Lies, lies, lies...

[Browncoat]

Saw a thread similar to this on Reddit, and thought it would be fun.

Has anyone ever told you a story and/or bit of advice that you believed, only to later find out that it was total BS? Here's a gem my parents told me when I was a kid:

I live in Ohio, pretty close to where famed astronaut Neil Armstrong grew up. There is a museum in his hometown, and it looks like a gigantic moon resting on a base. My parents used tell me that this is where the moon went during the daytime.

 

[Just Me]

We have a leaning tower replica close to the house, My grandparents use to tell me Santa left evles there year round to watch us and make sure we were being good.
They also told me money trees were real, when I would spend the night they had a small tree in the kitchen with dollar bills hanging from it and the next day it would be 10s then 20s we were aloud to pick only one or the tree would stop producing. One day my sisters and I were asking my mom for something and she told us no we didn't have money for that right now, we told her just go to grandpas and pick some off the tree LOL

 

[OB61887]

They told me our dog went to live with a friend out in the country...

 

[moecat]

That you'll go blind if you do ... whatever ...............

 

[vaperature]

I asked what the part in my hair was and was told that I was running around and slammed my head and had a big scar on my head. This was their way of trying to stop me from running around like a crazy child but I believed I had a huge scar on my head until I was like nine years old.

 

[Iamme]

Hairy palms..........

Nickel back is a real band

 

[Huckleberried]

A friend of mine came over for breakfast with his son a long time ago. Kiddo wanted "blue" pancakes. OK, if dad's cool with that, I'll make 'em. Kiddo didn't think I could, lol. So afterward, he asked me how I did it. I showed him the carton that the eggs came in, it was blue. I didn't open it, though. I also had some brown eggs, in a tan carton. I opened those to show him the brown eggs, so he "didn't need to see the blue eggs". He was satisfied with that.

 

[cad99]

That this is a picnic table factory in the middle of no where in North Dakota

Living the dream one nightmare at a time.

 

[Robert B]

A good friend of mine used to work at that Picnic table factory. He was a Captain in the Air Force... lol

 

[MKPM]

Saw a thread similar to this on Reddit, and thought it would be fun.

Has anyone ever told you a story and/or bit of advice that you believed, only to later find out that it was total BS? Here's a gem my parents told me when I was a kid:

I live in Ohio, pretty close to where famed astronaut Neil Armstrong grew up. There is a museum in his hometown, and it looks like a gigantic moon resting on a base. My parents used tell me that this is where the moon went during the daytime.

 

[Zamazam]

A friend of mine came over for breakfast with his son a long time ago. Kiddo wanted "blue" pancakes. OK, if dad's cool with that, I'll make 'em. Kiddo didn't think I could, lol. So afterward, he asked me how I did it. I showed him the carton that the eggs came in, it was blue. I didn't open it, though. I also had some brown eggs, in a tan carton. I opened those to show him the brown eggs, so he "didn't need to see the blue eggs". He was satisfied with that.
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They weren't Robins eggs? Wow....

 

[Zamazam]

The little door in the basement by the boiler was a door for the Trolls. It was the coal chute door for stoking a long ago replaced coal burning boiler.

 

[OB61887]

... Santa

 

[BigNasty]

... Santa

I call bullshit and shenanigans I have been to that fat bastard's house in North Pole AK.....

 

[Iamme]

Just the tip
Powder toast man
The nose goblin


There is a tower in a town near me. It is part of ruins from an old mansion. We went to car shows in the town every week. My dad and unkle told us the meanest man in the world lived there and if we were not good they would drop us off on his door step.

 

[OB61887]

I call bullshit and shenanigans I have been to that fat bastard's house in North Pole AK.....

But was he home??? All I'm saying is, I've been good and I have no Challenger.

At my 5th birthday Bozo the clown performed. He wanted to show me a magic trick and took me to the back room. When I asked what the trick was, he told me to turn around. After I turned around he told me to drop my pants. Then he put his thumb up there. In surprise I asked, "What's the trick?". Then, with his thumb still in place he put both his hands over my shoulders and said "TADAAAA!"

 

[cad99]

A good friend of mine used to work at that Picnic table factory. He was a Captain in the Air Force... lol

That's what I was told as a kid and never gave it a second thought until last month when I started rewiring it's sister a few miles away.


Living the dream one nightmare at a time.

 

[Rin Vapes]

Grandma is 39 years old. She was that age for a long time...

 

[Giraut]

Someone told me cigarettes were cool and perfectly harmless when I was 11 years old...