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50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late

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Most of us have that moment, often later in life, when we realize that some tidbit of information our parents gave us was, in fact, entirely fabricated to achieve some outcome, distract us, or just create a little havoc.

So some netizens decided to ask the internet to share their best examples of white lies they discover later in life. Be sure to upvote your favorate examples and share your own stories in the comments section below. We also got in touch with Natasha Devon, a writer, presenter & mental health activist to learn a bit more about how kids perceive things.

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#1

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late When I was really young my mom used to tell me a red dot (only visible to moms) would appear on my forehead when I lied. I used to cover my forehead when lying. Well played mom.. well played.

SatansPetGoat , Monstera Report

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#2

When I was a kid my parents told me and my brother about the candy witch. She was a nice witch who came on Halloween night when you were sleeping and took most of your candy, but left a present in return. So my brother and I got to keep 10 pieces of candy and the rest went to the candy witch, and when we woke up we had awesome presents waiting for us. And that’s how my parents got to eat all our candy and prevented us from eating a s**t ton. Super smart and will be using on my own kids.

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#3

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late To be quiet when hunting mushrooms because they would go back into the ground. Was in my early 20s before I discovered it was a ruse to just get us to shut the hell up.

MethodMZA , cottonbro studio Report

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265points

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Bored Panda got in touch with mental health writer, presenter, and activist Natasha Devon to learn more about how a kid’s psyche develops and what influences it. “Our teenage years are such a crucial time in our development. There are the physical and hormonal changes we go through but there are all kinds of interesting things going on neurologically, too.”

“That’s why our experiences during this time tend to be magnified and imprinted on our minds in a way other time periods aren’t. I write young adult fiction (my debut novel, Toxic, which is set in a high school, was published last year and the sequel, Babushka, is out in October) and coming-of-age stories have a special resonance, I think. Even the most mundane happenings feel like an adventure.”

#4

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My grandma told us that smelling each other’s farts would give us enhanced strength and agility. Worst Christmas ever for us, funniest Christmas for her.

Donald_Keyman , cottonbro studio Report

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257points

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#5

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late We were on a road trip one summer and I asked my dad what the purpose of rumble strips was.

He told me they were for blind drivers.

anon , Eddy Silva Official Report

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253points

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#6

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My father always said the animals on the side of the road were just taking a nap because the road was warm.

Donald_Keyman , Esra Korkmaz Report

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235points

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Of course, realizing late that something was a white lie or even a more blatant lie can make an adult question a lot. We do tend to think the decision we make as teens have a lot of impact and generally these are decisions made with limited information, so we were curious to hear if our childhood choices really did have that much influence on our futures. “It’s weird how you can be completely different but also basically the same as you were in adolescence.”

“I work with teenagers in my day job (visiting schools and colleges and giving talks and doing research on mental health) and whilst they are definitely not the finished product and they’re going to try on several different identities before they find out who they are, you definitely get a sense of the essence of the person. You can see the building blocks they are working with.”

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#7

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late If we didn't brush our teeth before bed mice will climb into your mouth and eat the food between your teeth. That's why your mouth tastes gross in the morning when you don't brush, the mouse poops in there

canada_mike , Ketut Subiyanto Report

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#8

My son had a patch on his arm that was a hairy birthmark. I told him that he'd actually been born as a puppy and that gradually he turned into a boy. He lost his bark and used words instead, that he learned to walk on his back legs and to stop chewing bones and enjoy people food instead. The story was very elaborate, and then I dramatically grabbed his arm and pointed to the birthmark on his arm and declared this was the proof because it was the last bit of puppy skin left on him. He really believed it for a while and was delighted to have been a puppy.

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#9

My mom always told my brother and I that the car couldn’t work if we didn’t latch our seatbelts. She even faked a break down and pulled over on the side of the road when she caught us trying to sneakily unlatch to test her claim lol

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“When I hang out with the friends I made at school they know me in a way that friends I made more recently cannot. There is absolutely no BS because they understand the essence of me. I feel the same about them – They’re parents, now and have grown-up jobs. They have grown and flourished in so many ways, but their fundamental qualities haven’t changed.”

