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Hey, there’s no shame in admitting it…
You believed a lot of dumb lies when you were a kid, didn’t you?
I did too! So don’t even worry about it!
Now let’s see if the lies you believed are on the same level as these folks who were nice enough to share their stories on AskReddit.
Take a look!
1. The button fairy.
“When I was a child, I got upset after a button came off of my shirt.
My mother told me not to worry and that if I placed the button under a rock in the yard, the button fairy would replace it with a quarter.
I believed it, and to my mother’s dismay, she discovered I had pulled the buttons off of every shirt in my closet. To this day, 40 years later, shirt buttons can still be found under random rocks in my parents’ backyard.”
2. The letter.
“I was 7 years old. One of my teachers wanted us to write a letter to a family member or friend or someone. I wrote the letter.
Got the envelope. Got the stamp. My mom had worked at the county jail at the time and she suggested I write one of the inmates who never got mail. So I did. I wrote something along the lines of “I’m sorry you’re arrested but I hope you get out.” I even signed it with my 7 year old signature.
While I was writing the letter my mom had left to get to the store. I asked my older brother what our address was because I needed to put a return address. He said:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC 20500. For those that don’t know, that’s the address to The White House.
I wrote it on the letter and put it with the mail my mom was sending out. Mind you, I grew up in Michigan and never left the state but I wasn’t smart.
Years later I went to pick my mom up from work and one of the CO’s called me Mr. President and I asked why he said that. He mentioned the letter I wrote years prior and how it was a joke in the jail any time my mom mentioned me.”
3. A real talent.
“When my sister and I were kids, our mom lied and told us that she was a Grammy nominated and winning singer.
She said that all of the trophies were in our attic, knowing that neither of us would ever go in and check for them. My sister and I bragged to all of our friends about it for years, only to discover that our mom isn’t a very good singer at all.
We’ve held this lie over her head for nearly 20 years now, so this past Christmas, we gifted her with a fake Grammy that has her name engraved and her favorite music category citing her as the winner of it. She laughed until she cried.”
4. Can’t control it.
“Sometimes when we asked for McDonald’s my dad would say no but turn in anyway and say the car was doing it by itself.
I believed him every time and thought the car was just my homie.”
5. No pizza for you.
“My parents convinced us that the person knocking on our door on weekend nights when we were asleep was our uncle Shiloh stopping to say hello.
We don’t have an uncle Shiloh. It was the pizza guy.”
6. Don’t touch it.
“When I was a kid my dad told me it cost 25 cents to change the radio station to keep me from f**king with the radio in his car.
I believed that until I was 14.”
7. Cops and donuts.
“My dad told me that the reason why police officers spend so much time at donut shops is because the shop owners actually need them there to shoot the holes in the pastries to provide them with the classic donut shape.
I found out this was a lie when my dad caught me trying to get behind the counter at Dunkin Donuts one time because I “wanted to see the shooting.””
8. Pinching.
“My grandmother told me that pinching gave cancer.
I got pinched once at recess and yelled at the person because I thought they were going to give me cancer.”
9. I believed this, too!
“My mom rented “The Neverending Story” and my dad told me if I tried to watch it i’d have to sit there forever because it never ended.
I remember being thankful for my dad’s warning and wondering why mom would do that to me.”
10. Found out too late.
“The button on your armrest on airplanes is the eject button.
I found out it reclines your seat embarrassingly late.”
11. I’ve heard this one before.
“My dad told me he didn’t have a middle name because his parents couldn’t afford one. I believed this for a shockingly long time.
I had no reason to doubt him and I knew his family was poor…”
12. Get out fast!
“That the draining sound of the water in the bathtub was a monster that would suck you in as well.
A lie made to get me out of the bath.”
What dumb lies did you believe when you were a kid?
Tell us your stories in the comments.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
