Fibs your parents told you as a child

[GreenCaterpillarOnALeaf]

I’ll go first:

• My dad told me that under the “J2Os prohibition and monitoring act 2005” children were only allowed one J2O in a pub per visit because they have too much sugar in.
• He also told me that I hatched out of a cocoon instead of being born (none of my other siblings hatched it was just me).
• My mum told my brother he’s ginger because she drank too much orange juice when she was pregnant.
• My uncle told me he scrapped polar bears in Canada and that’s how he got his face.

But possibly did she mean she was given it, or acquired it, from a big house where it was actually used as a dinner gong?

Maybe!

If you dig deep enough in the sand, you'll come out in Australia

Here (US) it was 'dig straight through to China'. One day my little friends and I were busily digging under the big tree in our backyard. We hit a root and my older brother told us it was the devil's horn and that if we kept digging we'd dig through to hell. We believed him and ran away. I made my dad go and fill in that hole so the devil wouldn't get out. To this day it seems to me that we'd dug really deep, but I expect it was probably only 2 feet or so.

My nanna told me there was a little man inside the cash machine who ironed all the money so that was why it was warm and uncrinkled when it came out of the dispenser (early 80’s, long before the plasticky notes). I believed this for longer than I should have.

I actually love that and choose to believe it. I also always say thank you to the little man (I thought I was saying thank you to the robots in case of a revolution).

My mum said if we swore she'd wash our mouths out with soap and water.
She did this to my eldest sister. I was nearly fifty before she heard me swear.

God was moving furniture when it thundered.

My parents told us kids that if we could hear the ice cream van playing a tune it meant that the ice cream had sold out so not to bother asking for an ice cream.

My grandma had a dinner gong as well. Her house (ordinary town house) had electric servant bells as well, with a board in one room to show which one was being rung. I thought she must have had servants once, but this was not true.

So did my previous house, built 1880. They definitely had servants when it was built, though not unfortunately when I lived in it 100 years later.....