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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Wanaca
Date: May 24, 2018, 8:14 am
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Chicken wings. To save money, my parents bought whole chickens
and cut them up. Neither of them liked the wings because they
were small, bony and not much meat. So when I was very young,
they told me that if I ate chicken wings, I'd grow wings and be
able to fly.
After the meal, I ran to my room to see if my wings were
sprouted. They patiently explained that it took a lot of
chicken wings before it happened. So for years, I called dibs
on the wings. I begged for them. And after each meal, I'd run
to look for my wings.
Embarrassingly, I was about 10 yrs old when I figured it out. I
didn't eat a chicken wing for many years after that. Even now,
when I eat wings, I think of my parents and smile.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: NFPwife
Date: May 24, 2018, 8:22 am
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My dad told us that Labor Day in the US was for manual labor
around your house/ yard. We did big projects every Labor Day and
it wasn't until I was 15 or 16 that I found out the true
meaning.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Girlie
Date: May 24, 2018, 8:47 am
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I got the old "it's illegal to drive with the interior car light
on." Now that I'm a driving adult, I like to say that it's not
illegal, it's just annoying.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: sandisadie
Date: May 28, 2018, 1:26 pm
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My Mother always told us she had eyes in the back of her head.
They also assured us that everyone who did anything bad would be
punished for it. I know we sure were! Also, if we went outside
with wet hair in cold weather we'd catch a cold
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Thitpualso
Date: May 28, 2018, 3:54 pm
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I remember that one too. It didn’t matter if it was the hottest
day of the year. If you went to bed with wet hair you’d catch
pneumonia (or polio) and die.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Pattycake
Date: May 28, 2018, 5:01 pm
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--- Quote from: sandisadie link ---
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> My Mother always told us she had eyes in the back of her
head. They also assured us that everyone who did anything bad
would be punished for it. I know we sure were! Also, if we
went outside with wet hair in cold weather we'd catch a cold
>
--- End Quote ---
My mom was sitting down one day and suddenly felt little fingers
on the back of her head, combing through her hair. "WHAT are you
doing?!" she asked my little brother. "Looking for the eyes..."
he said. Because she really did seem to have them, but what he
didn't know was that she could see his reflection in various
windows in the house!
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Moonie
Date: May 29, 2018, 9:41 pm
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My parents both grew up in the country, and their siblings still
lived there when we were young. We used to spend our summers in
the country with our cousins. My dad always told us that if we
licked the salt block for the cattle, we'd grow horns. I
believed him for the longest.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Gladly
Date: May 30, 2018, 3:04 am
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One of our dogs died when I was 2 or 3 years old. My mother
told me she had gone with Mr Pfaff, the vet who came to the
house to put her to sleep.
About 2 years later, I was with my mother when we took another
dog to the vet for something perfectly inocuous and routine.
Apparently I watched him like a hawk, and got really antsy when
he lifted the dog off the table in case he took that one away
too. Then I demanded to see Toffee, the dog who "had gone to
live with him"!
My mother says she learned a lesson that day, and never again
tried to hide uncomfortable news from us.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: ZekailleTasker
Date: June 8, 2018, 12:49 am
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If you swallow your gum a gum tree will grow in your stomach.
A lot of our pets got married and moved away. My parents lived
with my grandmother for several years and their dogs didn't get
along. Dad was the one who had to give up his dog since it was
his mother's house. I wanted to know what happened to our dog.
"Oh, she got married and moved out on her own."
My Uncle decided we needed pigs. He kept them in a pen out in
back of the house. My brother and I would run outside to visit
every day. There were two pigs and, I have no idea what their
gender was, but my brother and I figured they were male and
female. We called them Mr. and Mrs. Oink. One day Mr and Mrs
Oink, wouldn't you know, decided to strike out on their own,
eloped in the middle of the night, and were never seen again.
Neither my brother nor I connected the Oinks' elopement with the
man rashers of bacon, the chops and the pork loin that appeared
later on. It wasn't until I was in my late teens I looked at my
uncle in horror and said "I ate the Oinks?????"
My poor mother learned the hard way not to play on my sense of
fantasy. We were at the opening of the locks in Canada, I
believe. I was five and didn't see what the big deal was about
a boat being able to float "up" above the ground level. What I
wanted to know was: what is that pretty noise?
Every time the locks opened, the mechanism made a sound like
harp strings and singing. "who is singing?" I asked and asked
and asked.
Hoping to shut me up, Mom said "That's the mermaids singing."
For the next four hours a very angry little she demon screamed
and cried and carried on in the back seat of the family car
because she didn't get to see a mermaid and it wasn't fair! My
mother wished she could throw herself or me out of the car.
Then she made my father stop the car at the motel.
The motel was called "The Mermaid Inn" and thank heavens, there
was a statue of a mermaid out in front. She wasn't exactly
alive, but it shut five year old me up. As long as she lived,
Mom said she never knew what possessed her to tell me it was
mermaids singing and she was never so glad to see a statue in
her life.
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Re: Innocent Lies your Parents Told You.
DIR By: Get a looong little doggy
Date: June 16, 2018, 10:40 am
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--- Quote from: Timeforanap link ---
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> My father for some odd reason told us that it was unhealthy to
eat fish and drink milk at the same meal. Never explained why.
Had nothing to do with kosher rules as far as I know, unless it
was so far back in the mists of time it was lost to history.
Our mom thought it was nonsense too, and she was the
disciplinarian, so we would make a point of drinking milk with
our fish if we were feeling naughty.
>
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My mother pulled that on me too. I remember being 3 or 4 and
sitting in the kitchen alone because I refused to eat my fish
until I was given milk to drink. I just couldn't figure out why
my mother was being so mean to me and wouldn't let me have my
milk. For many many years, a meal just wasn't as enjoyable with
anything other than milk to drink with it. I've never been able
to eat anything without plenty of liquid to "wash" it down.
I think how it finally ended, my father gave me milk to drink so
I could finish my meal. I got the last laugh though, when I
started to school when I was 5, we were given a tiny milk bottle
to drink with our fish sticks at school! My mother never took my
milk away again!
She figured then that the old wives tale about fish and milk
wasn't true. Not that she didn't have many more old wives tales
up her sleeve...
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