#10

Dad told me those were tomatoes he was growing in the basement. They were not tomatoes.

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#11

Toys R Us is closed when the R is backwards.

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#12

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late Those big rolls of hay on farms...my dad always told us they were elephant cocoons.

hornedgirl , Nikolett Emmert Report

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“Anyone who shaped our life journey is going to be interesting. First loves are always intriguing. That’s especially true if things didn’t end well. I think some people feel resentment if they imagine that their ex-partners are being a better version of themselves – one they potentially had a hand in creating – with new beaus! It’s also a way to imagine ‘What if’ – all those Sliding Doors moments where our life could have turned out differently.” she shared with Bored Panda.

#13

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late That if I kept hitting the horn in the car, it would run out of 'beeps' and we'd have to buy a new one and we couldn't afford that. I didn't know any different until I was 17 and learning to drive..

anon , Wavy_ revolution Report

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#14

My dad told my brother that growing in chest hairs is an excruciatingly painful process. Days later, as my brother walks past my dad in the living room, my dad clutches is chest and screams, "AAARRRGGHHHH! Another god damn chest hair!" Scared bro sh**less. He believed it until he grew in his own.

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#15

My mom said they only named hurricanes after girls otherwise they would be himicanes.

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Ultimately, understanding the past can bring peace and closure, as well as some degree of entertainment, but it’s not necessarily the key to unlocking something special in the present. In most of these cases, the real value was reminiscing on the clever, weird, or just a bit of fun. And if you want to hear more from Natasha Devon, you can find her book here, her website here, her Instagram here and you can listen to my LBC show every Saturday.

#16

My sister hated eating fish when she was little, so whenever my parents fed it to her they told her it was "aquatic chicken". universal thing.

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#17

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late That the mannequins in clothing stores were kids who didn't behave and were taken to the "dungeon" in the store. Where they would promptly be made into a mannequin...

r35h93 , Kitti Incédi Report

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157points

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#18

My parents when I was kid (starting from the time I was about 4), told me I was adopted from the zoo. Told my brothers and my entire family to tell me the same damn story. The reason they said this is because my tailbone sticks out farther than it should. (IT IS WEIRD. I KNOW IT. DONT MAKE FUN DAMN IT). So when my third grade teacher asked me to bring in a photo from where I was from. I moved to Florida from New york and I brought her a picture from one of the zoos up there. I explained the story about how my dad stole a monkey from the zoo. Cut off my tail just far enough so I became human.

Needless to say she called my parents and they then had to explain to me i wasnt adopted from the zoo.

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154points

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#19

I was born with a full head of hair and my mom said that she knew I would have lots of hair because she would cough up hairballs while she was pregnant. It took until high school anatomy class for me to realize there is not a direct connection from your uterus to your throat. Also women don't cough up hairballs

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153points

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#20

My parents got divorced somewhat early on, so my mom spent years being a single mother with four kids. Unsurprisingly, we were poor and didn't have dessert all that much. When she would be able to bake a cake, we were forbidden to run or jump in the house because that would make the cake "fall" and be ruined. Of course we weren't willing to mess that up, so we would be quiet for an hour - which was exactly the intention.

Only somewhat ashamed to admit, I was in my early twenties, relaying this "fact" to my girlfriend, when it hit me what she had done.

middleagedkid Report

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#21

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My parents told me I had to tell the mailbox where a letter was going or else it wouldn't get there.

They would watch and laugh as 5 year old me would talk to the big blue mailboxes.

Dang_it_KK , Sergey Platonov Report

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#22

My dad told me my goldfish ran away.

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137points

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#23

My parents used to set the clocks back on New Years Eve. For years we thought it was a special treat to stay up until "midnight" to ring in the new year, when really it was only 9 o'clock. I never saw the Times Square ball drop until I was 16!

sessnight Report

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#24

That the German for windscreen wiper was Flippenfloppenschmerenmachinen. It was a April fool that was believed for about 6 months

twovectors Report

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#25

When I was little (think six or seven) I was terrified of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. It just so happened to be one of my dad's favorites. So, to help my sister and I get over our fears, he used some positive reinforcement. Every time we got on the ride, we would find a silver dollar next to us. Dad said the pirates had given us some of their treasure. It took me an embarrassingly long time to put two and two together. I thought every kid got treasure.

