Lies my parents told me

To this day, Santa still comes for me.  LOL.

I don't think my mom has ever said he wasn't real and I don't plan on it either.  I think I always got "well, what do you think?  How do you feel about it?"  I'll probably do something similar when stupid little classmates try and ruin Santa.  

I wish I had thought of the Chuck E. Cheese one years ago when my younger kids were begging to go on a weekly basis .

My dad told us all kinds of whoppers as kids. Of course there was Santa... And he had a really funny story about the Easter Bunny that we believed for years. He also told us that the Loch Ness Monster lived in the lake by our house. He also played a game with us called "Tough Tacos"... Which was just a random card game in which he made up rules as we went along so that he always won (we eventually caught on). He STILL tries to get us to play Tough Tacos with him. My dad is a very quiet, serious man with a wicked sense of humor.

He comes by it honestly though... My grandpa, who was a white farmer from Kansas, told my dad (when he was a young boy) that he was once a Harlem Globe Trotter. My dad said he was so disappointed when he found out that wasn't true.

Woobster , I laughed out loud at the "Tough Tacos" !!

My mom told me that
1. My hair was wound up in little spools like thread inside my skull,
2. Various things that she didn't want me to eat would give me 'worms' --I was actually a wormy child, so she might have been right...
3. When weaning me from my bottle at a ripe old age of 3, that the trash man took them away

My grandpa told me that
1. Coffee would make me have more freckles,
2. Coffee would put hair on my chest


On the 'black water' for soda pop, I remember trying to disguise the PFFT! sound the Pepsi can made when being cracked open, so that the kids wouldn't hear and want a drink. I was never very successful though. Apparently, pop lovers have a keen ear for the sound a soda can makes when being opened.

I remember asking dad what the lyrics meant from the country song "the only daddy that'll walk the line". He told me that song was about him and his relationship with me.

I'll bet song lyrics have initiated quite a few creative answers by parents over the years!

My grandparent used to come home from trips with silver dollars and told us that they picked them off a tree. (Btw their destination was Vegas so the "lie" ended when I learned about Vegas). We still laugh about it.

I just remembered one!! My son could not part with his baby bottles & 1 day I collected them all up, met the trash man at the curb & gave them to him & asked him to give them to the child he thought needed them. My son was thrilled!!! The garbage man was a real character & my son would wait in his little chair in the driveway waiting for him. The garbage man, Raymond, promised my son they would go to a good home. The next week when Raymond came by he had a pic of the child with his new baby bottles!!!! My son was so happy & I was most happy to get those things out of my house!!!!

delila

Oh, my...the only one I can think of (at the moment) is Santa. But from the list, the chewing gum and oil spots ones were BAD.

Growing up, a friend's mom's neighbor made homemade popcorn balls on Halloween. My mom told me they were really horrible and that I would hate them, so I gave them to her for years

That classic old question "where did I come from" with "the stork dropped you off" was not the answer at my house. My brother would say, and my mom would go along with it, that they found me at the zoo with a dollar bill in my hand. They kept me because my brother wanted the dollar. Seriously, who says that... well, besides my mom and brother!

That's really sweet.

Hilarious! Thanks, I needed a laugh today.

I think the only one I have ever truly LIED about is the Chuck E. Cheese thing. In fact, I halfway wonder if they got that from me - I saw this list a few days ago, and it didn't have the Chuck E. Cheese thing, and I happened to make the comment. Hmmm. Maybe I have anonymous meme fame...

My dad shared quite a few things with me that were along the lines of parent creativity. I think most often it was something that he'd know just enough about to be dangerous, so he'd start off with a true or mostly true thing that would then veer off into the world of the unknown. For example, "nose flaps." When I'd get a cold and would be all congested, he told me that you only used one side of your nose at a time anyway. The other side was covered by a little flap. They alternated every seven minutes or so. It wasn't until I graduated with a degree in biology that I realized "nose flaps" never came up... (And for those wondering, since this is rather obscure info, your nose at any given time does have a "dominant nostril" and the role switches from side to side every few minutes. This is how we can still smell smells, etc. However, the control mechanism has to do with congestion of fluid, and not the infamous nose flaps. )

My mom told me the police would come and get me if I used the F word. (The neighbours had rough and tumble teens and they used it all the time)

She also told me I would get worms by eating paper. (I was all of 5 years old).