Simply 19 weird but harmless lies told by parents
10.
Thunder is the clouds banging together
Thing is; it was a lie that my grandparents told my mum & aunt when they were little. They genuinely believed it well into adulthood & taught it to all their children thinking it was 100% factual 😂
cynefin99
11.
My mom told me when we first had a microwave in the 80s that they explode if you switch them on with nothing in (it was to basically deter me from switching it on randomly, but I was never ever put straight on it)
I found out that wasn’t the case when I was in my mid 30s at a house party and someone closed the door after they took something out……and I dived across a packed kitchen giving zero fucks to who was in the way… genuinely still believing we were all about to go up in a fireball.
AgentSears
12.
My dad told me the meat in airplane food is always owl.
elle-10810
13.
My parents often used to drive myself and my brother’s along this boring stretch of motorway to take us to the nearest big town. They used to tell us there was this cool telephone post disguised as a tree in the woods somewhere and that we should try to find it.
Kept us really quiet as we tried to identify the fake tree amongst all the real ones. It was of course a big lie.
lauralottie
14.
I was told that if I had the volume up on my Gameboy it would pretty much immediately run out of batteries.
Amazingly that only seemed to apply when we were in the car or out at a restaurant…
AlarmingAmbassador
15.
My grandpa had my mum convinced that if you were really sick and couldn’t go to school, youd get a green dot on the end of your nose. For years my mum couldn’t understand why they just laughed at her when she got up early and drew a green dot on the end of her nose to avoid school.
bigjobby95
16.
If you swallowed an orange seed an orange tree would grow out of your head. It didn’t work as I proved them wrong.
ChemicalPhilosophy
17.
My dad used to tell me that Brussel sprouts were green mushrooms because I hated the former and loved mushrooms.
When I found out I didn’t eat sprouts for years.
barriedalenick
18.
My Dad convinced me Raw Potato tasted nice. I didn’t discover until 6 years after he died that he was trolling me and feeding me cooked and cooled new potatoes. Whilst telling me they were actually Raw Potato.
StopTheTrickle
19.
My parents used to tell me about “badger sticks”, which were sticks out in the forest or in a park that a magical badger had cursed, and if I or my brother took one of those sticks out of the park/forest then we would turn into a magical badger the next day.
They did it so they didn’t have to deal with a bunch of “cool sticks” we found strewn around the house, obviously, but it was still a cool lie.
Howrealflangie
One parent owned up to their own weird lie.
I was the lying parent. MY oldest had a goldfish that I couldn’t seem to keep alive when she was about 6. I quietly replaced it a few times and blithely told her that they change colour as they grow ‘like babies eyes change colour as they grow up’
The angry call in freshman year of university was funny, as she had explained this as gospel truth to other students and hilarity ensued.
ClareSwinn
We very much doubt that u/RunawayPenguin89 believed this lie, but the response from u/bradders82 is a must-see comment.
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