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112points

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#26

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late When i was really young, my mum would unplug the bath and told me if i didn't get out before all the water had drained, i would get sucked down and have to live in the sewers...

User261 , cottonbro studio Report

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111points

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#27

If I misbehaved, Michael Jordan would retire. I remember so vividly the first time he retired. Then I did everything they told me and he came back out of retirement.

nursejoe74 Report

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110points

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#28

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My dad told me that kiwi fruit was actually monkey eggs.

This led to a bunch of rotten fruit under my bed.

DoctorStein , Any Lane Report

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110points

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#29

In order to get me to stop sucking my thumb when I was really young, my mom told me that if I kept on doing that it would turn red, then purple, and then fall off. I ignored her warning and kept on doing it. One night when I was sleeping, my mom dyed my thumbs red. I woke up freaking out but quickly resumed sucking my thumb. The next night she dyed it purple. I freaked out so bad I never sucked on it again.

ladypau29 Report

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107points

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#30

One New Year's Eve when our daughter was about five, she decided that she wanted to stay up until midnight. By 9pm, she was overly tired and generally foul. By 9:30, we had enough. We explained to her that since her dad is Swedish, we celebrated Swedish New Year. Which we conveniently decided took place at 10pm. We all made it to bed by 10:30. For the next few years, we celebrated "Swedish New Year" until she was old enough to put the pieces together and realize that she had been lied to.

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98points

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#31

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late When I was little I badgered my mom to look at something while she was otherwise occupied and she said "I am looking, I have eyes in the back of my head." For years after that I suspiciously examined the back of her head trying to find those hidden eyes.

cosmic_potato , Ron Lach Report

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95points

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#32

If I went outside without telling them where I was going, elves would kidnap me and only let me eat brocoli.

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90points

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#33

As a way to get me to eat my crust when I was younger, my parents told me that eating it would make me whistle. Unfortunately, I believed this until I was 15 because I’m a dumbass.

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#34

When I was a kid I asked my mom what the word was for a female's private parts, and she told me it was "vagola". And then one day we were at a Thanksgiving dinner and my mom was being mean to me in front of my family, so I wanted to get back at her and yell something very inappropriate. Lets just say my family was very confused when I angrily yelled "VAGOLA!!!" to my mom at the dinner table.

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89points

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#35

When my siblings and I were younger my parents would sometimes (usually weekend mornings) lock their bedroom door.

One of us would almost always want to just come in and say what's up, but they would tell us through the door that they were in there talking about "Christmas presents."

Be it June, August, s**t even January, it didn't matter - That was the go to excuse since it worked. They played our asses.

Anyways, now all grown up, we kind of figured it out and it has become a punchline for our family now.

"Hey dad, did you get mom a good birthday gift? Hoping to have some serious discussions regarding our Christmas presents?"

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87points

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#36

When I was little, my mom told me that, if I touched a caterpillar, my head would swell to twice it's size. She got my older sister to confirm it as well, saying she saw it on the news. I believed this without question until I was 17 and my friend went to pick up a caterpillar. I said, "Don't! Your head will swell." As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I realized how stupid I was.

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#37

My father didn't actively try but I was convinced that he knew everything. When I asked stupid kid questions like 'why is the sky blue?' or 'how does the sun shine?' he would whip out this long as ELI5-ish scientific explainations about them. If he didn't know he would change the subject, research it later and then would tell me. He f-ed up when he was in a bad mood. I was 6 maybe 7 and asking a generic question like 'what are we having for lunch?' It was the first time I've heard him say 'I don't know' and I was so shocked. I even exclaimed 'But Dad you know everything!' I was 100% convinced that he was omniscient and he could have kept that illusion for so much longer :( Still. Good job, dad, good job...

