Weird things about your home.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2003-06-04 08:23pm

My house has never had steps going from the back yard to the deck, which is on the second floor though most houses in my area do.

The basement is unfinshed. for the most part, all you see are beams in the wall and hthe paneling for the next room. Same goes for the celing, which is surprisingly handy given we can store stuff in the beams.

Anything odd about your houses?

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-04 08:41pm

Couple of people died in mine... mmm oh also i have a small concrete slab in the middle of my back yard, it sits right in the middle of the lawn. I have no idea what was suppose to be there

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-06-04 08:43pm

theheap wrote:Couple of people died in mine... mmm oh also i have a small concrete slab in the middle of my back yard, it sits right in the middle of the lawn. I have no idea what was suppose to be there

A grave marker?

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-06-04 08:44pm

theheap wrote:Couple of people died in mine... mmm oh also i have a small concrete slab in the middle of my back yard, it sits right in the middle of the lawn. I have no idea what was suppose to be there

Probably a foundation for an outbuilding like a tool shed or something.

Ours has an entire cieling that's actually the attic door. The whole thing is on hinges and counterweighted by two bricks that slide up and down the chimney shaft. Drop it down and it turns into a staircase.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-04 09:05pm

What used to be the back door leads into the kitchen.

That's about it...

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-06-04 09:17pm

Every year at least 10 birds fly into our front window and get Darwin'd. They snap their necks on impact and they're dead by the time they hit the ground. That's about it.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-04 09:22pm

aerius wrote:Every year at least 10 birds fly into our front window and get Darwin'd. They snap their necks on impact and they're dead by the time they hit the ground. That's about it.

[hijack]
LOL... I just had a bird fly into my house at mach 900 yesterday. We couldn't catch it and it wouldn't fly outside on its own. We finally grabbed it and threw it outside only have a hawk snatch it in mid air.[hijack/]

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-06-04 09:29pm

Unfinished basement, rat filled unfinished attic. We had a fireplace flu filled with animal bones and a trap door in our bathroom filled with animal bones and that's about it.

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-04 09:49pm

darthdavid wrote:Unfinished basement, rat filled unfinished attic. We had a fireplace flu filled with animal bones and a trap door in our bathroom filled with animal bones and that's about it.

holy shit

that is alot of animal bones. Was there alot of traps set or something

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-06-04 09:57pm

No idea. Speaking of animals, in years past there was a vet who supposedley sold neighborhood animals to the local univ's vetrinary lab.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-06-04 10:19pm

Well, it's surrounded by thick woods on three sides, unlike all of the other houses in the neighborhood. That and there's lots of stuff that breaks down and takes a while to get fixed. My microwave broke down once, and it took three months to get replaced. By then, I was used to boiling water on the stove.

My house it pretty normal.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-06-04 10:19pm

My house is a clone of a shitload of others in this planned community...There are WAY too many places to hide things in it...and my mom decided to paint one of the rooms a shade of blue so light most people don't see it. That's about it.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-06-04 10:33pm

1. When I bought my condo, it had two different color carpets. One grey, one green, both ugly.

2. The ceiling in the walk in closet is painted pumpkin orange. I really dont understand why anyone would do that.

3. When a big freight train goes by the house shakes a little.

4. The back door is in my bedroom.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-04 11:03pm

Not really. Though speaking of weird things: in Evanston, there was this gym for a school or community center with a door to the storage closet on the second level. That in and of itself wasn't unusual: except that it was, well, on the wall without any way to actually get up there without a ladder.

Yes, a door a few yards up on a wall.

A group in an engineering class I took had to design something; they ended up making this retractable ladder thing.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2003-06-05 12:50am

I think my house is one of the few private residences to hold foreign national treasures

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-06-05 01:21am

Nothing much execpt for a lot of spiders and scorpians(sp) decided my home is their home. Good thing is there's hardly any insects inside thanks to them.