Funny things we were told as kids... and believed!

[Nikkinoonoo]

Well I'm sure we have all been told funny things by grown ups when we were kids that we truely believed. It's only now we wonder why. What's yours?

My mum told me that the pimples you get on your tongue were infact "lie pimples" and you got them whenever you told a fib.

I was also told that if I dried my belly button after my bath and 'screwed' it the wrong way when drying my bum would fall off.

 

[Pyrrhic]

*If you told a lie your tongue would turn balck

*If you made a face and the wind changed it would stick like that

*If I kept being a bossy boots I'd turn into a pair of wellies.

*If you pick your nose your finger will get stuck

I was a gullible kid.

 

[Linzi]

My mum told me if you didn't stand sensibly on escalators then they would eat you.

Im still not so good with them these days

xxx

 

[Tilly]

lmao Linzi thats classic.

That if I took too long on the loo, the toilet monster would get me

The wind will make my face stay that way

My mum was just "looking after the presents for Santa" lol

 

[princess_bump]

not really mine but my granddad (who's now 88yrs) told my mum when she was little a bad scar on his arm was where he was shot with a bow and arrow, she believed him for years and even wrote about it at school
My mum also told me she used to date Richard gear, i believed that too

 

[todteach]

When I misbehaved my mom told me she would sell me to the gypsies..... A little girl joined my class in grade 2. Informed us that her parents were gypsies...........i never spoke to her. Boy was I scared, these must be the people that mom is going to sell me to.

 

[babezone]

i used to belive the face changing in the wind one lol....and my oh mate dad told him that wen he went to school they cudnt afford shoed so he wud paint his feet black lmao and oh m8 belived him lol x

 

[Vickie]

When I misbehaved my mom told me she would sell me to the gypsies..... A little girl joined my class in grade 2. Informed us that her parents were gypsies...........i never spoke to her. Boy was I scared, these must be the people that mom is going to sell me to.

 

[mer01]

my grandad once told me that cooling towers were full of lemonade, only found out it was a big fat LIE when i mentioned it to my ex when i was 16 lol
he pi@@ed himself

 

[Mamafy]

When I misbehaved my mom told me she would sell me to the gypsies..... A little girl joined my class in grade 2. Informed us that her parents were gypsies...........i never spoke to her. Boy was I scared, these must be the people that mom is going to sell me to.

 

[alice&bump]

lol my mum was always told to be scared of the gypsies curse. she's still scared now and paid some gypsy woman whoknocked on the door 20odd quid for a shitty tablecloth that she has to pass down the family cos she was so scared!!

a mate's dad believed til he was about 16 that storks delivered babies - all his brothers and sisters were adopted, so there was no being pregnant or anythin!!

 

[x_Rainbow_x]

my sister told me if you put your feet on the plug hole it will suck you down.. i refused 2 empty a bath untill i was 14!!

she also used 2 chase me with a hoover pipe and tell me she would suck me up...

me like a idiot believed her

 

[polo_princess]

I was sooooo gullible as a child i believed anything ..

"If you dont wash behind your ears, potatoes will grow"

"If you dont eat your crusts on your bread your hair wont go curly"

"Peas are actually turtle poops" (I wouldnt eat peas until i was about 14!!)

"If you swallow chewing gum your insides will stick together"

I just noticed pretty much all of mine are food related in some way, no wonder i was such a fussy eater as a child, my mum brought it all on herself

 

[cupcake]

dont ever go to sleep with wet hair or your face will go funny ( dont know where this one came from..)
if u swim in the pool just after u eat you could drown ( well there may be some truth to this..)
if you sit too close to the tv your eyes will go square ( right...)
drinking sugar soda in the morning is very bad for you ( lol its bad for you all the time!)

 

[Uvlollypop]

if the ice cream man plays his tune it means hes run out!

 

[Reedy]

My dad told me & my sister that when he was a kid he lived in a shoe box & before that a paper bag & we believed him

 

[Serene123]

Crusts make your hair curley, and having curley hair when I was younger, I never ate crusts. Just starting to eat them again now!!

I still can't take the plug out in the bath when I'm in there incase I get sucked down..

Wind will blow and face wll stay like that.

If you don't go to sleep the boogey man will get you! Didn't sleep without the light on untill I was 15!!

 

[Uvlollypop]

Crusts make your hair curley, and having curley hair when I was younger, I never ate crusts. Just starting to eat them again now!!

I still can't take the plug out in the bath when I'm in there incase I get sucked down..

Wind will blow and face wll stay like that.

If you don't go to sleep the boogey man will get you! Didn't sleep without the light on untill I was 15!!

i got told the plug thing too and even now get out before i take the plug
out

parents aye do their best to mentally scar us!

 

[mummy2four]

if the ice cream man plays his tune it means hes run out!

I tell that to my 7 yr old now about the ice cream man may av something to do with the fact he comes round 4 times a day and he wants one evry time

My mum use to tell me that if you mess with egg shell you will get warts to this day im still weary of egg shells and ask DH to peel em

 

[charveyron]

if you picked your nose your eyeballs would fall out!!!