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79points

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#38

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My mom would tell me there were bugs in my nose when I had a cold to make sure I blew my nose.

App13hat , cottonbro studio Report

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71points

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#39

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late I had 7 ~~younger~~ brothers, which kept sliding down the staires and they all died.

I never slided down a stair. S**t is dangerous

LangesHolz , Ksenia Chernaya Report

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71points

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#40

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My mom once told me that while she was reading at the beach a severed hand washed up onto her foot. I was horrified for YEARS until one day I brought it up and she said "Oh, I wasn't serious." No life lesson involved, just some mom f**kery.

RUGoin2TheMallLater , Craig Cameron Report

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70points

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#41

My mom told me if I made weird faces, my face would get stuck that way.

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70points

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#42

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late That orangutan was pronounced "Orange-newton".

janeyk , Yan Krukau Report

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#43

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late My mom told me that if I was a pack rat, that meant actual rats would come and make nests in my things.

(I was about 7, and had been tossing toys and clothes behind a little couch in my room as a method of cleaning. After she told me about what being a pack rat meant, I tearfully knelt on the couch with a bent wire coat hanger, fishing things out, terrified of rats.)

StakeMeOutTonight , Mikhail Nilov Report

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61points

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#44

Bread crust is the healthiest part of bread so I had to eat it. I was like 25 when I figured that one out.

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61points

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#45

50 Weirdest Lies Told By Parents That People Caught On To Way Too Late If you break a pinky promise your pinky will melt off over night

MimicDeezNutz , Ron Lach Report

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58points

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#46

They said if anyone poked my bellybutton my butt would fall off, so whenever a family member would tickle me or try to poke my bellybutton I would cry and run away.

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55points

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#47

Mess up in school and it will stay on your permanent record. That's the weirdest lie told to me by my parents.

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#48

When asking what "Ped Crossing" meant on street signs, my parents told my sister and I that Peds were 2 headed dog beasts that were incredibly violent. They then proceeded to tell us vivid stories of their close encounters with these beasts and their narrow escape from death. Needless to say, my teachers in school were quite confused when I tried to explain my fear of Peds.

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#49

If you don't eat your vegetables, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will die.

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49points

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#50

My mom used to say: If I didn't cover my mouth while yawning, a bug would crawl into it. As stupid as that sounds, I still cover my mouth to this day. I hate bugs.

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Justin Sandberg

I am a writer at Bored Panda. Despite being born in the US, I ended up spending most of my life in Europe, from Latvia, Austria, and Georgia to finally settling in Lithuania. At Bored Panda, you’ll find me covering topics ranging from the cat meme of the day to red flags in the workplace and really anything else. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, beating other people at board games, cooking, good books, and bad films.

I am a writer at Bored Panda. Despite being born in the US, I ended up spending most of my life in Europe, from Latvia, Austria, and Georgia to finally settling in Lithuania. At Bored Panda, you’ll find me covering topics ranging from the cat meme of the day to red flags in the workplace and really anything else. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, beating other people at board games, cooking, good books, and bad films.

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I'm a Visual Editor at Bored Panda, crafting captivating visual content to enhance every reader's experience. Sometimes my mornings are spent diving into juicy dramas, while afternoons are all about adding extra laughs to the world by editing the funniest memes around. My favorite part of the job? Choosing the perfect images to illustrate articles. It's like imagining a story as a movie in my mind and selecting the key shots to tell the story visually.

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Monday 1 year ago

Feeling inspired I messaged my mom to ask what had actually happened to the bunny they "took to the farm" when I was like 8 or 9. I figured out as a teenager that "going to the farm" meant pet death but never really asked how he died. Turns out he actually did go to a farm. A local petting zoo type place actually. I spent my childhood believing the truth and convinced myself of a lie in my adulthood xD

18points

glowworm2 1 year ago

Aw! I love that this one was actually true and the bunny lived a good life there.

