The things my parents told me… and i believed them

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Being told so many little white lies and the most outrages things so many times….just makes you even more gullible.

I posted a comment in the What’s the weirdest thing you used to believe in when you were younger? page about this but im gonna tell you anyways. my parents would tell me these “little white lies” to stop me from doing something, like whose parents dont tell lies to their kids? anyway one of those lies were, i quote: Honey, you better be careful because if someone kidnaps you, they’ll turn you into a hamburger and eat you!(end) …. omigush who would tell their kids that?! well my mom did and i was only 3 or 4 and, of course, i believed her. i went through my childhood avoiding anyone who looked like they would turn me into a hamburger… but stangely i still ate hamburgers then even from the fear of being turned into one. now older and smarter i only use that to make fun of my cuz. my sister and his brother and i would make fun him saying that if he gets kidnapped, he’d be the Ultimate Hamburger! which was funny cause he was kinda chubby ^^;

Where do the lies end?! not here because parents just love teasing little preschoolers till their eyes widen with fear and awe. another thing my parents told me was, quote: Oh, no! You shouldn’t swallow your gum or your belly button would swirl and disappear! So spit it out over there(end)… what a shock i had from that. after my parents told me that i ran to the bathroom to see if the gum i just swallowed made my belly button swirl, luckily it didn’t. i was so aware of what i was eating since then and made sure that i spat out my gum. i think there was even a time where i was so afraid, i had avoid gum chewing and chewers for some time. once i had told my chubby cuz about this and he went wide eyed…with laughter so i kicked his fat butt and he fell flat on his face, ah good times ^^.

While still on the topic of dangerous artifacts that should avoid being swallowed my, of course, parents made up another joke to tease me about while i was enjoying a very sweet and juicy watermelon, quote: Oh, hey. be careful not to swallow those seeds if you don’t want a watermelon to grow in your stomach(end)… as they said that i was picturing my self with a watermelon in my stomach and then exploding. so when ever we had watermelon i made sure every single seed, even the harmless white ones, were gone. it took forever to get every seed off so while i was still picking seeds off, other family members around me were already on their third piece. once i was so angry that other people were eating more than me that i just stuffed giant pieces of watermelon in my mouth making sure to avoid at least the bitter black seeds. i ate the most but i also had a horrible stomach ache. during the stomach ache i was praying to god to not let me explode, a 4 or 5 year old kid praying for her life! thats not normal. of course, after the pain i figured out that the seeds wont make you explode…or grow a giant fruit in your stomach. so now i live on with the pleasure of eating watermelons… slowly.

it was a very strange childhood for me. ^^ so did your parents ever tell outrages things to you? or was it just my crazy and scary-humored parents?

JeJuNe @ October 26, 2007