BIZARRE PUNISHMENTS

Reddit asked, “What’s the most bizarre, creative punishment you ever received growing up?” Some of the responses:
– “When my siblings and I fought or argued we would have to get on our knees, nose to nose hugging each other and repeat ‘I love you’ for an undetermined amount of time.”
– “We had ‘The Get Along Shirt’ made out of a massive XXL T-shirt after my brother and I smashed a living room lamp during a Lego fight. They shoved us both inside with our heads side-by-side, forcing us to share a single torso for 20 agonizing minutes. The sheer absurdity hit us at the same time, and we ended up laughing so hard we nearly fell off the couch.”
– “I refused to clean my room for a couple weeks & my dad was really mad about it. I came home from school & my dad had filled my room with leaves and sticks that he had raked up.”
– “When I got mad and slammed a door, my dad made me open and close it softly 100 times. It was either that or a spanking.”
– “Kneel on rice.”
– “I was caught by my elementary school teacher trying to eat chocolate during class. He made me stand holding the chocolate between my clasped hands for the rest of the period. The chocolate melted and flowed out making a mess of my hands and shirt sleeves. It was diabolical but effective.”
– “My mom once made me write a 500-word essay on ‘why respect matters’ after I talked back to her. I was 12 and treated it like a real school assignment, complete with an intro and conclusion. Looking back, that’s actually genius parenting.”
– “Grew up poor with 5 siblings. We ate a lot of hotdogs and one punishment if you misbehaved was you just got ‘weenie water’ to drink for dinner.”
– “When my daughters were kids and they earned a time-out, I’d make them stand in the corner. The rule was they had to whine and complain about their punishment the entire time. Typically, within a minute they ran out of real things to complain about so they wound up laughing as they tried to invent new things.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What bizarre punishment have you had to endure?