The silly things that we are told as chidren!

Well, my parents and me are not very alike, so mum always used to tell me they had found me in a basket in a sugar cane field in Mauritius and felt sorry for me so they took me home... when I was really small I always thought it might have been true.

My mum used to tell my sister that if she didn't get out the bath when she was finished she'd end up being sucked down the plug hole. One day mum played a really cruel joke and hid behind the bathroom door then called my sister saying 'Help! Help! I've gone down the plughole!' resulting in my sis staring down at the plughole shouting at my mum, tears in her eyes and all.

Mum used to take her roman catholicism a bit more seriously years back, so another one was whenever we hurt ourselves she'd say it was God punishing us for something we'd done wrong.

my parents never used to say things like that alot....
apart from 'if you stay in the bath too long you'll stay wrinkly'

Any time we asked what our dad was cooking for dinner, we were told things like eyeballs and lizard toes.

today i was spinning at the markets and these kids came up to me and said *points at the badge i'm wearing that says "5 at last"*, "are you really 5?" and i reply "yes, i am, but i'd rather not talk about it" and his face just went blank then he wandered off.

I remember my Dad telling me that the tooth fairy wasn't real- it was just him in a tutu..

And I went and repeated it at school... and one of the teachers heard me, and told EVERYONE.. I was about 5..
I just decided this one myself, but I was convinced for years that it I let my parents know I didn't belive in Santa, they'd stop giving me presents, so they thought I believed in Santa 'till I was about 15..

I used to live on a big property and there was a megaphone attached to the roof to amplify the phone ringing in case everyone was outside. My brother told me it was a monster's nest. I didn't go near it for ages.