What fibs did your parents tell you when you were little which you really believed at the time and later realised were false....

A classic one was when they used to tell me not to make silly faces as my face would be stuck like that forever when a breeze went past.

I wrote a letter to santa when i was little and left it on the window sill a few nights before christmas. I looked there the next morning and it was gone. I later (years later) discovered the letter stuffed the cupboard in the spare room

I swear i spoke to santa in the north pole on the phone when i was little...turned out to be a family friend

I was told i'd muscle up if i ate spinach when i was little...too much watching popeye the sailor man.


......God i was gullible!! Share some of your stories..

I remember when I was little...a bomb went off in Manchester city centre (I live in Manchester), so I wouldn't go to town for months and months cause I was scared, so my mum and Dad got me to go back cause they told me they were taking me to the twin town of Manchester, so we were there in Manchester shopping, me being about 6 and thinking I was in this twin town telling all the shop assistants that their shop is exactly the same as the one in Manchester. They only told me about a year later. Its funny now when I think about it.

Haha...awww that's so schweeeet

Thunderstorms - God moving his furniture
Splinters - will give you grangrene if not taken out.
Never put new shoes on the table
Emeralds really came from Ireland
Had to be in bed before a certain time, if you overlapped santa clause won't come.
Chewing Gum - Don't swallow or it'll stick to you insides
Apple Cores - never eat the seeds

My upbringing was nuts!

She would kill me if she knew I'd posted this but...whenever my Mum used to fart she would claim it was the door creaking, and I actually believed her!!!

if you ate the crusts on your bread it made your hair curl,when it thundered and lightened my mam used to put everything metal away,cover mirrors,open the front and back doors and every window(so the lightening went through the house !!)and we had to sit on the stairs till had gone!!i still take the tv airiel out now!!

My dad used to turn me round 3 times, pat bme on the head and say "irmish skirmish" to make me invisible!! He must have had a signal for whrn my mum came into the room, cos she used to say "where's she gone?" when she came in. I used to walk about for ages playing "invisible tricks" on my mum and dad. I vividly remember waving a little jug about in front of mum thinking that she couldn't see me! Finding out the truth about santa or the tooth fairy didn't come close to my invisibilty... I was gutted!

I had all the shoes on the table, thunder being god etc, also if you did'nt wash your ears properly they would grow spuds, and if I had a cut they would say "oh it'll be a pigs foot in the morning"!!!

I used a great one on my kids, they were always puzzled how I knew when they were telling fib's, so I told themj that when they lied a little bell rang in my head, and that this bell grows when your pregnant so that you will always know when your children are fibbing. My Son was his own worse enemy coz he's tell me things and then say is there a bell ringing in your head, and give himself away. i only confessed years later and they both said they had believed me.

If you don't get off an escalator in time you'll get sucked into it. (I still get off them as fast as possible now)

If I didn't get out the bath as soon as Mum pulled the plug I'd go down the plug hole.

If you swallow bubble gum your bum cheeks will stick together

I also believed that if I comitted any kind of crime no matter how small, I'd be sent to prison for 100 years.

When i was like 5 and my dad used to take me to bed, he'd tap my nose and say "iskidon iskidon iskidon kadoo" and aparently that stopped me having nightmares and made me sleep all night without wakeing up(cos i was scared of the house when it was dark)!
Hmmmmm dont think that was quite true lol

when i was about 5 my parent's told me i was born with a vest on,and i believed it for year's lol.

I love this thread!

When we wouldn't do as we were told my Dad used to pretend to phone the childrens home to see if they would come and take us away.

My Dad also let me continue to believe that the whole world was in black and white when he was a kid when I found a black and white photo of him.

My mum used to tell me that if you didn't dry between your toes (afetr swimming) that you would end up with webbed feet.

Ace thread!!

As well as being told thunder meant god was moving his furniture around I was also told that when it rained it was god flushing his toilet

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Originally posted by Linds:
She would kill me if she knew I'd posted this but...whenever my Mum used to fart she would claim it was the door creaking, and I actually believed her!!!

LMAO...loving the diagram Linds...

I believed for a fair number of years that my Mum did indeed have a little bird that told her everything I got up to...

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Originally posted by cerys:
I believed for a fair number of years that my Mum did indeed have a little bird that told her everything I got up to...

Ah bless!
And I bet that little bird was kept VERY busy eh cerys

The little bird was asleep when one night a certain person borrowed a car...

Really? Sounds interesting!! Do share your story hun!!!

No...am shy...