What’s the craziest thing that you were told as a kid by a parent or an adult?
One that I remember is my dad telling me that if I swallowed my gum I’d grow a horse’s tooth. Say what? lol
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He denies it now but my father told me that midges don’t really bite people, they just buzz around their heads because they think our hair is a hedge.
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If you lie, your tongue turns black.
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I always wanted to take riding lessons. My mum told everyone (including my dad) that she had signed me up, but there’s a waiting line with over 100 people in front of me.
I waited. And waited. And waited. And gave up hope.
15-ish years later my mum confessed that she never signed me up because she doesn’t like the smell.
My dad was furious, I just shrugged it off as an other episode of my mum being her usual self centered self.
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We were told if we lie we’d get a bump on our tongue. lol
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Having the interior light on in the car is illegal.
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Well. Today I learned that driving around with the interior lights on isn’t illegal. (Just dangerous)
My mother used to tell me that sniffing when I had a cold would clog my lungs with the snot. Worse, she apparently believed it too.
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That if you ate food outside of the kitchen it would make bugs.
Not that it would ATTRACT bugs but that it would MAKE them. So if I snuck a granola bar into my room and the next day there were ants, they didnt come from outside they spawned out of my unattended granola bar.
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The black tongue thing was a trick my mom played on us - if we were willing to open our mouths to prove our tongue wasn’t black, then we weren’t lying. It gave me a couple years of easy lies when I figured it out XD
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Dad told us that a lump on the tongue meant that we’d been lying.
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Same here.
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Ignore (Bully) and they’ll get bored and go away… 
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Go tell a teacher!
That never worked…
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