‘What benign lies did your family tell you as a kid?’ – 22 incredibly wholesome little fibs
12.
‘My dad said that we needed our passports to visit up North. I’m on the south coast and have family in Leeds. He really brought them with us at least once and got them out at Watford Gap services.’
–vj_c
13.
‘If you put too much vinegar on your chips it will make your bones soft.’
–StationFar6396
14.
‘If you poke your belly button, your bum will fall off.’
–FrankSpencer9
15.
‘When my sister and I were going through the record collection, my mum told us that if we played The Police, it would actually send for the police to come and take us away.’
–sock_cooker
16.
‘That teachers lived at the school and slept inside the supply cupboards.’
–IndividualCurious322
17.
‘My uncle used to tell us his car was saying hello to us when we got close to it. It was years before I realised that he had a fob on his keys that made the car do a wee beep when he pressed it. I was amazed that only his car was able to ‘talk’.’
–LikeEveryoneSheKnows
18.
‘My niece when young was going through a very fussy eating phase where she would refuse to try many foods, even ones she’d had before as suddenly everything was horrible.
‘My sister in a moment of exasperation during a dinner fight that the fish fingers were actually a type a chicken. Boom, from then on everything was chicken – ham was pink chicken, anything beef related was brown chicken, and my favourite was anything that had fish was French chicken. That worked for years!’
–butterflyrattle
19.
‘If my dad dropped fag ash on the floor he’d rub it in with his foot and say ‘good fer carpet.”
–ChipCob1
20.
‘My Dad told me that bananas are actually straight. There’s a banana bending factory they go to, and they also put pips in oranges at the factory. He drew pictures of it and everything. I believed this for longer than I will ever admit.’
–Glittering-Trifle736
21.
‘My Grandad had a moped, he let me go on the back of it once when I was quite young, just up and down the quiet cul-de-sac they lived on. He told me we got all the way up to 100 miles an hour! Believed it for several years until it dawned on me that was definitely not the case.’
–goffshroom
22.
‘My granddad was bald, I remember when I was about five, I asked him where his hair had gone and he told me he had fallen asleep in the garden and the birds plucked his hair out to make their nests.’
–Icy_Ambassador_5846
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