» Lies Your Parents Told You

Aussie lies
Living in Australia we spent a lot of time at the beach and my parents use to keep us in line by telling us that if we didn't swim between the patrol flags the lifeguards wouldn't help us if we got in trouble (I still think lifeguards are selfish slackers).

They also told us that the wombats and kangaroos lying by the side of the road were 'napping'.

That christmas presents were magic are were programmed to disapear if children looked at them without their parents in the room. Kept us in bed til 9 or 10 am waiting for them to come and get us!!

Also, my big bro told me and my twin sister that I was adopted, apparently they liked the look of my sister so much and had gone to the orphanage and found a match. He also claimed that they did it so they could use us as child stars on TV and always have a spare (not so outlandish as we did play the role of a baby on cell block H for two years). Believed him for years, bastard.
(Mon 19th Jan 2004, 1:01, More)