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Taryn Pirelli 1 year ago

Or. OR....is this the long con? O.o

4points

Noname 1 year ago

I am sorry for your loss. However.... My 1st year living in France, I learned that church bells bring the baskets of goodies for children, not rabbits, which was OK by me because I appreciate other cultural traditions, until I passed by a chocolatier (chocolate shop) and in the window there was a beautiful Tour Eiffel recreated entirely in chocolate with a rabbits head skewered on it. The trauma for me was real and I've never quite recovered.

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JerriAdair 1 year ago

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

Not my story, but my dad knew a guy who got skin cancer and had to have his nose removed. Supposedly he was at the supermarket one day and had forgotten to wear his prosthetic, and some little kid kept staring at him until the mother noticed and said "that's what happens if you pick your nose!" Friend apparently thought it was hilarious.

13points

Mike Crow 1 year ago

I used to tell my kids that Halloween chocolate evaporates during the night and that is why every morning there was less than the night before.

13points

Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 1 year ago

If the ice-cream van is playing its chimes ,it means they've run out and don't have any left. :(

8points

Debbie 1 year ago

I told my kids that in our neighbourhood it was the guy who collects metal playing the sound. So they never ran out... I think I told the truth this year or last year as I wanted an ice cream myself...

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HistoryLover(she/her) 1 year ago

There’s a white van that claims it’s an ice cream truck in my neighborhood. There is no music, no logo on the side, and a creepy guy who drives it. My sister and I both understood that we are not to go near that van without being told.

1point

Florence O'Grady 1 year ago

That's mean. Our aunt would just tell us she didn't have the money or just no. Not every time but every now and then we got something. But we usually had ice cream for dessert, after supper.

0points

witchling 1 year ago

My kids couldn't go with us to Jamaica because there was a sneaky group of people who'd go around and steal the big toes from visiting kids to make 'kid toe soup'. Don't judge me. My kids were/ are brilliant negotiators and I need something to set them on the back foot. It was funny enough that they weren't horrified and they still tease me about it to this day. And they've been to Jamaica as adults since. Yes they have all their toes.

7points

Petra Schaap 1 year ago

when i was 6 my mom told me the first day of the new school year, a monday, all the moms were so happy that all the kids went to school again, they would activate all the emergency sirens at noon. LO AND BEHOLD! (yes, the Netherlands is one of those countries that test the emergency sirens every first monday of the month....) i was so impressed :-D

5points

Peppy 1 year ago

I have half siblings that are 9/10 years older than me, they convinced me that sheep were called camels, yep my first teacher had a hard time convincing me this wasn’t true 🐪

5points

Taryn Pirelli 1 year ago (edited)

That my mom had a receipt to the hospital and could take us back if we were bad.

4points

María Hermida 1 year ago

That's cruel!

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

My dad used to scare the s**t out of me with the thumb trick. He was absurdly good at it. I really thought he was pulling off his thumb.

4points

SnackbarKaat 1 year ago

At the zoo as a toddler, my dad told me the crocodiles escaped. I was terrified! Oh he also told my cousin he was going to eat her pet rabbits. He was named 'uncle poison' for a good reason.

4points

Dan St John 1 year ago

The biggest lie ever told by a parent, the 2020 election was a fraud.

3points

Marilyn 1 year ago

When I was just shy of 3 and left in the yard by my older brother and sister and my three cousins while they went to the creek I found an irrigation pump and stuck my hand in the v-belt and lost 1/4 of my middle finger. Well long story short, when I would see a little kid picking their nose I would show them my finger and they would ask what happened and I would tell them that I used to pick my nose and one day a booger bit it off. I would tell my three boys that also and surprise they quit picking theirs. I know of a few kids that quit doing it to.

2points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

Am I the only one who was disturbed about the OP losing 7 siblings?

2points

María Hermida 1 year ago

The parents told her that to prevent her from sliding down the stairs. It was a lie. She didn't have seven siblings.

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Noname 1 year ago

We're Catholic, and until the 80s, my family respected the meatless Fridays and either ate fish or vegetarian meals. My eldest sister hated fish and any kind of seafood, so my exasperated mom tried making scallops, which my sister loved. Technically, it's not fish, but my sister didn't know it was a sea creature. She was in her 20s before learning what a scallop is. And I'm the disappointment in my family....

