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.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

We got the usual food myths designed to make you eat things that are good for you such as 'crusts make your hair curly', 'carrots make you see in the dark' (ever wonder about all those squashed rabbits on the roads?), and 'if you don't eat it we'll have to send it to the starving children in [insert newsworthy famine area here].

My favourites were the lies that my Dad told me just to wind other people up:

Small yappy dogs like Yorkshire terriers etc are 'rats in fur coats'

Those red-and-white striped tents you see at roadworks are where Sunderland United players live.

[adjectivegail]

i used to really hate spinach (still am not terribly fond of it, actually), and one day my mom got fed up and blendered it, and then mixed it with the rice. well, we'd had white rice, brown rice, red rice, black rice... now we had green rice.
the funny thing is that i liked it, and kept asking for it. *shakes head* bad me...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me. Spinach as a food is nasty, as an ingredient is fine. There's lots of things that's true of.