I am gullible. I believe people when they tell me things. (A lot less these days)
When I was a kid I believed all kinds of crazy things that friends and family would tell me.
One of my first memories is being terrified of the bathtub draining, because I’d been told that I could be swept down the drain if I was still in the tub.
To this day I don’t like grapes because someone in my school told me that if you swallow the grape seed it would grow a grape tree in your stomach.
I stopped buying Hubba Bubble gum because the story making the rounds was that it contained spider eggs.
My father once had me convinced (but only for a few weeks) that I was lucky to live in a world of colour, because when he was growing up everything was black and white and then got out the old photo albums to prove it.
But the dumbest thing I ever believed lasted for a good two or three years and I’m sad to say that I was a young teenager. My first girlfriend convinced me that girls can’t break wind, it was physically impossible because they were missing a bone that was needed for that, and only boys could. I don’t know if she forgot to tell me that wasn’t true or she just thought that I would find out for myself but fast forward three years to when I was 17 and a new girlfriend was squatting down in our rec room to look at my record collection and a rather noisy one slipped out.
And people wonder why I have “trust” issues.
What crazy story were you told by siblings, parents, friends or schoolmates?
