careful.

“Do not turn on heavy machinery being demonstrated by teachers.

Told to us by the design and technology teacher with half a finger missing.”

12. Awesome!

“At the student society: If you’ve been a member for 15 years, you’re allowed to ride your motorcycle into the dining hall.

No one knew why the rule existed and no one had ever made it to 15 years since you can’t be a member once you graduate. People just assumed someone made it up one day while drunk.

Until I asked my dad about it, he was at the same uni in the 1970s, and a member of the same society. He told me it was a special treat for one of the janitors of the building when he had worked there for 15 years. A bunch of students hauled his motorcycle up to the second floor and he was allowed to start it in the staircase, and then ride into to dining hall.

The rule was then added that any student who made it to 15 years would be allowed to do the same.”

Have you ever come across any ridiculous rules and had moments like this?

Tell us your stories in the comments!

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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