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And so the deceit from dcs childhood catches up with me....

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Caughtinmyweboflies · 31/07/2025 21:01

What started as an innocent conversation has turned into a confession session, and my 21yo is shocked.

We were talking about a band he listened to as a kid (JLS if you're interested), and it came about that I told him when he was maybe 5 or 6 that their names were Aston, JB, Colin and Jeff (couldn't remember the other 2s names) and he just never questioned it for all these years.

As the conversation went on I had to confess to a multitude of things like dropping cool metal things ahead of him when he was out with his metal detector, he thought he was just really lucky, he thought he saw a meteor hit earth when he was about 8, they were doing a thing at school where an 'alien' crashed into earth and they did a whole term around teaching the alien stuff, so the night before I stood outside his bedroom window with a stereo and a flashlight, and he saw and heard this meteor and just never questioned it.

All in all I had to confess to maybe 10 things that I did to make his childhood magical and he is shook.

He's very clever, at uni, paying his own way by working full time, own flat etc, but he just never really questioned anything (also autistic and takes everything at face value as we have learned in the last few years).

I'm sitting here wracking my brains to other stuff I have done now.

(Lighthearted, he is actually very grateful and thanked me then got a bit teary, after he told me off 🤣)

Anyone else had innocent lies catch up with them?

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3luckystars · 31/07/2025 21:07

I only found out last year that the black bit at the end of bananas isn’t ‘poisonous’

It was by accident, as I was with my mother and she told one of the grandchildren that something was ‘poisonous’ and I said ‘no it isn’t’ then I realised that lots of other things she said were poisonous, are not either.
Like melted ice cream.

I told my own children lots of things over the years too that are not exactly true either.

madnessitellyou · 31/07/2025 21:07

Dd left her very favourite baby dolly in a hotel room. The hotel did find it but wanted €45 to ship it to us. Said baby was still sold by Asda. So we bought a new one and told her it’d had stayed longer on holiday to visit the spa, which was why it was all clean now.

We confessed a few years ago. She said she knew something wasn’t quite right but appreciated our efforts Grin.

Bgasfraudfraud · 31/07/2025 21:10

We bought a fossil and hid it in the sand somewhere along the Jurassic coast. DC dug it up and was so happy. Years later 18 year old DC was with us at a museum looking at a fossil display and proudly recounted the day he found one! Me and DH had to hold it together.

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Rosybud88 · 31/07/2025 21:10

Really random but my mum told me that Carol Vorderman and Richard Whitely were married when I watched Countdown as a young girl. To this day she can’t explain such a pointless lie.

mumonthehill · 31/07/2025 21:14

As a child my mum told me that my goldfish had been sad and gone to live in grandma's pond. I spent years talking to that fish in that pond every time we visited and only as an adult did dm confess the fish had died and it was all a lie!

Liliwen · 31/07/2025 21:39

My brother was crap at swimming so my mum paid for him to have 1:1 coaching, telling him it was because he was really good. When I mentioned my own child having 1:1 lessons a few years ago, my brother asked if she was really good like he had been? I did have to burst his bubble and was really surprised he still assumed he had been some great child swimmer even in his 30s

TartanMammy · 31/07/2025 21:50

I have a friend who told me in all seriousness about her dog going to stay on a farm 😭.

I believed the whole world was black and white until I was born (thanks dad!). I was too old when I found out this is not true.

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Caughtinmyweboflies · 31/07/2025 22:02

These are hilarious.

I did have to tell ds some years ago that peach schnappes isn't really spicy, I used to say it when he was younger and I had the occasional one, he would ask for a sip and I knew he hated spicy food and so, yet another, lie was born.

I definitely know I've said some things around Christmas and the tooth fairy.

Once he was going to his dad's on xmas eve and he was doing Xmas there, he asked how santa knew and I said we had to file some paperwork to get him to go a day early to his dad's and the to mine on xmas - then I had chose to type up some paperwork and send an acceptance email to myself to make it more believable.

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zaazaazoom · 31/07/2025 22:06

Well I don't want to break it to my teens yet but the ice-cream can might still have some ice-cream, even if the music is playing...

TheShyMumX · 31/07/2025 22:16

Not lies I’ve told mine but ones I was told and believed.

  1. my grandad had a sort of ski slips nose and he told me it was because he used to wipe his runny nose on his sleeve cuffs as a boy - I believed it and always made sure not to wipe my nose in an ‘up’ direction and definitely not use my cuffs!
  2. i also remember overhearing my older cousin be told by my aunt (her Nan) that boys wouldn’t fancy her if she bit her nails and I never bit my nails short ever again😂
Unicorn34 · 31/07/2025 22:19

I actually used one of my childhood ones with my 8 yr old grandson yesterday.

My dad used to tell me to pull the curtains if I needed to get dressed as the seagulls may be watching (just being protective i guess!) - my grandson likes to be naked at home at times, but usually when its ok for him to be so. I turned up unannounced yesterday and said that he needed to put pants on as the window was open and the seagulls may be hungry!

Holliegee · 31/07/2025 22:24

TartanMammy · 31/07/2025 21:50

I have a friend who told me in all seriousness about her dog going to stay on a farm 😭.

