So, it's Monday morning here and I'm snuggled up on the couch watching really bad morning TV. Yes, I should be at work, but alas I am ill and am spending the day resting.
I've just watched a funny story on 'little white lies our parents told us' and it got me thinking about the white lies my own mother told me (at the time I believed her, now I laugh - and admittedly find myself saying them to my twin niece and nephew).
So, here are some doozies my mother told me - oddly enough, most revolve around food!
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Eat the crusts it'll turn your hair curly...
While I cannot live without my InStyler, this is a blatant lie! I deliberately ate only the crusts for years, no curly hair for me! Just frizz!
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If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your belly...
I've swallowed my share of melon seeds, and while I have a belly, I seriously doubt I have a watermelon growing inside me!
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Just eat it, it's only chicken...
Yeah right! Turned out to be kidney. And it doesn't take like chicken!
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When Mr Whippy (the ice cream truck) plays the music it means it's out of ice cream...
I'm still in therapy for this lie! Yet, I actually use this on my niece and nephew! *shame*
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The dog went to live on a farm...
Scottie* - we still miss you!
*the photo is of an 'imitation' Scottie - no pictures survive of the real one as our house burned down when I thirteen
So, these are some of the little white lies my mother told me - why not share some of your own? And, now that you're a parent/aunt/uncle/etc, do you use any of them on the little people in your life?
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