Things your parents told you as a kid that you believed at the time (crying, single)

[Sassybluesy]

Things WE told our kids when they were little....


Grain silos were missile silos, ANYONE in a trench coat was a spy, and the local Famous Barr store unscrewed from the top so Santa could get in with his reindeer.

[Minervah]

I've been racking my brain and I can't think of anything. My parents were very straightforward with my sisters and me. I really can't think of anything they told us that wasn't true.

[LillyLillyLilly]

My dad told me you should never wash the coffee pot or mug because that's where all the flavor is.

[Deelighted]

When asked for something, my mother loved to answer, "When your rich uncle gets out of the poor house." I was around 9 or 10 before I realized that she was actually saying, "No way."

[Serious Conversation]

My dad used to put a quarter in his hand and pull it "out from behind my ear." It always thrilled me as a kid.

[Dwatted Wabbit]

"Your face is going to freeze in that expression!"

[sheena12]

When I was spooked about getting under a desk for civil defense drills that were mandatory in public schools during the Cold War, he told me not to worry.

He said that we lived so close to a large city that we would just "vaporize" and not feel a thing.

Somehow, this was not a comfort to me.

[TamaraSavannah]

Originally Posted by sheena12

When I was spooked about getting under a desk for civil defense drills that were mandatory in public schools during the Cold War, he told me not to worry.

He said that we lived so close to a large city that we would just "vaporize" and not feel a thing.

Somehow, this was not a comfort to me.

Reminds me of a scene from Xena where Gabrielle watches an old woman go by with a voodoo doll for Meleager the Mighty. "I hope I am never that bitter, that when I am that old, I am just knitting socks."


"I wouldn't worry about it,"--Xena


"No?"


"People in our line of work rarely live to be that old."


"That's comforting."

[HappyDogToday]

When I was a kid and my mom and I would be out and drive past a cemetery I would say,

"How many dead people are in that cemetery?"

Her comeback: "All of them!"

Then we'd laugh and snicker.

Me and my mom, riding in the car, having a laugh.

She said she and her dad did that when she was little so we kept up the tradition.

[Over the hill gang]

Originally Posted by Sassybluesy

Things WE told our kids when they were little....


Grain silos were missile silos.

I'm willing to bet that your parents read something back in the day about missile silo's and that's where they go that. I've seen them. Construction began in 1959 on several hundred missile silos across America's Farm Belt. Missiles were spread across tens of thousands of square miles of the Great Plains from the Canadian border to the center of the country. Missouri. Montana. Colorado. Nebraska. Wyoming. South Dakota.
They were mixed in with the cattle, corn, etc. Peaking at 1,000 missiles in the 1970s, the current U.S. force consists of 399 Minuteman-III missiles as of September 2017.

A lot of the empty silo's have been converted into living spaces. https://www.wired.com/2009/10/missile-base-2/