Someone asked about the lies people were told when they were kids – 19 people who had a sudden, tragic moment of adult realisation
11.
‘When I was a lot younger, every time my dad drove me through the Tyne tunnel he’d look up and go ‘Woah, did you see the size of that fish?’. For years and years I honestly believed you could see fish swimming about above and I was just missing the windows every time.’
–ahoneybadger3
12.
‘My dog Brandy was up at a farm getting trained to stop running after cars. He’ll be back in six weeks.’
–celtsno1
13.
‘I used to get frequent tummy aches when I was a kid, caused by tension and nerves. Dad told me eating a tomato cures tummy ache, and it always worked. I was 23 when I realised in a flash that a tomato only cured my tummy ache because I thought it would.’
–FirmEcho5895
14.
‘My mum knew every single dinner lady and person that worked on the shop and would report back to her any misdemeanour. She told me sister she knew she rolled her skirt up at the bus stop because somebody saw her do it and told her. My mum knew she would do it so played on it.’
–Scottyrubix
15.
‘When I was about three I would just waltz into my neighbours house as I pleased, I walk in and see she’s filing her nails but I’d never seen that before, so I asked what she was doing. She smiled and said ‘Oh my thumb is annoying me, I do this to get rid of it and a different one will grow back’.
‘I was terrified of nail files for years, even when I realised embarrassingly late that that’s not possible. I still feel funny about them now!’
–louilou96
16.
‘That I’d literally turn into a donkey if I didn’t go to school (thanks, Pinocchio!).’
–Smooth-Purchase1175
17.
‘Hamley’s toy store In London had fleas in the carpet and that’s why we couldn’t go.’
–penguins12783
18.
‘On a culinary note, my dad told me when I was about 9 that Dr Peppers was black pepper flavoured and disgusting. I didn’t try it until I was about 23.’
–ThisIsAnAccount2306
19.
‘I was in my early 30s when I regaled my own children with the tale of how ‘Grandma (my mum) never had to bin any of my artwork, she had a big office and could display it all at work, it brightened up the place’, as they had all bemoaned the fact I would rotate their finger paintings in their younger years on the fridge and walls.
‘There were five of them, I felt so guilty recycling all the many paintings and colourings from school and I had kept SO many in shoe boxes for years!
‘My mum was present for this conversation and promptly starts pissing herself laughing, saying that all my glorious artwork did indeed make it into her work, but universally into the big office shredder. My kids all then laughed too. A sad day for me.’
–reticulatedbanana
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