20+ Lies Our Parents May Or May Not Have Told Us

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May 27, 2019 7:00 PM EDT

You're going to lose it when you find out about Santa Claus! These lies told by loving parents are all kinds of twisted. Parents just come up with the darnedest things.

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    Text - Jenny Lawson @TheBloggess My mom used to tell me if I ate too much popcorn I'd get pack- belly and have to go to the hospital. I just found out pack-belly isn't a real thing. My life is a lie. 1,285 1:46 AM - May 27, 2019 > 458 people are talking about this
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    Text - Jyn Oden @Jen_Oden My parents had my sister convinced for an unhealthy amount of time that the first lick of an ice cream cone is poisonous to anyone under 16. I went along with it due to age difference reasons. 41 3:47 AM - May 27, 2019 Citrus Ridge, FL See Jyn Oden's other Tweets
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    Text - Jenny Lawson @TheBloggess I thought maybe I imagined it but no... my mother is a talented liar who wanted all the popcorn. pic.twitter.com/20Fu5Td 7uQ 899 1:48 AM - May 27, 2019 144 Lisa Bir> Today 8:35 PM Do you remember when mom Would say we'd get pack-belly if we ate too much popcorn? Yep. Did it happen? Did you get pack belly? Wait a minute, what even is pack belly!? PACK BELLY IS A LIE. APPARENTLY no one else has ever heard of it. Even on the Internet. Scr I think she made it up so s
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    Text - sj @sjmoho My mom used to buy me the circus box car of animal crackers to eat while we grocery shopped. She told me that the broken ones were poisonous. I never once questioned her magical ability to eat poisonous animal crackers and somehow survive. 135 4:20 AM - May 27, 2019 See sj's other Tweets
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    Text - Shannon Berndt @Berndttoast On the way to the mountains, my dad told me that the road signs saying "Look out for falling rock" were about a lost Indian boy. Then when we pulled over, he would call out for Falling Rock. I was heartbroken for decades. 62 5:26 AM - May 27, 2019 See Shannon Berndt's other Tweets
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    Text - Ginger Jones @gingermjones Until I was at least 10, my family had me convinced that my dad found me sitting on a rock at the garbage dump. He brought me home out of pity and it was the reason I'm so much younger than my siblings. THEY WOULD TAKE ME TO SEE THE ROCK! I believed every word. 101 5:24 AM - May 27, 2019 > See Ginger Jones's other Tweets
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    Text - Courtney @EyezNowOpen When me & my bro were kids, my mom would tell us we had to be quiet to listen for whales when we were in the car... we lived in Ohio. 77 3:53 AM - May 27, 2019 See Courtney's other Tweets >
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    Text - Diane @Shekure My sister told her kids that their noisy electronic toys only worked with their original batteries and once they died that was it. 63 5:20 AM - May 27, 2019 See Diane's other Tweets
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    Text - CA Native @ccabdalla My mom said if I swallow my gum, a gum tree would grow OUT OF MY STOMACH. I was so terrified of roots and branches growing out of my body...I had night terrors. #thanksmom 28 5:34 AM - May 27, 2019 's other Tweets See CA Native
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    Text - Rebekah Sanderlin @rsanderlin My dad added 3 monkeys to every Bible story he read to us Moses & the 3 monkeys; Jonah in the whale w/3 monkeys; Jesus healing w/help from 3 monkeys, etc. I got in trouble when they sent me to Christian school b/c I corrected my teacher when she didnt mention the monkeys. 419 4:26 AM - May 27, 2019 67 people are talking about this
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    Text - Scott Perkins @Pages2Type My mother told my sister & I that green beans were green french fries to get us to eat them. We dipped them in ketchup & ate them with our fingers. I found out later that it's because she hated vegetables & knew she'd never be able to model good behavior, so she fibbed instead. 57 4:44 AM - May 27, 2019 See Scott Perkins's other Tweets
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    Text - Gramma @IAmTheCrew I told my then five-year-old son the scar on my back from surgery was where my battery pack went. it was several years before I found out he went weeks worrying that he was also an Android. 50 5:26 AM - May 27, 2019 See Gramma's other Tweets >
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    Text - Oopsie Daisy @daisyoopsie1102 At Christmas there were always gifts from our family cat. I asked my Mom how he bought the gifts and she told me he took his purse and walked downtown. Believed it for years. 51 6:02 AM - May 27, 2019 > See Oopsie Daisy's other Tweets
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    Text - Impossible Girl @1impossible_grl It dawned on me in my 20s that driving with your interior light on is not illegal, DAD! (Realized when talking to a friend whose dad said the same) Also, I told my daughter it was illegal because let's face it, it's annoying. 133 4:09 AM - May 27, 2019 16 people are talking about this
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    Text - Lizzie Martinez STAND WITH @lizmart8 REAMES @theblogess My older brothers told me that I was adopted from Kmart and I was a #bluelightspecial. They told me no one wanted me so Kmart paid my parents to adopt me I was terrified every time we went to Kmart that I was being returned 36 5:28 AM - May 27, 2019 See Lizzie Martinez's other Tweets
