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Post by iheartseverus on Jul 13, 2016 18:59:19 GMT -5
Other the usuals--Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, what grown-ups lies did you believe as a little kid? Whether it was to get you to eat your vegetables, or go to bed on time, or behave in a restaurant, or whatever, we all heard all sorts of injunctions designed to modify our behavior.
My friends and I used to sit on the front steps of the house in the evenings, until I was told that sitting on concrete for an extended length of time would give me hemorrhoids. I didn't know what that meant but when I heard the explanation (something really gross and embarrassing to do with butts, as I recalled back then), that ended our evenings sitting on the front steps!
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Post by izzue on Jul 13, 2016 20:55:15 GMT -5
If you eat the crusts of your bread, it'll make your hair curly. My mother got lots of mileage out of that one. When my brother told me, though, that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, one would start growing out of my ear, I was pretty suspicious (but was still careful to spit out the seeds, just in case he was right).
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Post by moiaf on Jul 14, 2016 7:11:08 GMT -5
This is a good one: If someone sweeps your feet with a broom you'll become a spinster. I use to laugh at that when I was a kid and have people sweep my feet while my friends looked on horrified. Well, it sort of worked 'cause I'm still not married but that's totally by choice.
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Post by Nezzer on Jul 14, 2016 7:36:24 GMT -5
My family probably told me some, but I don't remember any. I don't remember ever believing in Santa Claus, or the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy or even God, it's weird.
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Post by khaella on Jul 15, 2016 10:00:01 GMT -5
iheartseverus, so cold concrete doesn't give you hemorrhoids? I was told the same thing and I still clearly believe it lol. It doesn't stop me from sitting on it and I haven't gotten them yet, so that should have given me my answer izzue, I firmly believed that my hair had gotten curly after my first haircut because of all the bread crust I ate. My mom loved to tell me "stories". She had me convinced that they filmed The Wizard of Oz in my town (I live in Ohio, not a lot of things get filmed here). The town that I grew up in had a lot of brick roads that were mostly red, but there was one that was yellow and ran by an old building. We were driving through town one day and I asked her if this road was the Yellow Brick Road, to which she quickly replied "yes". I was SOO excited that I told all of my friends immediately! Luckily, they were as young and silly as I was There are a lot of these things around me: My mom told me that they were "cloud makers" (I still call them that because I don't know what they are actually called. I should probably know this lol). One day in kindergarten my teacher was showing a group of us pictures of subways, trains, and other things which I had gotten all correct. Then she shows us a picture like the one above, my hand shot up and I proudly say "cloud makers!". Needless to say everyone thought that it was hilarious and of course I was wrong. I got told a lot if I pouted a bird would poop on my lip and if I had a mean or weird look on my face it would get stuck like that. I figured out the last one was a lie quickly since my face was never frozen while smiling. I don't ever really remember believing in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy which stinks because I love all of that stuff.
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Post by iheartseverus on Jul 15, 2016 10:05:19 GMT -5
I got told a lot if I pouted a bird would poop on my lip HAHAHAHAHA, good one!
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Post by izzue on Jul 15, 2016 11:59:50 GMT -5
Nezzer - I was thinking that at least you didn't get 'set up' for being devastated when you found out the truth about all those imaginary beings! khaella, I'd forgotten, but I was also told that my face would freeze that way if I had a nasty look on it. I don't think I cared, though (I could be a unruly child at times, and I wasn't willing to give that up!)
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Post by Lady Sansa's Direwolf on Jul 19, 2016 12:39:50 GMT -5
My grandmother had heard an old wives' tale that if you cut curly hair with scissors it wouldn't curl anymore. Since I was as curly as Annie, my hair was singed off by matches from the age of two until six, when I rebelled and threatened to never cut my hair again.
Also, the ever popular "Step on a crack, break your mother's back." And if you swallowed too much chewing gum, it would stick your insides together.
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Post by katjushka on Jul 19, 2016 14:41:56 GMT -5
iheartseverus, so cold concrete doesn't give you hemorrhoids? I was told the same thing and I still clearly believe it lol. It doesn't stop me from sitting on it and I haven't gotten them yet, so that should have given me my answer Sitting on cold rocks/concrete gives you UTI, not hemorrhoids, silly you. Or that's what I was always told
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Post by Lady Sansa's Direwolf on Jul 19, 2016 14:50:42 GMT -5
iheartseverus, so cold concrete doesn't give you hemorrhoids? I was told the same thing and I still clearly believe it lol. It doesn't stop me from sitting on it and I haven't gotten them yet, so that should have given me my answer Sitting on cold rocks/concrete gives you UTI, not hemorrhoids, silly you. Or that's what I was always told No, riding a boy's bicycle or swimming in a creek will give you a UTI. Sitting on cold rocks makes you constipated.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 15:59:10 GMT -5
If the wind changes while you're making a face, your face will stay like that forever.
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Post by iheartseverus on Jul 19, 2016 20:45:13 GMT -5
I attended a very strict Catholic school as a little kid. The nuns warned us about all sorts of useful stuff--like, never eat at a table with a white tablecloth because it reminds boys of sheets. And, the best--don't wear patent leather shoes because in their reflection, the boys can see up your skirt.
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Post by khaella on Jul 21, 2016 16:20:15 GMT -5
katjushka, Lady Sansa's Direwolf, AH! Thanks for the warnings, you may have saved me I remember being mad at my mom for something silly and stomping on all of the cracks that I could find lol. I love hearing old wives tales, they are the best! My favorite, which always seems to come true is when the cows are laying in the field it will rain. Or maybe I just notice cows when it's raining. iheartseverus, I've heard about the patent leather shoes, but I cannot say that I have heard the white table cloth one! Nuns scare me, but I might tell my daughter that one. She will probably just roll her eyes and give a snide remark though. I just don't know where her attitude comes from
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Post by mandzipop on Jul 22, 2016 18:30:47 GMT -5
Mum always said that eating carrots made you see better in the dark. If you bang your head, you need to have butter rubbed into it and the pain will miraculously go away. And it did. I know it doesn't actually do anything, so it must be a psychosomatic thing. I was told that if I kissed boys my teeth would fall out. If I didn't eat meat I'd get a hairy chest. Being a girl, I didn't want a hairy chest. But I still wouldn't touch the stuff. I still don't like it and thirty odd years later, I do not have a hairy chest. I used to have to pass Thornton's chocolate factory on my way to school and she said that Willy Wonka that really owned it and that he lived in the old farm house next to it. The pollution used to smell awesome.
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Post by Lovely Lyanna on Jul 30, 2016 0:41:26 GMT -5
As a kid I asked my mother what a prostitute was. She looked sort of horrified and said it was a woman that slept with men for money. I remember thinking that was a great way to make money. You could just go to sleepovers with your sleeping bag, your toothbrush and pajamas and make lots of money.
I have a friend that asked her mother what a prostitute was and her mother said it was a woman that kept a dirty house. My friend thought that meant she was just a really bad housekeeper.
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