Myths that you were told as kids...

[33girl]

If you write on your skin with an ink pen, it will seep into your bloodstream and kill you.

If bats are flying around they will go for your hair and get stuck in it. (This one took - I'm still terrified of bats)

(Local) There are snakes covering the floor of the empty Reformed Church. I'm sure there was a garden snake or 2 in there, but we were thinking boas.

[Xidelt]

Eat your beets! They make your cheeks rosy.

No, mom, they taste nasty and I have blush in my purse.

[NutBrnHair]

Touching a frog causes warts.

It's bad to sit too close to the T.V.

Tornadoes can't hit Chattanooga, TN because it's surrounded by mountains.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Xidelt

Eat your beets! They make your cheeks rosy.

No, mom, they taste nasty and I have blush in my purse.

Eat your beets & carrots or your hair won't stay red.

[clarinette]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Touching a frog causes warts.

It's bad to sit too close to the T.V.

Tornadoes can't hit Chattanooga, TN because it's surrounded by mountains.

Sorry, but being from the area (kinda), LOL at the bolded.

[aephi alum]

If you keep making that face, your face will freeze that way.

You shouldn't use tampons until you're "older".

(Gentlemen, you may want to skip past the next bit ......)

I had my first period when I was 12 1/2. A few months later, Aunt Flow came to visit right before Halloween. I had a skintight costume and did NOT want a big bulky pad showing. My mother introduced me to the wonderful world of tampons. I was just shy of 13. I have never gone back. Anyone who tells a preteen or young teen that she shouldn't use tampons is full of malarkey (with apologies to Joe Biden ).

[ThetaPrincess24]

--If you let your arm or leg hang off the side of the bed when you go to sleep, something will come out from under the bed and grab you.

While I know that is not true, I'm still funny about that to this day!

[EtaPhiZTA]

I have heard lots of these before but the funniest (or perhaps most inappropriate) one has to be what my mother told my brother (and his teenage friends) growing up. . . once a boy (or young man) uses his penis, it will stop growing. I still remember my brother and his friends' faces 25 years later.

[GeorgiaGreek]

Originally Posted by EtaPhiZTA

I have heard lots of these before but the funniest (or perhaps most inappropriate) one has to be what my mother told my brother (and his teenage friends) growing up. . . once a boy (or young man) uses his penis, it will stop growing. I still remember my brother and his friends' faces 25 years later.

Your mom wins. That's hilarious.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

--If you let your arm or leg hang off the side of the bed when you go to sleep, something will come out from under the bed and grab you.

I'm a victim of the urban legend about the guy who killed the dog, hid under the bed, and licked the girl's hand. I still keep my hands and feet on the bed to this day.

Then again, I'm also in my 30s and legitimately afraid of the dark.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by EtaPhiZTA

I have heard lots of these before but the funniest (or perhaps most inappropriate) one has to be what my mother told my brother (and his teenage friends) growing up. . . once a boy (or young man) uses his penis, it will stop growing. I still remember my brother and his friends' faces 25 years later.

Totally using this.

[adpimiz]

That the stoplights were controlled by little people living inside them!

[southernau]

'If you dream that you are falling, and hit the ground, you will die.'


...as told to me by an older brother

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by southernau

'If you dream that you are falling, and hit the ground, you will die.'

...as told to me by an older brother

My older brother told me the same thing!

[txAOII_15]

The radio worked because had a little band playing live music.