30 Tweets That Might Hit Too Close To Home About The Lies Our Parents Told Us Just So We’d Behave Or Do As They Said

HaHAH. I am a senior citizen. I still think that way.

I have such a Pavlovian response to Toblerone because I've only ever seen it in hotel mini bars. I saw one in a regular store one time and was afraid to touch it. "I'm not allowed!" I'm 51 and have never had one because of this fear instilled in me of mini bar items.

I blame Home Alone 2.

I mean... it very near could depending on the hotel you stay at.

TBH i am afraid of touching supposedly free tea kits in t he room? I still have no idea whether they are free

Affordable housing is about as rare as quicksand anyway.

Yep, I too thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem in my life than it turned out to be.

Maybe they tried to get the point across by using quicksand as a not well thought out proxy?

They didn't see all the inflation coming

My dad resisted getting/using a computer for YEARS. I go overseas for a year, come back and he's addicted to Hoyle Solitaire and Tetris.. he now upgrades every few years. LOL 😆 🤣

While the grown-ups fell down the Scam Holes and got catfished, the children wandered off down the road and encountered the Online Brainrot...

Conspiracy theories... OMG I can't even deal with her when she starts quoting them.

I mean they weren't wrong there are really bad people on the internet. Do you know how many people have got killed because they talked to someone on the internet?

That and that going outside with damp hair would make me catch a cold. smh..

It happens sometimes, especially since we don't have high heating, I sometimes have a runny nose after sleeping with my hair wet when it's cold

I was forced to wear a bonnet in the 80s "because the air blowing in your ears is causing ear infections" No, mom, I got the ear infections because the bonnet wouldn't let fresh air into my ears, thanks

Oh yeah. Had to blow-dry or wash in morning

Um, it’s true? As a kid I used to do that, it was ok.But now I have AC blasting at night during summer nights… I never go to sleep with wet hair because would wake up with stuffed nose 100%. As well, once as a kid I did not dry my hair well after indoor pool, just put on my hat and off I went into cold weather. Got pneumonia, 2 months of bed/home. (Was cold season outside)

Not so much a lie as an urban myth. Some people even insist it's 90 minutes. I even heard someone insist it was 3 hours. All bullcrap. Not to mention that you can swim well enough with cramp to at least get out of the water if that is even nessesary. You don't exactly need all your limbs to swim. Just look at the Paralympics for impressive examples.

Do you want to attract the lachrymose leeches?

So stupid. Ever had stomach cramps so bad you couldn't walk a half hour after eating... I doubt it

Eh, technically true but highly unlikely. A large meal can divert blood from limbs to alimentary and that *could* cause cramps.

There were 2 hours in my childhood that both felt like 2 days: Sunday mass and the hour we had to wait to go swimming after eating lunch at the beach

Mine said I’ll get square eyes…

It's the polite version to my mums alternative "get yah f*ckin head out the way before I fong yah one!!!".

Yes. But the reason I was sitting so close to the screen was because I was already half blind. Cause and effect

My dad use to tell me that all the time and I use to tell my kids that and I just stopped. I was like never did anything to my eyes. I just tell them to move if there in front of the TV and I can't see.

VR hurts my eyes after a little while

My parents just settled for telling me the truth. "Because it makes it harder to see the road and we could crash." That did the trick.

If it impedes the driver's vision, then it is illegal.

They were so slick with that lie, my father (must have been a great actor, and who we knew was a lawyer, so he'd know...right?) convinced us kids that it wasn't just illegal, but dangerous and he was not able to see the road with interior light on. And the Oscar goes to... cause that stayed with me even through adulthood, despite still being able to see if interior light on... I miss you, Dad.

Yep Lots of places in us will ticket you

My father-in-law says the same thing; I turn the light on just to mess with him sometimes

That can happen. While the risk is minimal at most that the lighting strike follows the water through the pipe instead of the ground if such a close by strike would happen, it's pretty deadly if it does happen. Thunderstorms don't last long so just avoid it. No, you won't likely die by from a lighting strike in a shower. You most probably won't. But the risk is definitely real.

Also, don't make a phone call on a landline during a Thunderstorm.

Happened to my mom, she was holding my baby brother, opened the tap in the kitchen when the thunderstorm was really close. The lightning came in through the tap, went out through the nearest socket. My mom sat on the sofa, terrified, for the rest of the storm. We were in the countryside though, in a very flat area

Happened

This one is actually very much a danger - https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/index.html

I never cracked my knuckles because I really hate the sound. My brothers cracked their knuckles a lot, knowing I really hated it. Guess which one of us has arthritis in the knuckles? 😕

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Literally had a teacher who told us we’d die of hunger is we swallowed bubble gum because it would swell up in our stomachs and we wouldn’t be able to eat anything else!