2points

Bubs623 1 year ago

My husband convinced my kids that if they let his sister, who is a nun, kiss them, they would grow up and become a priest/nun. It was strictly for his own amusement to watch his super naive but very determined sister chase our kids to "just let me give you a hug and kiss!" while my kids were screaming bloody murder and running away. they thought being a priest / nun was the worst thing possible. I over heard my daughter (last week!) whisper to her toddler to stay away from Aunt Sally....

2points

HistoryLover(she/her) 1 year ago

My parents told me the sink in my bedroom didn’t work(the previous owners put it in). I believed it until I was 12 and my parents allowed me to use the sink.

1point

Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago

Me and my husband, along with some other family members, had my son absolutely convinced that everything before 1950 was in black and white. I am not sure if he still believes it or not. he is 10 now.

0points

Natalie Westby 1 year ago

My mom used to tell me that I was related to almost all the boys in my high school. My high school is predominantly black and really small, as was our hometown. We had a handful white and Hispanic students too. Anyways, I figured out later that my mom had lied to me so that I'd avoid boys!

0points

Cathy Mitchell 1 year ago

To get him to run himself tired, I told my 3 year old grandson that the blue veins in your wrist was energy and when you were out it turned green (only I could see the color change because I have special Memaw eyes. He's 7 now and still will show me his wrist and asks if he has enough energy left to play. When it is close to bed time or time to stay quiet, I'd tell him it's green and he gets ready for bed.

0points

Livingwithcfs 1 year ago

My father had me convinced for years he was 29 and mum was 60. I was about 10 when the penny finally dropped

0points

Monday 1 year ago

Feeling inspired I messaged my mom to ask what had actually happened to the bunny they "took to the farm" when I was like 8 or 9. I figured out as a teenager that "going to the farm" meant pet death but never really asked how he died. Turns out he actually did go to a farm. A local petting zoo type place actually. I spent my childhood believing the truth and convinced myself of a lie in my adulthood xD

18points

glowworm2 1 year ago

Aw! I love that this one was actually true and the bunny lived a good life there.

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Taryn Pirelli 1 year ago

Or. OR....is this the long con? O.o

4points

Noname 1 year ago

I am sorry for your loss. However.... My 1st year living in France, I learned that church bells bring the baskets of goodies for children, not rabbits, which was OK by me because I appreciate other cultural traditions, until I passed by a chocolatier (chocolate shop) and in the window there was a beautiful Tour Eiffel recreated entirely in chocolate with a rabbits head skewered on it. The trauma for me was real and I've never quite recovered.

2points

JerriAdair 1 year ago

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

Not my story, but my dad knew a guy who got skin cancer and had to have his nose removed. Supposedly he was at the supermarket one day and had forgotten to wear his prosthetic, and some little kid kept staring at him until the mother noticed and said "that's what happens if you pick your nose!" Friend apparently thought it was hilarious.

13points

Mike Crow 1 year ago

I used to tell my kids that Halloween chocolate evaporates during the night and that is why every morning there was less than the night before.

13points

Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 1 year ago

If the ice-cream van is playing its chimes ,it means they've run out and don't have any left. :(

8points

Debbie 1 year ago

I told my kids that in our neighbourhood it was the guy who collects metal playing the sound. So they never ran out... I think I told the truth this year or last year as I wanted an ice cream myself...

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HistoryLover(she/her) 1 year ago

There’s a white van that claims it’s an ice cream truck in my neighborhood. There is no music, no logo on the side, and a creepy guy who drives it. My sister and I both understood that we are not to go near that van without being told.

1point

Florence O'Grady 1 year ago

That's mean. Our aunt would just tell us she didn't have the money or just no. Not every time but every now and then we got something. But we usually had ice cream for dessert, after supper.

