Lies My Parents Told Me
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I thought this was an interesting question worth propogating!
My parent's weren't the sort to lie, but I've come to realise that a lot of the things my Dad told me that I took on faith were a bit misconcieved. He believed that a stitch from running was the result of ribs rubbing up against each other. It wasn't 'till years later that I got a stitch again and realised that it couldn't possibly be that and it felt much more like a muscle cramp...
Now it's your turn. Tell us about a bizarre or stupid lie your parents told you.
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Date: 2002-04-15 07:51 am (UTC)I don't know if this counts .. but there were so many times when my mum would
say "Don't go near the edge, you'll fall in.." - which never happened.
Also, I was taught never to say the word 'r a t s' indoors - which made for some
amusing conversions when I was one the phone to my parents discussing my pet
rats.
(Actually I still find that hard to do; I have to make a conscious effort to
say the word when I'm in my flat - elsewhere I'm fine).
Something else which I've inheritted is the absolute preference for walking in places
by the side-door, and not the front door. The front door being reserved for wakes, and
taking corpses out of. I suspect that's a Yorkshire thing though.
.. Feel morbid now :(
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Date: 2002-04-15 08:13 am (UTC)I am kidding here, but I have been known to abseil out my living room window :)
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Date: 2002-04-15 09:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-04-16 12:33 am (UTC)I'm not sure I'd describe my mum as being eccentric - but alas I don't know
the reasoning behind this.
I do know that she genuinely believes, even now, that if you do say the
R word that's tantamount to inviting them in. I can't think why she'd care
because of the cats, or why she'd be superstitous enough to believe it though
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Date: 2002-04-15 10:18 am (UTC)