People Discuss Things They Believed As Kids But Later Realized To Be A Pile Of Lies (30 Answers)

Aw, what a wonderful grandpa. Mine just buried moonshine in the backyard. And no, it wasn't for me. 😂

What child loves radishes more than fruit?!?

That was false? I wish I had known that before I wasted my time. I could have gotten my decent paying job and stable lifestyle without putting in any effort.

They just left out the trust fund part.

Needs to be updated to "you'll get a chance of a decent job". If you don't work hard, don't study, and don't get good grades you almost definitely won't!

That's what I was told. It turned out to be true! I just didn't create enough safeties to retain any of that money!

was probably true for a while post WW2

More people need to learn how to tell their family members to "f**k off". It's quite liberating!

The concept of family is not meaningless and shouldn't be dismissed so easily. That doesn't justify abuse, nor does it mean that you have to tolerate it. Still, if you abolish the concept of unconditional, familiar love, what happens on the day when you need it and friends aren't around? Everyone, myself included, is capable of hurtful levels of assholery.

No toxic applies universally

Family can be people related to you by blood or adoption or people you meet with no familial relation. And sometimes DNA really stands for "do not associate", because these people are nuts. I don't really associate with some of my a$$hole relatives very much because they just want money and distance is a good idea.

I managed to drive my bully away by pretending *I* liked *him*. Apparently if you're an ugly girl your bullies don't want to be known as being associated with you. Worked like a charm! I wonder what that AH is doing nowadays, been 20+ years.

They do it because they are jealous of you or they like you.

I had a few "old school" bullies who were just bigger and/or meaner than me. I *could* ignore them because we had mostly different class schedules, and I never once saw them outside of school. There was no internet or social media then. Today's bullies are different: the harassment is constant, inescapable, and relentlessly cruel. And sometimes *parents* are in on it.

Thankfully, I was never told that. Although I was told that there is a fine line between putting a bully in their place and becoming a bully yourself.

Maybe an ex-lax spiked treat will work.

In the UK you can be stopped by the police if they feel that the interior lights are distracting you. Certainly someone switching them on suddenly when driving in the dark will distract you

It is. In my country it is illegal to cause danger in traffic. Turning on interior lights can make the outside world less visible to the driver so it can cause danger. I guess other countries have similar rules, even if the interior lights are not specifically mentioned in the law.

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My husband turned on the car interior lights while I was driving and I totally freaked out. Told him I wasnt paying the fine when we got arrested. I'm 70 and this is the first time I've heard that doing so is not illegal.

I do find it harder to see outside the vehicle when driving in the dark if interior lights are on. The illuminated interior provides more light to your pupils, therefore when you look outside they aren't dilated enough to take in more light and see in the dark, meaning it's harder to see outside. Also, the illuminated interior will sometimes reflect off your windows and windshield, also making it harder to see outside.

Yeah, the truth is more than adequate here. If I'm going to kill my credibility in front of my kids, it needs to be better than that. Kindness? Yes. Tact? Yes. B.S.? No.

Yes as kids everyone seemed to have a fear of quicksand and the Bermuda triangle

A big worry as a kid was getting eaten by sharks.. We live 600 miles away from the ocean in the desert.

I got stuck up to my knee in quicksand once and I'm not gonna lie, I thought it was the end of me

Any sand is quick if you throw it fast enough

But where I grew up, the slobs were a real problem though. Holy shite! I just realised I didn't know the English term for them!... Apparently they are call 'mudflats'... Thanks google.

I got thrown out of the poo for peeing in it. Should not have done it from the top diving board.

They told us it would be pink when I was a kid at summer camp. And they were definitely lying because I tested the theory a few times. :) Although now there are several videos where people HAVE been caught peeing by a color reaction. Not sure if it's new?

You would think that they could make something like that to put in our pools. I have no doubt in my mind that it can be created. The fact that there are chemical test that change color reacting to d***s to blood and other bodily fluids. If a scientist and chemist got together, it could be accomplished. All those in favor of somehow making this a thing, Say "I"! Lol

Actually that may be useful?

Green might be more meaningful. Blue+Yellow

There's "knowing what you're doing" - e.g. "I'm doing the dishes" - and there's "knowing that what you're doing is no guarantee of success or happiness". I think my parents actually did have some things figured out: they both did the college-good job-buy a house thing; double income/one kid (spoiled little me!); friends outside of work; lots of hobbies (both solo and shared); able to do things alone... I on the other hand have no idea what I'm doing, and rely a lot on inertia to keep me going.

To be fair, none of the adults in my life said this they just did a good job keeping it together when everything was falling apart but they were calm, so we stayed calm.