0points

witchling 1 year ago

My kids couldn't go with us to Jamaica because there was a sneaky group of people who'd go around and steal the big toes from visiting kids to make 'kid toe soup'. Don't judge me. My kids were/ are brilliant negotiators and I need something to set them on the back foot. It was funny enough that they weren't horrified and they still tease me about it to this day. And they've been to Jamaica as adults since. Yes they have all their toes.

7points

Petra Schaap 1 year ago

when i was 6 my mom told me the first day of the new school year, a monday, all the moms were so happy that all the kids went to school again, they would activate all the emergency sirens at noon. LO AND BEHOLD! (yes, the Netherlands is one of those countries that test the emergency sirens every first monday of the month....) i was so impressed :-D

5points

Peppy 1 year ago

I have half siblings that are 9/10 years older than me, they convinced me that sheep were called camels, yep my first teacher had a hard time convincing me this wasn’t true 🐪

5points

Taryn Pirelli 1 year ago (edited)

That my mom had a receipt to the hospital and could take us back if we were bad.

4points

María Hermida 1 year ago

That's cruel!

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

My dad used to scare the s**t out of me with the thumb trick. He was absurdly good at it. I really thought he was pulling off his thumb.

4points

SnackbarKaat 1 year ago

At the zoo as a toddler, my dad told me the crocodiles escaped. I was terrified! Oh he also told my cousin he was going to eat her pet rabbits. He was named 'uncle poison' for a good reason.

4points

Dan St John 1 year ago

The biggest lie ever told by a parent, the 2020 election was a fraud.

3points

Marilyn 1 year ago

When I was just shy of 3 and left in the yard by my older brother and sister and my three cousins while they went to the creek I found an irrigation pump and stuck my hand in the v-belt and lost 1/4 of my middle finger. Well long story short, when I would see a little kid picking their nose I would show them my finger and they would ask what happened and I would tell them that I used to pick my nose and one day a booger bit it off. I would tell my three boys that also and surprise they quit picking theirs. I know of a few kids that quit doing it to.

2points

Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 1 year ago

Am I the only one who was disturbed about the OP losing 7 siblings?

2points

María Hermida 1 year ago

The parents told her that to prevent her from sliding down the stairs. It was a lie. She didn't have seven siblings.

1point

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Noname 1 year ago

We're Catholic, and until the 80s, my family respected the meatless Fridays and either ate fish or vegetarian meals. My eldest sister hated fish and any kind of seafood, so my exasperated mom tried making scallops, which my sister loved. Technically, it's not fish, but my sister didn't know it was a sea creature. She was in her 20s before learning what a scallop is. And I'm the disappointment in my family....

2points

Bubs623 1 year ago

My husband convinced my kids that if they let his sister, who is a nun, kiss them, they would grow up and become a priest/nun. It was strictly for his own amusement to watch his super naive but very determined sister chase our kids to "just let me give you a hug and kiss!" while my kids were screaming bloody murder and running away. they thought being a priest / nun was the worst thing possible. I over heard my daughter (last week!) whisper to her toddler to stay away from Aunt Sally....

2points

HistoryLover(she/her) 1 year ago

My parents told me the sink in my bedroom didn’t work(the previous owners put it in). I believed it until I was 12 and my parents allowed me to use the sink.

1point

Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago

Me and my husband, along with some other family members, had my son absolutely convinced that everything before 1950 was in black and white. I am not sure if he still believes it or not. he is 10 now.

0points

Natalie Westby 1 year ago

My mom used to tell me that I was related to almost all the boys in my high school. My high school is predominantly black and really small, as was our hometown. We had a handful white and Hispanic students too. Anyways, I figured out later that my mom had lied to me so that I'd avoid boys!

0points

Cathy Mitchell 1 year ago

To get him to run himself tired, I told my 3 year old grandson that the blue veins in your wrist was energy and when you were out it turned green (only I could see the color change because I have special Memaw eyes. He's 7 now and still will show me his wrist and asks if he has enough energy left to play. When it is close to bed time or time to stay quiet, I'd tell him it's green and he gets ready for bed.

0points

Livingwithcfs 1 year ago

My father had me convinced for years he was 29 and mum was 60. I was about 10 when the penny finally dropped

0points

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