Little White Lie

[Nyboy]

I have 6 hens who are egglaying machines, I get more eggs then I can use. I have a friend who is a single mother to a very very picky 3 year old. I give her eggs every week, her son does not want to eat eggs no matter how they are made. So she told him a little white lie. the blue eggs where layed by the Easter Bunny. That worked now he will only eat blue eggs. What white lies did your parents tell you growing up?

 

[digitS']

"We were only sleeping."

About the only thing that I didn't know about was what was none of my business .

My parents even made a point of referring to "Mommy & Daddy Santa Claus." When I went to school, I had no idea what the other kids were talking about: Santa Claus. Didn't they know that he was just a cartoon, a man in a funny suit and a fake beard?

I didn't have anyone but the people on teevee lying to me when I was a kid and that didn't happen for the first few years of childhood ignorance and bliss.

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

My mother told us kids eating carrots would give us xray vision, fish would make us smarter.

 

[Carol Dee]

LOL My Dad was one of the kids that would not eat eggs (Many, many years ago.....) But would eat the colored hard boiled Easter Eggs.... Bunny Eggs.... So Grandma would boil and COLOR the eggs so he would eat them year 'round.

 

[digitS']

My mother told us kids eating carrots would give us xray vision, fish would make us smarter.

Wait a minute!

That's fact . . . . isn't it?

Steve :/

 

[vfem]

My parents still lie to me....

I'd rather not get into it, but I can happily say I grew into a decent person that EVERYONE agrees could not POSSIBLY been actually related to those people.

I do little white lie the wee one when it comes to food as well though. We just tell her weird new things are 'frog eyes, puppy dog tails, with boogers & compost piles on time'. If I make it look ridiculously NASTY, she knows its real food and will eat it and tell me how YUMMY a frog's eye really is.

Do what you gotta do!

 

[897tgigvib]

Compared to other houses and families, ours could have been filmed as a really real reality show. If something wasn't true dad would say (the word is synonymous with the manure a male bovine makes) repeatedly. In fact if the truth didn't come out, then he'd start saying it in latin, spanish, french and some other languages and then ask what language might we understand.

Nothing got past my parents!

That time when I was 15 and everyone was gone to the fair in the big car, they left the ford comet...I got the keys...i even checked to see EXACTLY where the tires were, and i drove it around the block, and parked it EXACTLY the same place.

Dad STILL knew! And I had to 'fess up! How did you know dad??? You HAVE to tell me! With a flourish he opened the front door saying come out here and look! He pointed at the tires saying see the valve stems? They aren't at the same place!!!

How can a kid get by with ANYTHING if your dad knows where the valve stems are???

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Maybe the little white lie is embedded in that somehow. Maybe dad knew I was aching to drive the '61 comet, so the rest of everyone went to the fair to leave me with the temptation, and he noted the placements of the valve stems just for this.

What passes for reality tv! pssshh!

 

[Smiles Jr.]

I grew up thinking that those modern looking water towers were atomic bombs. My older brother told me, so it must be true.

 

[so lucky]

When I was a teenager, my mother told me that people can tell if a girl is sexually active because she gets bowlegged. I have had a few good laughs over this, but it caused me some concern at the time!

 

[journey11]

This thread is cracking me up!

I can't think of one myself...