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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Jul 22, 2014 21:03:17 GMT
I feel left out. My Mom never said any if these to me. I've heard some of them before but not from Mom.
I do remember when I was in Junior High and this poor boy made an appointment with the counselor because he was worried that he had gotten a girl pregnant. All he had ever done though was hold the girl's hand. His parents had told him that holding hands with a girl would get her pregnant. He was SO freaked out.
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Post by formerpea on Jul 22, 2014 21:08:33 GMT
Don't whistle in the house, it's bad luck as was hats on the bed.
Don't touch a plant while on your period or else it will die. I kid you not.
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Post by ChicagoKTS on Jul 22, 2014 21:11:13 GMT
"If you sit on cold cement, you will get a bladder infection." My warning went a step further - you'll get piles if you sit on cold cement/a cold wall etc. It terrified me because for years she wouldn't even tell me what piles were! My mom was always telling me I would get piles if I sat on cold cement. I was terrified too because I had no clue what piles were but I sure didn't want them.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 22, 2014 21:14:52 GMT
My mom never really told me any old wives tales, but my grandmother used to say if you had your mouth open when a dragonfly flew by it would sew your mouth shut.
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Post by julieinmd on Jul 22, 2014 21:18:17 GMT
Well, it wasn't my mom but my dad used to tell me:
If you untie your belly button your legs will fall off. (This one worried me sick. I would look at my belly button when I was in the bathtub and feel so afraid I was going to "accidentally" untie my belly button.)
The 60 year old neighbor, who was a very nice man. told my siblings and I that you can catch a bird by shaking salt on its tail. We spent a whole day chasing birds with the salt shaker and did not catch one bird. Whoo boy, we did make my mom mad though! She was just sure that all that wasted salt was going to kill the grass. I don't remember if it did or didn't.
Finally, my friend's father is the winner. He told her that when the ice cream truck is playing music it means they are out of ice cream. Oh dear! That is just too mean to contemplate.
The lies grown ups tell!
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Post by Debbie on Jul 22, 2014 21:18:53 GMT
My mom also told me I'd get worms from eating raw potatoes and uncooked pasta. When my kids were young, they liked to ear frozen waffles..still frozen. My mom said that would give them stomach aches. Sorry mom, I don't think the waffles are any colder than the ice cream you eat every night, and your stomach seems fine!
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Post by SuPeaNatural on Jul 22, 2014 21:39:03 GMT
"If the wind changes you'll stay like that" - if we pulled a silly face.
"You must have worms" - if we kept asking for food\snacks
That eating your crust makes your hair curly - and for someone who would have put Shirley Temple to shame and hated her hair, that one turned me off crusts all my life.
Not to go out with wet hair of I'd get the flu
Not to swim for 30 minutes after eating.
To make sure the bath water wasn't to hot during period time. We shouldn't go swimming during that week either.
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Post by stargazer on Jul 22, 2014 22:08:11 GMT
"If you aren't careful with XYZ, you'll put your eye out!" I babysat for a child whose mother was halfway through saying this when he did indeed embed the stick in his eye! He ended up with stitches in his eyeball which I had to put drops onto (with the end of the stitches sticking out). Icky!
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Post by bluepoprocks on Jul 22, 2014 22:30:10 GMT
My gram always said if you swallow a watermelon seed a watermelon will grow in your stomach. I knew it wasn't true but I said this to my nephew when he was 7. He looked at me and said how would it grow with no sunlight. Kids are smarter now then we were as kids. I never thought to question my gram if she said it I believed it.
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Post by bebe on Jul 22, 2014 22:39:13 GMT
Mine was "green" stuff as in things not ripe yet like plums, apples, peaches etc and I'm really glad my face never "froze" like that LOL and I loved if we crossed our eyes-they were going to "get hung" My daughter, the RN, just cringes when someone talks about getting a cold from the wet head, cold weather--I can just hear her say--"it comes from germs. people!!!!"--so you know sometimes I just say "I don't need to go out in the cold, I may get sick" just to get a reaction--Aren't we here to tease out adult children.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 23:34:00 GMT
oh! Grandma used to tell us that singing at the dinner table would make your hind legs fall off. I looked around for my hind legs, couldn't find them so I resumed singing. Figured it was too late. They were already gone so I might as well sing.
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Post by GiantsFan on Jul 23, 2014 0:04:02 GMT
If you eat a raw potato you'll get worms.
Funny story - the other day my 1 year old great niece went into the kitchen and came back with a potato in her hand. My sister and I looked at each other and said "Get that potato away from her, she'll get worms!" Then we laughed and laughed. No one else got it.
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Post by bomo on Jul 23, 2014 0:28:59 GMT
Glory joy, you must have straight hair then. Yep, straight as a board ! OMG! My mother was right!
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Post by garcia5050 on Jul 23, 2014 0:33:03 GMT
My mom told me I would get hemerroids if I sat on hot cement? I also couldn't eat raw dough of any kind, or else I would get 'empachada'. Which sort of means that the dough would stick to the walls of my stomach and other innards and cause my system to get all jacked up. God forbid I actually got any kind of illness after eating raw dough, because then I would need a trip to the voodoo lady to squeeze and twist my stomach to heal me. Fun. I also would catch a cold if I want outside barefoot. I had to wrap my head in a towel during a thunderstorm to prevent being struck by lightning. If I was at school, my mom freaked out until I made it home. If someone told me that my baby was pretty, that person then had to touch my baby to prevent the evil eye. While pregnant, I had to wear a safety pin on my underwear, the whole time. I forgot why, but there is definitely a reason. If someone is sleeping (on their back), and they have their arms crossed in front of their chest, I need to uncross those arms. If I don't, I'm getting that person one step closer to death (because that is the coffin pose). If I borrow a safety pin or a bobby pin or something that small, from anyone, I need to give that person some amount of money, to prevent feelings of "owing somebody."
