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I heard the same warning when I was a child. Watching too much “Bonanza” or “Star Trek” would make my eyes fall out. A warning, given at a time when we only watched TV at night, perhaps for an hour or two.
Oh, the tales we hear when we are children.
The heavenly bowling tournament was a reasonable explanation for thunder.
We had to leave the zoo, because then, after we all had left, they would let the animals run free. Also, and I found this surprising even as a child, I had magical power, I could ‘make’ the weather. “If you don’t finish eating, there will be bad weather.”
The stories they told us all:
- 🥦Broccoli and spinach create muscles!
- 🤪Making faces for too long was dangerous; it could stay that way forever!
- 👃🏼The nose grows from lying!
- 👶🏼The babies are brought by the stork!
- 🛣️It won’t be long now, we’ll be there soon!
- 🌳You ate the apple seeds? Now a tree is growing out of you!
Don’t swallow the chewing gum, or your stomach will be glued together. Another good one. Of course, I believed it. I was also scared senseless. I knew I had swallowed a few, but it looked like it had only glued half of my stomach.
“Don’t roll your eyes. They might get stuck, and you will look like this forever.” (Seems to have worked lol)
“Don’t drink water for an hour after you eat cherries or plums, or you could die.” I survived!
And now, after writing this, I am smiling, that’s all I wanted.
Smiling. 😊 thanks.
I heard the angels were bowling for thunder and then when I met my ex-husband it was ‘tater wagons rolling (not sure how potatoes were grown in the sky but…). What a wonderful trip down memory lane.
Such power we had if we were gullible enough
So true, we had superpowers. 🙂
Oh, my goodness, I was told nearly all of those, and believed almost all of them. “Bonanza and Star Trek,” I’ve seen every single episode, multiple times! Wonderful share!
So funny what were told, no matter where we grew up, it’s almost the same everywhere.
Indeed!
Huh! Of course babies are brought by the stork . . . and the nose gets long and sharp from lying . . . and spinach grows muscles . . . my Mom and Dad did not lie , did not, did not . . . 🙂 !!!
The one with the stork doesn’t go far when you live on a far, but the rest, yes, they lied to me and lied to me again. According to my grandma I have an apple farm in my stomach.
Great imagination 😂
So true, adults have imagination after all. 🙂
You got me smiling as well. thanks
I am glad.
Haha! My mother used to tell me not to wash my hair often because it would fall out. 🙂
Oh, how funny. I was told I had to wash my hair (before it was cut off) because if not, wasps would build a nest in it.
I worked in hospital emergency registration for five years as a second job. We occasionally would get someone who had dirty hair that flies had laid eggs in and established a maggot’s nest. 😪
Yikes. That’s terrible
I smiled too! That is good. Thunder is God getting his coal delivered!
Oh, that’s even better than the bowling tournament 🙂