Ridiculous things people told you when you were little..

[LBIJim]

Thunder is from the Angels Bowling League.


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That's what my mother told me; thunder is the angels in Heaven bowling. And I told my kids the same thing. A really loud clap of thunder was a strike.

 

[Scornelius]

My dad always said if I picked my nose, my head would cave in. He also told me that the little chunks in Spumoni ice cream were "spumones", and refused to tell me what a "spumone" acutally was.

 

[HannaBelle]

My older brother told me that my parents found me on the side of the road in the trash and decide to pick me up and keep me.

I have red hair and green eyes, both parents have dark hair and dark eyes. My older brother was very convincing... He would repeat the same story every time we drove by the same corner. After a few years, I asked my mother if he was telling the truth and she said, "Of course"! So, I believed her and decided that being adopted was not bad because they had chosen me. They were stuck with him!

I was 12 or 13 when she heard me talking about being adopted and was shocked to hear that I did not know she was "just joking" about finding me in the trash!

 

[marmalade]

My mother told me that the fruit roll-ups that I must have been bugging her to eat were tomato flavored and they were for adults only.

 

[willowsnn3]

My older brother told me that bologna was monkey meat and that the little green 'English' peas were those little bugs that roll up when you touch them, lol.

 

[ilovepcot]

I adored birds when I was little...had several as pets. Was sitting on the front porch with my grandfather one afternoon watching birds in the front yard. My grandfather told me if I'd like to catch one of the birds, all I had to do was sprinkle salt on its tail. You should have seen me running ALL OVER the yard trying to sprinkle salt on a bird's tail...any bird. Okay, so I was 19 before I knew this wasn't true! Hehehe

 

[Disneyland1084]

OMG I'm LMAO reading these stories. And I thought MINE was funny!

 

[Luv Bunnies]

My mom told us the truck that came around and played music was just that...a music truck! We had no idea it sold ice cream until some other kids told us.

 

[Schminston-Mo]

There are drinking fountains on the top of water towers. Since you cans see something on the top of the water towers, I believed this longer than I should have.

My friend's uncle had dated Olivia Newton-John. Ok this was during the Grease, Xanadu era, but I believe it because why would you lie about something like that?!

 

[NFLDERS]

That one can dig a hole that leads to China!

You can not.

I know because I tried.. You can however really make your parents upset!
Note to self:. Do not tell youngest dgd this!

 

[izzy]

My dad was the jokester in my family, and very convincing. He told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed that a watermelon would grow in my stomach. He also told me that chocolate milk came from brown cows.

 

[NFLDERS]

OMG I'm LMAO reading these stories. And I thought MINE was funny!

Me too!

 

[sara mom]

My fib to the kids...... The ice cream truck only plays the music when it runs out of ice cream. So, my kids have never asked.

 

[Music City Mama]

My mom told us the truck that came around and played music was just that...a music truck! We had no idea it sold ice cream until some other kids told us.

My fib to the kids...... The ice cream truck only plays the music when it runs out of ice cream. So, my kids have never asked.

 

[luvavacation]

In my family, nothing is sacred when it comes to joking. There were so many things I was told that I used to believe, but there was one in particular that I am pretty sure is true - rubbing butter on your chest will give you large breasts.

I was told this when I was maybe 8 or so, though I have no idea how the conversation started. When no one was around, I would try it. Lo and behold, a few years later, I became very "blessed" in the chest area. Must have been those cow hormones in the butter.

Also, eating the crust of bread will give you nice pink cheeks. I have those, too.

Hmm, maybe my parents did know what they were talking about?

 

[PigletsPal2]

I thought of another one: Like all sisters, we squabbled a great deal, sometimes all four of us at once! My dad could settle us down instantly by threatening to bobsquibble us. My mother assured us rhat being bobsquibbled was the LAST thing we wanted done, so we would settle down - until the next time,

Luckily none of us were ever bobsquibbled, and I used the same threat on my
DD when they were little. They were just afraid of being bobbquibbled as we were.

Queen Colleen

 

[lizabu]

That one can dig a hole that leads to China!

You can not.

I know because I tried.. You can however really make your parents upset!
Note to self:. Do not tell youngest dgd this!

I once spent an entire summer break digging a hole to China. My parents didn't care until it got very deep. I could sit in the bottom and no one could see me. I did it all with a kitchen spoon. They filled it in on me.

 

[design_mom]

When I was young (like kindergarten age), the man who lived on the corner of the street was a joker and was friends with my dad.

He warned me that I needed to be careful walking home from school past his house because he had wolves that lived in his trees. He said he'd tried everything to keep them away, but they wouldn't go... and he was sure that they'd love a little girl for an afternoon snack. I was pretty sure he was joking, even then. But I still kept an eye on those trees when I walked past his house every day, just in case. I can only imagine the laugh he must have had if he saw me -- five years old with backpack and lunch box, eyes on the trees, ready to run at the first sight of a wolf.

(P.S. I live in Ohio and wolves are pretty scarce here... especially tree-dwelling wolves!)

 

[marmalade]

Another one my parents used to tell us, is if we got out of bed at night for anything other than to use the bathroom or if we were sick the Toe-Tookies that lived under our beds would take our toes. I still fear the Toe-Tookies!!

 

[SallySkelington]

When I was younger my favorite movie was Jurassic Park, a love I shared with my cousin. (He had all the coolest JP toys I tell you). He is a few years older than me and he told me that they were really cloning dinos. Yeah... that kind of freaked me out. I totally believed it. I was on the look out to see if there were any Raptors in my backyard for years afterwards.

I was doing a research paper in high school during senior year and I came across an article about cloning animals. Apparently they had considered cloning dinos but the DNA was too old. Or something of that nature (keep in mind I read this a few years ago) But Woolly mammoths aren't out the question!