Lies My Parents Told Me

[ciphergoth]

meta asks for stories of lies your parents told you, here:

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=meta&itemid=119465

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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[fire-sermon.livejournal.com]

When I was very little I wanted my parents to take me to the cinema to see Star Wars - I think it was being re-run at the local cinema and some of my friends from school had been to see it and had been playing with their action figures and talking about it a lot. As I was about five and couldn't really read at that point, I was non the wiser when my evil parents took me to see Disney's inferior The Black Hole instead and told me it was in fact Star Wars.

Even at that young age I thought it was a load of dull nonsense and when Empire and Jedi came out, I had no interest at all in seeing it. Only finally when the real Star Wars was on tv one Christmas and I watched it and thinking this was nothing like I remembered, my parents confessed their little lie ...