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‘What were the dumbest lies you believed as a kid?’ – 27 funniest (and dumbest)

15.

‘That if you you die in your dream, you die in real life.’
SippingBinJuice

16.

‘ATM gives free money.’
Phyromanic

17.

‘When I was 6 my parents told me that when you flush from an airplane toilet, the waste gets dumped mid air into the ocean. I believed that and told all my friends. Parents then told me they were joking and I became the class fool.’
madkubrick

18.

‘When I was a child, I got upset after a button came off of my shirt. My mother told me not to worry and that if I placed the button under a rock in the yard, the button fairy would replace it with a quarter.

‘I believed it, and to my mother’s dismay, she discovered I had pulled the buttons off of every shirt in my closet. To this day, 40 years later, shirt buttons can still be found under random rocks in my parents’ backyard.’
denrad

19.

‘Eating too much sugar will glue my ass cheeks together.

‘Thanks mom.’
Quit_Naive

20.

‘That you could get a ticket for having the light on in your car while driving.’
jasonwinters

21.

‘Walt disney invented colour. watching a black and white show I thought everyone from the 50’s and lower had lived in black and white. I asked my father “who invented colour?” Dad looked at me dead serious and said “walt disney” I believed it far to long.’
FlickerOfBoogers

22.

‘If you swallowed the black watermelon seeds a watermelon would grow in your belly.’
Kitchen-Commission47

23.

‘I was told by my dad, when I was around 8-9, that ‘The people at the sewerage plant have been examining your poop, and need you to eat more fiber’.’
cowtownman75

24.

‘The teachers in my school told us if you pull the fire alarm, ink shoots out on your hands that doesn’t wash off for a few days so they know who pulled it. I was 26 when I found out its all a lie.’
SinisterMeatball

25.

‘Dad told us his dried apricots were monkey ears so we wouldn’t eat them.’
williamgilmore88

26.

‘That if you sit to close to the TV or computer screen you’ll go blind. I was told that during the summer of 5th grade, then got glasses in 6th grade. All I heard was a “told you …” as i tried on my first pair of glasses and was told that my sister (1 yr younger) wont need glasses because she listened.

‘She got her glasses less than a year later.’
tecoyeah

27.

‘This isn’t a lie but when I was a kid I had no idea how turn signals worked and just thought the cars always knew exactly where we were going.’
BDalle01

And finally …

‘That adults know what they’re doing.’
Entropy_5

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