Lies your Parents told you

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  @definitely_not_an_eel · 6 months ago · pinned

  Please elaborate

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  @DrEggSandwich · 6 months ago

  RE: the juicy eggs story. My parents told me the tunnel-bridge to board planes was called "the big worm" and one time, as a 25 year-old taking a flight by myself, I asked the gate agent if we would be boarding with the bus or the big worm and he literally called over another gate agent to laugh at me together.

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  @calebsmith6792 · 6 months ago (edited)

  on long car trips, my parents would tell me and my siblings that they knew a shortcut, but they could only take it if we went to sleep. pretty genius, honestly.

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  @horse14t · 6 months ago

  I never got the whole &quot;pet got sent to a farm&quot; thing.<br>If your kid&apos;s pet dies, the kid has every right to grieve the loss of the pet.<br>My parents never hid a pet&apos;s death from me, they let me go through the natural process of grief and as an adult now I appreciate that a lot!

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  @aviangreeneunicornsandrain7067 · 2 months ago

  One time my mother told me dandelion fluff flying through the air was an explosion in a teddy bear factory

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  @lizardninja007 · 6 months ago

  My mom told me that Alan Rickman was gay and I believed it and even told kids in school that Professor Snape&apos;s actor was actually gay. I believed this until the day he died and the news came on and said he was survived by his wife and kids. I was so confused and asked my mom &quot;why did you tell me Alan Rickman was gay?&quot; and she said &quot;He seemed shy so I thought he was gay&quot;.

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  @zapadap1328 · 6 months ago

  The real reason there will be no Matt Rose Monday next week is because he tried to count all the stones in Stonehenge

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  @TheMachineDivine · 6 months ago

  im recovering from a anesthesia and on percocet i thirnk tjis is the right way to watch matt rows

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  @MikeyRafferty · 3 months ago (edited)

  I remember being maybe 5 or 6, and asking my dad about the two trophies in our living room. He said &quot;oh those are volleyball trophies&quot;. I never questioned it because he did play volleyball (noncompetitively at a local gym) before I was born, and the statues were each of a person with wings holding up a sphere made of circles of metal. So, wings for jumping and a sphere which could arguably be called a ball, it made perfect sense to me.<br><br>Years later I was 16, and doing the &apos;two truths and a lie&apos; icebreaker with one of my cousins and some other people at a sleep-away camp. One of my cousin&apos;s options was &quot;One of my relatives has won an emmy&quot;, and I went &quot;wait, which one?&quot;, and she just looked at me, utterly baffled, and went &quot;... your dad.&quot;<br><br>Turns out when my dad worked for NBC during the 1992 Spain Summer Olympics, some of the code he was responsible for won him and his team an emmy within the graphics department. All I could say in that moment was &quot;HE TOLD ME THEY WERE VOLLEYBALL TROPHIES&quot;.

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  @eumirus · 6 months ago

  seeing the morris dancing one made me cackle because i AM a morris dancer 😭 i damn well hope it&apos;s not illegal lmao

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  @ActionYakPolice · 6 months ago

  growing up, my mom had the honesty of somebody who got constantly messed with as a kid and swore not to do it to their own kids. my dad believes education is extremely important so he would only make up plausible sounding things when he didn&apos;t feel like explaining complex answers.<br>my brother told me that my mom went to the moon when she went grocery shopping

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  @yamikawaii33 · 6 months ago

  Very common lie where I&apos;m from is telling kids that if you drink coffee you&apos;ll grow a tail. I was a fairly cautious and reasonable child so I accepted the &apos;it&apos;s not good for you&apos; answer but the lie made me want to drink it because I wanted a tail

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