‘What’s the silliest thing you actually got someone to believe?’ – 22 people who were gullible beyond all reason

13.

‘I used to work with a woman who was a vegetarian. One day she came in carrying a coconut milk drink and I told her she shouldn’t be drinking it because ‘Coconuts have hair and give milk, so they are technically mammals’.

She was horrified and thanked me for letting her know. Later that day she came to me and said she’d told her friend who was a vegan and she was grateful to me for letting her know too. She left the company a few weeks later, still believing it…’
–Coralwood

14.

‘Used to travel a lot by train with the family. Convinced the kids to look out for the pink elephants hiding in the trees on the way to the coast. Worked quite well for a while.’
–amlarobot64

15.

‘My sister is insanely gullible and will believe anything said in a serious tone. Once on a family holiday I her aside in the airport and told her she can’t go through the metal detectors with a bra on. So of course she panics and the next thing I see is a pink frilly bra on one of those trays going through the luggage scanner and a very confused security guy. She still hasn’t forgiven me for that one.’
–Careless_Bicycle7567

16.

‘Once told someone it was 30 mins to fly Glasgow – Dublin, but 45 mins to fly Dublin – Glasgow as it takes longer because you are flying uphill.’
–Academic_Visual116

17.

‘When we were kids, I told my little sister left and right were the other way round for your legs than for your arms.’
–UnremarkableSnow

18.

‘I told wife whilst out walking that it’s an urban myth that moles make molehills. Still believes.’
–nonoanddefinitelyno

19.

‘A few years ago a guy tweeted that Aberdeen were going to sign a Turkish striker called Yerdas Selzavon (For the uninitiated, ‘Yer da sells Avon’ is a Scottish insult, implying one’s father has rather effeminate employment).

Sky Sports then claimed the exclusive.’
–Street-Frame1575

20.

‘Me and my dad convinced my niece that the farmer was spraying the potatoes in the field with salt water so they would be ready salted crisps.’
–SaltyName8341

21.

‘My primary schoolmates believed I made up the entire song for ‘Glory Glory Man United’. Never understood how someone hadn’t heard it.’
–ZealousidealClue2500

22.

‘My boss, that I couldn’t get to work because they’d closed the Scottish border. It was on April Fools’ too, he absolutely didn’t clock it and was apparently asking round if anyone could cover for me.’
–IVIayael

And a bonus one for luck.

‘I went on a year 10 school trip to France. I told my friend, who didn’t go, how nice it was and how cute it was that the cats in France say ‘le mew’. She bought it!’
–littlepunny

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