Ridiculous thing we?ve believed

[NeenBand 7]

My dad told my 3 brothers and I that he was from space. That he crashed his spaceship in the woods and he fell in love with our mother and he was slowly fixing his spaceship over the years. He had us so going on that one for the longest time. He would say he was gathering parts, etc.

My parents told us that cardinals (the red birds) were Santa's Birds, and that they reported to Santa, telling them all they saw. So when we see one, know that Santa is checking in on us to see if we are being good or bad. I don't have children of my own, but I tell other little kids that. When the kids get old enough to know, they always tell me they loved that story. hehehe

[mini_me 3]

something my 3 year old daughter believed...

i am very strict on making my children say "ma'am" and "sir" etc. the other day, my daughter answered my mom by saying only "yes" and not "yes, ma'am." i corrected her by saying "yes, ma'am?" and she looked at my like i was crazy and said, "i got to say yes ma'am? like a stinky boy?" I told her yes, and she said that she wanted to take a bath. evidently, she never notice saying ma'am before. and when i corrected her, she remembered all of the times that i had reminded and corrected my boys.

so now i am trying to connect the whole bath thing with "yes, ma'am." i follow her into the bathroom and she has taken off her panties and is looking the crotch, perplexed. i ask what are you doing, and she says, but my hiney is clean.(pronounced "kween") then she mumbles about stinky bubbas and yes ma'am. i say, hanna, what are you talking about. she gets visibly aggrevated at my ignorance, runs to the boys bathroom, digs in the dirty clothes until she finds a pair of their underwear, points out the skids marks and says..."this is why they are stinky boys, and they always got to say ma'am."

just a curious incident with my baby, it really was cute at the time.

[michelle43mi 2]

My kids are now older ages 31 29 21 19 16 16 14 and when they were about 2 i started telling them not to pick their noses because if they did their eyeballs would pop out and my grandfather had a glass eye he would put his finger in his nose and POP IT LOL i never had a problem with boogies after that .

[onlygo 0]

When my husband and i were first married, i got a kitten. While petting it it started purring. My husband said sadly "Oh poor thing he has that lung disease " His mother, who didnt want a cat for a pet, had told him that if a cat makes that noise it has a lung disease!! He believed it untill he was 30 years old!!!

[onlygo 0]

I told my kids that sweet potatoes were Halloween potatoes that had just been dyed orange. they believed it forever!

[mini_me 3]

i just remembered one of co-workers telling me this...

this fella named billy, very smart man, good sense of humor, could pull the most outrageous scam on you with a straight face... you know the type.

his wife, trish, gullible, sweet, innocent, educated yet gnaive...you know the type.

the cats are outside their bedroom window one night just howling. trish asks billy why are they making that racket. billy says they are breeding. trish ponders this then asks why all the screaming. billy's eyes twinkle with an idea. he tells her, well, trish, you see, male cats have millions of spurs on their peckers, and it is painful for the female cat when they mate. trish says, hmm, unfortunate and rolls over and goes to sleep.

(approx 2 years later)

trish and billy are at a luncheon for one of trish's co-workers birthday. the topic of sleeping the previous night comes up when one of the coworkers had funny kid stories to tell about why she was kept up all night. another co worker mentioned that she was kept up by screaming cats. then she threw in, man, that tom cat must have had some REALLY sharp spurs on his thing. Billy sat up and smiled, and all of trish's coworkers husbands looked at the girl, perplexed. before any of them could interrupt, billy smoothly laid it out for them that this had come up a couple of years ago in a conversation between him and his wife. he was able to deliver the message in a smooth, covert enough manner so that all the fellows picked up on it. NOW--all of the women in this po-dunk town think this is true. (the silly ones anyway, i called "bullshit" as soon as i heard it and asked billy why he would do such a thing)

this derned town's women are split between believers and non-believers. it is really funny...

[mini_me 3]

oh, yeah, my dad has traditionally told children that he killed ALL the dinosaurs, and that he built all of the skyscrapers we have ever seen. we all believed this until we were 10 or so. now my kids believe the same thing. when will the madness end??

[Cheri 0]

Warning~~~~This one is kinda creepy.

My grandma was as crazy as a loon and EXTREMELY religious (you know what I mean). Well, when I was about 4 or so, she came to visit us and roomed with me. Every night before bed, she would close the window and blinds...finally I asked her why she did that. She said that if you leave your blinds open the devil will watch you sleep and if the window is open he will come in and take your soul!!!!

Talk about a messed-up childhood!!!! But, yes, I still have to have the windows down and curtains closed!!!

Maybe some therapy would be useful????

[terri b 0]

My grandmother used to tell me take they found me under a cabbage. I wonder if that makes me the "original cabbage patch kid"?

[NurseTeresa 0]

I use to tell my girls who are now 13 and 14 that if they didn't go to bed and didn't stop playing fighting or whatever it was they were doing that I would have to call the sleep police and that if I had to call them then they would come take them to jail. They believed this until they were about 8 years old. I remember one time I acted as if I were talking to them on the phone and I said ok thank you officer I will let you know in 15 minutes if they went to sleep or not...about 5 min later they heard alot of noise and looked out their bedroom window and started screaming....they thought that the police were really there to come take them to jail and that I had lied about the 15 min call back. I reassured them that they still had 10 minutes and that they were just waiting for the time frame so when the Sleep police called back they had someone there already to take them to jail. Needless to say they fell right to sleep.

I also use to tell them and their older brother who is now 21 that the white lines on their nails were from them telling lies. So when I suspected them of lying I would say.....let me see your hands....If they had a white line I would see I told you I would know! To this day the girls still believe it and will try and keep their nails polished at all times so I cant see if they have lied to me or not.

I am so bad aren't I?

[K@t 38]

I remembered another one. Here in Portugal, when you are served shrimp in almost any restaurant, its with the heads on them (thats considered a good presentation in Portugal) and when my aunt (who is almost 50) came to visit us, she saw the shrimp and asked...what's that, and I told her, it's shrimp...and she was like...well but what's that coming out of it? She was pointing to the head of the shrimp. Apparently she never knew that shrimp had heads, she thought shrimp where what they serve you at Red Lobster (all cleaned and de-veined and de-headed) hehe, it gave my hubby a good laugh....

[Fleur 0]

My mother told me that Elvis died becuase he had too many lollies. That really slowed me up for a couple of years.

[Pattman 0]

OMG! This post has been such fun to read this morning .... only wish I had something to add to it ... oh, wait I have just done so (evil grin)

[JulyBandster 1]

OK - Don't know where I heard this, but somehow I was under the impression that sex happened when a man rubbed his penis against a woman's bellybutton - that terrified me. Now I believed that as a young girl, say ages 10-14 or so. At some point, I must have heard differently, and because it was such a deep seated belief, I turned that around to the man having to FEED the baby that way - that he used his sperm to - uh, saturate - the belly button on the female, and that that helped to feed the baby. I'm embarassed to say I believed that up until about 16 or 17....How weird is that? lol

[shanna 0]

Y'all are too funny! Ok, here's mine...

I grew up in Houston and when I was a kid (8 or 9) my brother was in the Navy and was living somewhere where it snowed. I had never seen snow in person before and so my mom was excited to tell me that it was snowing where Troy lived and wouldn't it be nice if he could mail some to us. I then said, "Oh, but it would melt and the box would be full of milk!"

And, yes, to those who are wondering - I AM blond!