Unbelievable Childhood Memories you believed were true 😆

We are currently in the throes of a similar untruth to my granddaughter.

She's not a great eater, but does love a Sunday roast. But she is adamant she doesn't like lamb.

So we have convinced her that what she's eating is a very rare brown chicken, that is only bred in Scotland, is very expensive, and only certain licenced butchers are allowed to sell it. And that's why we don't have it very often.

She clears the plate, needless to say . She did give me a bit of a look one day, and said "if I find out this is lamb, I won't be happy"

The French call dandelions “pis en lit”. Wet the bed. When small I thought they must wet the bed a lot because they use dandelion leaves in salads.

On the dandelion mentions, where I lived when a child dandelions were known as pee the beds!

My Dad told me the cows, sheep and horses in sloping fields were specifically bred with two legs longer so they didn't fall over

Jesus as a man returning from the dead!

Eating the crusts on well done (burnt) toast would make me a good singer. Always enjoyed singing, still in a choir so I must have been convinced!

My mum always told me she was 20 something (she was 34 when I was born!). This was because we had a nosey neighbour and she did not want her to know her real age. I recall saying to mum having established her birth year - how come you are only 29?

I was extremely thin as a child and my granddad said I should be careful in the bath, if I pulled the plug out while I was still in the water I'd disappear down the plughole - and so started a lifelong fear of plugholes! I can't bring myself to touch one even now, 60 something years later. And don't get me started on those awful, scary baths with the plughole in the middle........I'm shuddering at the thought...

merlin

Fascinating thread. The only one I ever remember believing was not to pick dandelions because they would make you wet the bed. That one is very loosely based on fact as dandelion leaves are a diuretic but how did it morph into picking dandelions having that effect?

I remember that too. Also that holding a buttercup under soneone’s chin to see if the yellow was reflected, proved that you liked or disliked butter. One sister didn’t like butter, so we always told her there was no reflection, to keep her happy.

Fascinating thread. The only one I ever remember believing was not to pick dandelions because they would make you wet the bed. That one is very loosely based on fact as dandelion leaves are a diuretic but how did it morph into picking dandelions having that effect?

I remembered my mother saying if you eat raw pastry you'll get worms! Trying to stop me eating it obviously but I believed her for a long time 😂

My father told us ( well, actually told my mother so we would overhear) that, as he was cracking an egg into the frying pan, a chicken flew out, straight through the kitchen window!
My brother and I stood by the cooker every time eggs were being cooked for months!

I was told if I ate the pips I would get appendicitis

My mum used to ask us if we needed to go to wee before we went out anywhere. If I said no then she’d look me in the face and tell me that she could tell by my eyes that I needed to and
I would then go to wee before we left.
I always believed that there must’ve been wee coming out of my eyes for her to know I had a wee to do!

Sorry, CHIMES!

When my two daughters were small are used to tell them that the times they heard from the ice cream van was in fact the vicar going on his rounds. They actually believed me and have only just started to forgive me!

My grandmother told me that if I put my hands in the water that eggs had been boiled in, I would get warts on my hands. Still never use that water for anything!

Gin

When I asked my Dad why a car had a plate with GB it he explained that when learning you had L plates and the GB was for when you had passed your driving test but were still ‘ getting better’! This was in the early fifties when not many people took their cars overseas.

If GB stands for Getting Better what does the new UK sticker stand for, I wonder?

Oldnproud- me too! My mum & gran had loads of 'old sayings' as they were called- but i never believed a word.I sometimes caught myself repeating one or two to my kids though, and they never listened to them either!

Being able to see in the dark by fighter pilots eating carrots was a wartime disinformation campaign to fool the Germans that we didn't have aircraft radar. It didn't much fool them (they had radar too) but obviously fooled a lot of us.

I must have asked my my son if he thought money grew on trees too often.

He planted 2p and watched a weed grow with excitement. He was sad that no money grew!

In the 50’s all the kids from our road played outside. One girl was a few years older than my sister and I and one day told us about a boy who was sucked into the pipe at our local swimming pool and washed out to sea. We lived about 10 miles from the sea but believed every word and were horrified. Of course the minute we told our mum she knew immediate where the tale had come from. I think I still half believed it for quite a while!

If you sit too close to the telly you’ll have square eyes!

My Dad used to grow tomatoes in the greenhouse and I used to go in and eat them straight from the vine. My Nanna used to tell me that I would get appendicitis from the seeds getting stuck in my appendix! Didn’t stop me!

Twinkletwinkle" what a beautiful story of a family tradition, started by your father. What a lovely daddy and grandad.