I believed the whole world was black and white until I was born (thanks dad!). I was too old when I found out this is not true.

I fear i may be your friend !! I was in my 40s and casually chatting to a girl who used to live near me, our dog had bitten her and she still had the scar and i said in all innocence about the dog (Mitzi) being really bad tempered and having to go and live on a farm in Blackpool where she’d have fields to run in - I was in my 40s and had believed this since I was 8!!!

Mugcake · 31/07/2025 22:33

An elderly neighbour told me when I was about 6/7 that hornets don't sting. One had landed on my friends hand and they were panicking. Neighbour casually flicked it away and told us not to worry.
I believed that until I was about 30 when I said it to DP who looked at me like I was stupid. Turns out hornets absolutely can sting you 😅

Curlygirl06 · 31/07/2025 22:37

I told my grandson that the plaster on my face was because I'd been bitten by a shark. He believed me, and when I was in work someone there asked me what happened. Before I had chance to say anything, he jumped in and told them I'd been bitten by a shark. My work mate questioned me deeply, so my grandson filled her in- I'd been swimming in a lake, fought off a shark, got bitten on the face, punched the shark, he did all the actions! He believed it for years.

SammyScrounge · 31/07/2025 22:48

When I was little; we went to Scarborough on holiday. There was a Treasure Island there and pirates walking about getting their phot taken with children. I kept asking my Dad if there was really treasure here and he said yes. He left my sister and me with Mum and went to get cigarettes. When he came back he showed us a good place to dig for treasure and lo and behold we soon dug up 2 half crowns each. A fortune. For years I believed we had found the pirates' hiding place.

BlondieMuver · 31/07/2025 22:50

TartanMammy · 31/07/2025 21:50

I have a friend who told me in all seriousness about her dog going to stay on a farm 😭.

I believed the whole world was black and white until I was born (thanks dad!). I was too old when I found out this is not true.

Seriously... ? 🤣

frugalkitty · 31/07/2025 22:55

I was at uni before I realised that my pet rabbit hadn't actually run away to join the zoo. I used to wonder how it knew the way there, but I totally believed it when I was little.

Smartpic · 31/07/2025 22:57

When DD was 5 and lost her favourite Green Cat toy, I told her that he was found by a kind lady who couldn’t return him straight away because he fell in a puddle so she had to give him a bath, and she also kindly sewed on a new eye on to replace his missing one (to explain the time to deliver the new one, and the miraculous re-growth of his eye).

When DD was 21, I made a BIG MISTAKE. I told her this story as a mildly amusing childhood tale. She yelled about how I destroyed her trust forever, then ran upstairs to fetch Green Cat and threw him dramatically in the dustbin. She didn’t speak to me for 3 days.

Rexthesnail · 31/07/2025 23:00

That I get a weekly email of what theyve been watching on their phone/Netflix

The park was closed a lot

My son when he was younger, asked for an umbrella for months, so I got him one. He chose it, was very excited. So we ordered it to be delivered the next day. Next day came and it hadn't come. Getting him ready for bed and he starts to get very upset. So I sit on his bed and "check where it is" and I turned to him in a theatrical voice said "Ohhhh theyve said its at the umbrella checkers" and made up that the umbrellas have to be checked by someone special who has a rain machine. He ran to his sister to tell her. She looked at me like wtf. He still mentions it sometimes.

A teddy also got hungry in the delivery van so the delivery driver took it to McDonald's and that's why it was late

Tulipvase · 31/07/2025 23:04

My son won a toy in a grab machine on holiday when he was about 4 - he loved it and then dropped down the side of the escalator at the airport. He was absolutely gutted. Then he got over it. Then a couple of days before Christmas he told me it was ok he had lost Cutie as he had asked Father Christmas to bring him back for Christmas…..

I managed to track one down on Amazon but when it arrived it was ten times the size…… we some how got away with that with some cover story about him having been on holiday all that time…..

ChocolateCinderToffee · 31/07/2025 23:06

Hah. When I was two, my mother and I took my teddy to a big department store to get new fur put on because he’d got bald patches. The lady in the shop had been primed beforehand. We looked at all the teddies in the shop and decided on a new fur colour for my teddy and the lady took my teddy through to the back room for five minutes to put the new fur on.

The only thing I found odd was that my old teddy was given back to me in a shiny new box.

Crispyturtle · 31/07/2025 23:07

I told my kids that everyone is born with a tail, but the doctors cut it off when you’re born and that’s why you’ve got an arse crack. No idea why I did it, but they believed me for quite a while and it gave me a good laugh

whatisgoingonandwhy · 31/07/2025 23:09

My DD lost a tooth and we forgot to leave her any money from the tooth fairy. She was upset so we encouraged to try again and left a note from the fairy apologising and saying she had been so tired and had been really busy the night before. DD wrote back to say she was worried about her.

isthatmyage · 31/07/2025 23:12

Telling DD1 that Coco Pops were special hotel food....imagine her delight finding them in the cereal isle in Sainsbo's aged 6 😂

Vitrolinsanity · 31/07/2025 23:15

I told DS that from November onwards it was not possible for children to visit Toys R Us as the stores were used by Santa as re-fuelling stops which explained the sleigh size v present discrepancies.