I have a TON of these.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 0:52:08 GMT
My grandma used to tell all of us kids that if stuck our lower lip out (pouted), a bird would poop on it. No way I wanted THAT to happen, so I kept my lower lip firmly in place and just pouted on the inside.
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Post by georgiapea on Jul 23, 2014 1:01:25 GMT
Mayonaise is made from ox blood. My parents didn't like the amount I used. The comment had no effect on my consumption of mayonaise.
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Post by sharlag on Jul 23, 2014 1:14:39 GMT
My mom told me I would get hemerroids if I sat on hot cement? I also couldn't eat raw dough of any kind, or else I would get 'empachada'. Which sort of means that the dough would stick to the walls of my stomach and other innards and cause my system to get all jacked up. God forbid I actually got any kind of illness after eating raw dough, because then I would need a trip to the voodoo lady to squeeze and twist my stomach to heal me. Fun. I also would catch a cold if I want outside barefoot. I had to wrap my head in a towel during a thunderstorm to prevent being struck by lightning. If I was at school, my mom freaked out until I made it home. If someone told me that my baby was pretty, that person then had to touch my baby to prevent the evil eye. While pregnant, I had to wear a safety pin on my underwear, the whole time. I forgot why, but there is definitely a reason. If someone is sleeping (on their back), and they have their arms crossed in front of their chest, I need to uncross those arms. If I don't, I'm getting that person one step closer to death (because that is the coffin pose). If I borrow a safety pin or a bobby pin or something that small, from anyone, I need to give that person some amount of money, to prevent feelings of "owing somebody." I have a TON of these. These are unique!
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Post by Sweets McPea on Jul 23, 2014 1:32:40 GMT
My mother insisted that when cutting up a cucumber one had to use the first slice to rub it against the rest of it for at least a minute. To draw out the poison you see. I thought she was trolling me. But she does it to this day. Talk about a long con.
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Post by violet on Jul 23, 2014 1:39:15 GMT
I'm another one that was told not to roll my eyes or they would get stuck. Some other goodies include don't play in the rain, you'll catch cold, and no swimming for 30 minutes after eating or you'll cramp up and drown.
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Post by yodutchess on Jul 23, 2014 1:59:08 GMT
Mom always said "Drinking soda from cans will give you ROCKWORM". Which made us howl with laughter, since we knew she made up the disease ROCKWORM. A few years ago, I read of an outbreak of hantavirus (caused by mouse poop) from drinking from unwashed cans. I forwarded the article to my sisters with the heading Hantavirus= ROCKWORM.
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Post by laureljean on Jul 23, 2014 2:05:33 GMT
My mom always told us "You're going to break your neck!" whenever we got rowdy in the house.
My grandmother (her mom) had numerous horror stories about "a boy she knew" who did something like stick his hand or elbow out the car window and a car went by and cut off his limb. She'd say," ... and he bled to death right there in the back seat, and no one could do anything about it."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 2:08:27 GMT
My mom would tell us that eating our vegetables would put hair on our chests. She would tell that to the boys and girls. Now anything she fixes she will tell us to eat up!! It will put hair on your chest!!
I heard the barefoot big Indian feet too..and the undercooked pork will give you worms. She would tell u not to eat raw cookie dough and cake batter cuz of the raw eggs, but never really told us why. And she let us eat it any ways..lol
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Post by twistedscissors on Jul 23, 2014 2:12:21 GMT
My grandma always told us that if you pee in the road you'll get an ear infection. She also said that if you get bit by a turtle that it won't let go until it thunders. Another one was that if you play in fire that you would pee the bed.
Of course if we were in trouble, she would say she was gonna kick our a$$ up between our ears. Lol. Loved that one!
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Post by Gravity on Jul 23, 2014 2:20:21 GMT
My grandma used to tell all of us kids that if stuck our lower lip out (pouted), a bird would poop on it. No way I wanted THAT to happen, so I kept my lower lip firmly in place and just pouted on the inside. My mamaw told me the same thing. My mom would always say "nice girls" don't wear red nail polish or tampons.
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Jul 23, 2014 2:42:30 GMT
Lots of old wives tales from my parents: *we were told if we played with fire, we'd wet the bed *we'd get arthritis from cracking our knuckles *it took seven years to digest gum, so don't swallow it *couldn't swim for a half an hour after eating *eat your crusts so you can whistle *you'd better behave, Santa is watching
When my kids were little, I told them that the car wouldn't start until their seat belts were fastened. Thank goodness they always complied, and insisted their friends buckle up, too!
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Post by kluski on Jul 23, 2014 2:53:43 GMT
What the heck are they? Did she ever tell you? I think piles are hemorrhoids. oh bummer this was mine! yep, hemorrhoids!
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Post by kluski on Jul 23, 2014 2:55:08 GMT
Oh I forgot the other one... I wasn't allowed to participate in gymnastics bc a split would tear my vagina.
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Jul 23, 2014 3:03:08 GMT
Oh I forgot the other one... I wasn't allowed to participate in gymnastics bc a split would tear my vagina. THis one made me laugh out loud!
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Post by linda~lou on Jul 23, 2014 3:05:06 GMT
That if I read in poor lighting, I'd go blind, well at least ruin my eyes. And wait a hour after eating before you went swimming. Never understood that one. You must have one regular BM a day or your insides would explode. I miss my mom.....
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Jul 23, 2014 3:12:47 GMT
Another one similar to linda~lou; You could go blind if you sat too close to the television!
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