What quirky or odd thing were you told as a child that turned out to be totally false?

Question

I remember being told that if a fly landed on my nose and I looked at it I would remain cross-eyed forever!
Another crazy thing , and I dont know where this came from, if you put mustard on a potato chip it will taste like bologna!

Answer 1

1. Drinking milk while eating fish was deadly

2. It is dangerous to perm your hair before you get surgery

3. My mother had 7 children, and said every one of us was "grown to her backbone" and that's why she had such a hard time in labor.

4. Laying a cold pair of scissors on your neck will stop a nosebleed.

5. enemas are good for you if you are sick

6. Going out in the cold causes colds

... I could go on and on.

Answer 2

I was told by my mum (or misunderstood totally) that if i pressed the button for the green man to appear so i could cross the road and then didn't Icross the roade (just held up all the traffic) I would be arrested.

This happened once and i thought i was going to be arrested for about a week, i was too scared to tell my mum i had done it because she might have to tell the police what i had done.

Sad but true.

Answer 3

When I was a child my Grandfather told me if I put salt on a birds tail It couldn't fly and I could catch it. He was messing with me.

Later when I was about 16, my Grandfather tried playing another trick on me like that. We had a lot of wild turkeys there and people hunted then all the time. I wanted to go hunting so I got my bow. Just as I was leaving my Grandfather called to me and said you don't need the bow hand, you can catch birds, remember.

I laughed but he looked serious so being naive and young I walked into the woods and caught a wild turkey bare handed and came back out of the woods with it.

My grandfather looked like he was going to faint, and then he smiled. Turns out I wasn't suppose to be-able to catch a wild turkey bare handed, and my grandfather only said that because the others didn't want me (a girl) to go hunting with them, couldn't refuse me then. lol. good memories.

Answer 4

Santa Claus

Answer 5

I was told that frogs/ toads would give me warts if I came in contact with them, though I've picked them up plenty of times and it hasn't happened... yet. And then there is a whole list of false superstitions that people have told me and have never come true. I mean... how do you measure bad luck in the first place?

Answer 6

You could write a book with all this info~GO FOR IT! I'll buy it! I laughed out loud at some of this crap!!!! Too GOOD!
I was told you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail.
"Someday your face will freeze like that." (However, a high school drama teacher told me I should go to Hollywood ...hm...)
Eat a watermelon seed and you'll grow a melon in your stomach
That pregnant lady ATE a watermelon seed...! (yeah, 2 different tales.....sigh)
okokokokok, I once told my daughter the rice in her chicken and rice soup was maggots....................sigh....lmao, she didn't eat chicken n rice soup for YEARS!
You can get pregnant from kissin'......dam, I'd have 12 bajillion kids by now!)
Lord have mercy, how this list goes on..............

Answer 7

My parents told me they found me under a gooseberry bush.

... if the owners are reading this and would like to collect thier son...

No, I don't know what or where the gooseberry bush idea came from. But now you've got me thinking about it; I think I'll ask...

Answer 8

if i unscrewed my belly button my butt would fall off. Also my dad said at every Christmas dinner the main course was raindeer. Don't know if those count. I guess i had a pretty weird family huh.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

A teacher I had in high school once told me, "you are not going to make it" I have been a homeowner since age 22.