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    Text - Jennifer Smith @JenBSmith My mom did not want to buy an overpriced lunch for me at the zoo so she told me the burgers were ground up animals that didn't behave. 120 4:33 AM - May 27, 2019 See Jennifer Smith's other Tweets
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    Text - Meagan Parisian @meaganpari My Dad told me that the button to turn on your emergency lights was actually the self destruct button for the vehicle, blowing it up instantly. I had a meltdown at 16 when he pulled over and turned them on by pushing the button, thinking we were all going to die. 29 5:23 AM - May 27, 2019 Il's other Tweets See Meagan Parisian
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    Text - Dale @HowellDale My parents BOTH told me I was born with a tail - the devil's child - but luckily the doctors cut it off quickly. In our 20s one of my sisters still believed I had a vestigial tail removed at birth. I am a redhead. The middle child. The evil one. SMFH 47 5:07 AM - May 27, 2019 See Dale's other Tweets
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    Text - rachel mcgowan @rachelllita my dad told me that mall security guards hid inside mirror pillars in department stores to watch for theft. my empathetic self waved hello at every mirror pillar for years, just so they'd feel less lonely. 40 5:58 AM - May 27, 2019 See rachel mcgowan's other Tweets
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    Text - Shari Homan @SuperShar01 My dad told me the pill my mom took every day were her crazy pills because I drove her nuts. They were her birth control pills. 83 4:03 AM - May 27, 2019 See Shari Homan's other Tweets
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    Text - Josh Pollard @fumangoo Mom had me convinced that showering while there was audible thunder would absolutely result in lightning striking me through the water 92 4:00 AM - May 27, 2019 > 19 people are talking about this
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    Text - Orangutangles @KettleUp My mother used to bite both ends off of my hotdog to "let the hot out" so I would not get burned. She admitted this was a lie just last year. 249 3:21 AM - May 27, 2019 2 17 people are talking about this
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    Text - I live in Oklahoma. Send a raft. @MsDucky42 When my mom wanted me to be quiet, she'd point to the radio and say "listen... they're singing about you." ..they were never singing about me. 58 3:54 AM - May 27, 2019 See I live in Oklahoma. Send a raft.'s other Tweets
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    Text - Marcella @rageyhistorian My mom used to tell me-and lots of other little kids-she was the witch in the woods that puts little children in the oven if they get too close. She did this so we wouldn't touch a hot oven but I STILL HAVE TROUBLE TAKING STUFF OUT OF THE OVEN, 25+ years later. 63 4:19 AM - May 27, 2019 See Marcella's other Tweets
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    Text - Stephanie Hohn @Val_eris My dad told me if I stood near a microwave it would 'fry my eggs and I still instinctively want to move to the other side of the room when I use one. 31 3:42 AM - May 27, 2019 > See Stephanie Hohn's other Tweets
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    Text - Solid Gold Robot @SolidGoldRobot SCIENCE Someone at work was told by her mother that the iced cream truck was just "the music truck", and she didn't know it sold iced cream until she was like 10 years old. 65 3:45 AM - May 27, 2019 See Solid Gold Robot's other Tweets >
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    Text - B Kelly Haskins @nwkmom My dad told me that the refrigerator would tip over onto me if I kept standing there too long with the fridge door open. I still get antsy if I stand there with the door open for any length of time. 27 5:24 AM - May 27, 2019 Kelly Haskins's other Tweets See
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    Text - My mom told me I ate raw cookie dough I'd get "flour worms". I was 22 & baking cookies with friends when I found out it was a big fat lie. I warned them about the risk of flour worms - and have never lived it down. 95 4:29 AM - May 27, 2019 See Melissa Mueller's other Tweets
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    Text - Jeffrey Lax @JeffreyLax My dad told me that our freezer didn't get cold enough for ice cream, unlike my grandparents' refrigerator. I realized this had been a lie around age 40 323 3:36 AM - May 27, 2019 24 people are talking about this
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    Text - Damn it, Allison @AllisonLuther My parents told me it was illegal to play a radio outside in Canada. We were camping & they didn't want to listen to Debbie Gibson & Tiffany constantly. It worked until I tried to report a fellow camper for listening to music. 147 4:15 AM - May 27, 2019 See Damn it, Allison's other Tweets
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    Text - Shannon @shannonigans365 @TheBloggess As a child my Dad convinced me boogers were bugs that crawled up your nose and died while you slept. I believed this for longer than will ever admit. 29 4:53 AM - May 27, 2019 See Shannon's other Tweets
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    Text - Jennifer Blair @lairbay 3h Replying to @TheBloggess If you eat that you'll get worms. Walk barefoot? You'll get worms. Don't scratch that, you'll get worms. I used to believe worms were a far bigger problem than they are. Jessica Smarr @jessica_smarr My kindergarten teacher told us that we shouldn't sit on the ground outside because worms would crawl up our butts. I didn't sit on the ground for at least two years after that. 36 3:32 AM - May 27, 2019 See Jessica Smarr's other Tweets
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