You’re a liar.
You lie.
Don’t feel bad, I do it too. We are liars. Think about the stuff your mom used to or still does tell you:
“Watching TV too close will hurt your eyes and make you go blind!”
“Don’t swallow that gum - it will stay in your stomach for seven years!”
“If you keep making that face, it might freeze and stay that way forever!”
LIES!!!
Fear tactics to make us conform! There is no proof that anything like any of the things your mom used to tell you would actually happen!
What are your favorite “mom-isms” from your childhood? Use any on your kids now? Sound off, ya’ big liar-head!
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Wrinkles, she meant wrinkles by saying if you keep making those faces the wind will change and your face will freeze that way.
And wrinkles, are something I am completely dead against, and protest at all cost. Naturally I don’t wrinkle my forehead, never ever will I get botox. But I swear they day a crease appears accross my foehead is the day…well I’m not sure yet. Hopefully I’ll never know.
(I’m gonna go before I relapse…I’m feeling extremely full of angst and already attacked Scot’s blog.)