Once we were small and naive, we believed that Santa Claus really exists, and the characters from fairy tales were sometimes dearer than real friends. Now it is so funny to remember what ridiculous things we believed in!
Children are brought by a stork, catching them from cabbage. The moon is made of cheese, the gray top can bite the barrel, and if you don’t eat, you won’t grow up. How many ridiculous things our parents invented so as not to answer uncomfortable questions or force them to do the right thing! But we believed.
For example: “When I first saw black and white cinema, my parents told me that before my birth the world was black and white, and I brought color into it. I was flattered, but I was also embarrassed “- this is the story of one of the users on Twitter.
And we have collected on social networks 20 more ridiculous absurdities that our parents treated us to. Did they tell you that?
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“Don’t swallow gum! If you swallow it, it will remain in your stomach for 7 years, ”my mother told me. It was later that I learned that there is nothing wrong with swallowing gum, it just takes a long time to digest. “
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“Do not eat cherries (cherries, watermelons, melons) with seeds. Otherwise, the bones in your stomach will sprout. ” Here, as proof, they usually showed a cartoon about Baron Munchausen – an episode where he shoots a bear with a cherry bone, and a tree grows on the beast’s head. And one day, having accidentally swallowed a cherry pit, I decided not to drink water so that it would not germinate. I knew that plants cannot survive without water. After a couple of days I decided that my trick worked, the tree hadn’t grown. “
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“Don’t drink tap water, you will swallow the fish. Another option is to swallow a frog that will croak while sitting in your belly. But we really shouldn’t have drunk tap water ”.
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“My dad threatened that if I misbehave, he will take me back to the store where I bought it. He also kept the check. I was hysterical. “
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“If you don’t clean the room, there will be garbage rabbits under the bed that will come at night and tickle your heels. I was terribly ticklish, so every evening I checked for rabbits under the bed. “
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“We loved watching TV. Sitting closer, of course. “Do not sit close to the TV, your eyes will be square,” – said the grandmother. “
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“I grimaced a lot in childhood, my father and I have this hereditary. And my grandmother said: “Just like that next time you twist your face, someone will hit you on the head, and you will remain like that forever.”
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“A classmate scared me, and her parents scared me. She said that one should not step on the sewer manholes, otherwise one day mom and dad would leave and not return. I am 38 years old and I still don’t step on manhole covers. ”
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“If you touch your navel, it will loosen and the insides will fall out. This has become my nightmare. I was even afraid to look at my navel. “
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“My mother said that at McDonald’s they only sell mushrooms and mushroom dishes. I hated mushrooms, so we never went to McDonald’s.
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“My brother and I could watch a movie or cartoon 10 times in a row. And once our aunt told us that the cassettes that we rent are programmed for only one viewing. And that after watching the contents of the cassette is erased. We have believed in this for many years. “
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“I was told that you cannot eat seeds with husks, otherwise there will be appendicitis and you will have to cut your stomach.”
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“My mother showed us my grandmother’s denture and said that my grandmother’s teeth fell out because she didn’t clean them. In some ways she was right, of course. “
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“Since childhood, I loved to eat at night. My grandmother said that if I gorge myself before bed, the gypsies would steal me. “
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“When I asked for tea or coffee to drink as adults, I was told that coffee darkens the skin of children and starts to grow moles and warts.”
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“My mom put food coloring in a bucket of water and trusted me to paint the house. The walls were darkened by the water, but no color remained. Then my mother said that one more coat of paint was needed. I could paint the house for hours. “
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“When my brother and I were little and hooligans, my aunt sat us on the sofa and pretended to twist our navels. And then she said that if we try to get up, our arms and legs will fall off. We sat on the couch for hours, afraid to be left without legs. “
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“My aunt told her son that he was allergic to alcohol when he was very young. She came up with a whole story about how he drank cough syrup and almost died because it had alcohol in it. He grew up with the belief that he was allergic. I drank my first glass when I graduated from the university. “
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“I didn’t like to cut my nails, and my dad invented a nail fairy for me – like a tooth fairy, she only came to get cut nails. In return, the fairy left behind gummies. So now I had to make sure that I did not cut my nails to the very holes. “
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“My brother was a very noisy child, a fidget. We grew up without a father, and my mother had to do a hundred things at the same time, and my brother just hung on her. And then one day she asked him to open a jar of jam. He was confused, asked how to do it – he was only four years old, he never opened banks. Mom said that if he sits down, concentrates and looks at the jar, he can open it with the power of thought. He sat there for half an hour, then ran out to the toilet, my mother quickly opened the can. He returned, looked at the can for another five minutes. And then: “Wow, that’s so cool, you could!” The trick with the power of thought worked for two more years. “