Ridiculous things people told you when you were little..

[SirDuff]

Same uncle still has my nose, I believe. He didn't give it back the last time he took it from me.

I tried that with my three-year-old niece this weekend (it's worked before). She looked at me (with a pitying look) and said "That's your finger. My nose is still on my face." Well, that's me told.

 

[barkley]

my mom was in her 70's when her first grandchild was born (my dd) so as far as dd was concerned grandma was REALY ooooooooooooooooooooold . it should come as no surprise then that she fully believed my brother when he told her that grandma was so old she- rode dinosaurs to school, and baby sat both santa clause and baby jesus. he also told her that baby jesus was the better baby to sit for because "his diapers never stunk".

yup-that made for a great parent/teacher conference after she shared it during circle time at the fundamental Christian preschool she attended



as a child I fully believed what my mom taught me-that the truck that played music and roamed the neighborhood sold................fish. to this day when we pass an ice cream truck dh sez 'look honey, it's the fishman'

 

[FergieTCat]

as a child I fully believed what my mom taught me-that the truck that played music and roamed the neighborhood sold................fish. to this day when we pass an ice cream truck dh sez 'look honey, it's the fishman'

I remember someone telling me (or maybe it was posted on the DIS) that her mother told her when the ice cream truck played music, it meant they were out of ice cream.

Loving this thread!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

My Dad told me that when you lose a tooth, if you don't stick your tongue in the hole, you'll grow a gold tooth. I never lasted very long.

 

[kamik86]

I was an extremely gullible child. Add to that not having many friends my own age (lived in an area with very few children as most of the neighborhood had teenagers when I was born) and having 3 teenage sisters to tell me stuff..

Some that I have been told about:
1) that the only black man I knew got that way from laying out in the son for WAAAY to long.
2) that my father could fix ANYTHING.
3) that my sister didn't know the way to grandma's apartment so I always had to lead
4) That I should go play in the road. (I forget why I was supposed to just that my sisters boyfriend told me to and I started to go... my sister had to stop me - boyfriend had a little brother but not as gullible of one)
5) That Santa, the Easter bunny, and all those other things were real until I was 10. (Note since I also started school young that meant I was in 6th grade before teachers finally figured we all knew now being in middleschool and made it really clear)

6) This one I realized faster as they didn't tell me until I was older and we all looked REALLY alike. But that my siblings and I were really the result of the milkman, mailman, paper boy, and a drunken stupor at Christmas time. (With me being the last one and thus the only one Dad actually claimed).

Now I know the first three are wrong... still not sure on the last one. My birthday is Sept 26th so the timing works.