I was reflecting upon all the stuff I was told as I grew up and wondered why I’m kinda normal. When a tooth fell out I placed it beneath my pillow whereupon a mysterious Fairylike creature sneaked into my room, I assumed she lifted my head and replaced it with a sixpence, but apparently the tooth crawled out from beneath the pillow so as not to wake me. So now I have an apparition with a crawling tooth in my room and if I didn’t go to sleep the ‘bogeyman’ would ‘get’ me.
My mam told me if I sniffed Poppies earwigs would get in my nose and eat their way into my brain, I now think this was to prevent me becoming an Opium addict, something she no doubt misheard on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Then, of course if I misbehaved the Gypsy’s would steal me, I mean really? Why would they steal naughty children? Surely they had enough problems. Other people that wanted to steal me were strangers, so ‘never accept a sweet from a stranger,’ okay I can deal with that, but in between the Fairies, the crawling teeth, the Bogeyman, Opium addiction, the earwigs and the Gypsies, strangers were the last thing on my mind. And to be honest if the Gipsy’s and the strangers were such a great threat what the hell were my parents doing letting an old, overweight geezer in a red suit who stinks of Reindeer, whisky and carrots into my bedroom in the middle of the night bearing presents? π
Beautifully written. I don’t know how any of us ended normal? Or maybe we didn’t!!!!
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Thanks so much, I guess thatβs debatable ππ
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I really enjoyed reading this. I feel all parents are like that. Thank you for sharing ππ»π
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Thank you, so glad you enjoyed-so glad you read it ππ
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Hahaha, brilliant! I was told the river with a little pebble area I went to as a child, which we probably drove 40 minutes to get to (but I was made to feel like it was a huge effort to get there so I always thought it was further away), was the seaside. I felt more than a little mislead to find it was a grotty little town with a stream running through it, and never went to a seaside until I was more of an adult than a child. Luckily I wasn’t told about walking teeth and such. It’s hard to remember things when you want to so I’m struggling to think what else I was told now. Oh, not to go out the house with wet hair otherwise I’d catch a cold and die. Better than being abducted by strangers though I’d imagine. x
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Haha brilliant, at least they didnβt tell you the ice cream van only played a tune when he had run out of ice cream ππ thanks for reading and thanks so much for commenting loved it ππ
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Hahah I did get told that one actually! I also got told if I bought from the ice cream van man I’d put my parents out of business and we’d end up homeless (my parents owned a chocolate/sweet shop when I was growing up, and we lived above it). Makes you wonder where parents get these gems, whether they make some up spur of the moment or are passed down through the generations… I wonder how these lies will all have to be adapted for future generations hooked on iPads who get paid via a Toothfairy app when they lose a baby tooth!
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That wouldnβt surprise me haha, apparently the Tooth Fairy has been around in various forms for centuries π
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I think that we tell our children lies to make them believe in the magic that we wished we could still believe in ourselves. We all love to see our little ones believe in magic; it’s part of being a child. But oh how I wish we all still believed in magical things.
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Haha, yes we probably do π
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Oy, Reindeer, whiskey, and carrots! Ewww…quite a picture you paint there Charlie. Fun.
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And never pick Mother-Die, cos’ well hmmm, who’d make your dinner! And don’t pull faces cos’ if the wind changes direction it’d stay like that!
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Haha yes that was another one π
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Smiling, Charlie! π
I’m desperately trying to remember if I told my daughter ‘lies’ in order to get her to do something, or believe in something? I probably did, Charlie, but, I’m trying NOT to remember.. π π
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Probably best that way, trouble is I still do it. I told my Level 1 students the Red Arrows are really blue and only look red because of the speed they fly at ππ
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And, they believed you? ππ
You are very naughty, Charlie… πππ
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Stop taking the speed too seriously, Charlie, it rots your nasals.:)
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π€£π€£π€£ Love this – good points!
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Thank you ππ
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I’m still struggling with that freaky tooth-fairy…critter…thing… π³
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And, the bogeyman was just as creepy…π
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Funny as always Charlie . The bogeyman is terrifying.
The stories I was told were always funny and interesting but there was a time when the tiny me decided to play at a friend’s place a little longer than usual and her parents actually found some travelling gypsies close by and got them to open their sacks to see if they had hidden their little girl.
Sad for the gypsies.
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Yes very sad as you say, but I was told that the gypsies took me then brought me back because theyβd had enough after one day π
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Truely π ππ
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ππ€£ππ€£Thank you for providing, a wonderful start to my week π€£π€£π€£
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Welcome and thanks for reading π
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How did we ever survive? I know I’m not normal and now I know why. My mom told me if I didn’t keep my ears clean, a corn stalk would grow out my ear. π Then there was that thing about going blind. ππ
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Haha, yes I remember that one, but I must admit my eyes are not what they were π Thanks for the comments Larry ππ
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I always heard potatoes…”Your ears are so dirty, you could grow potatoes in them!”
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πππ yeah I remember that one π
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This is awesome. I heard many of same things lol including the ear wig story. Lol
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Thank you, so glad you liked it and thanks for calling in ππ
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Youβre very welcome
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Where I come from there’s no bogeyman. We cerainly didn’t learn our lesson. Poor santa.
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Surely everyone has a bogeyman? So what was the lesson? π
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No we had closet monsters. No bogeyman. What I learnt early is that everything is a fasade.
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Oh my! Closet monsters conjures up an image ππ
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Haha. Well-being is conjured on a strong mind. No faking.
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Brilliant!
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Thank you Luisa ππ
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Hey Charlie, so I answered your question. Thanks for playing along in my “Ask Me Anything” game. When you have time hop over to http://www.racquelwrites.com/2018/11/25/ask-me-anything-the-answers-part-2/ and check out the answer to your question. Thanks!
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You are HILARIOUS! thanks for that!
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Why thank you πππ
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Thatβs adorable!
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lol – wait…Santa eats carrots where you’re from?
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Haha, itβs the bag of carrots he carries around for his reindeer, we had to put a mince pie, a glass of whiskey out for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph, I figured he must put the carrot in his pocket while he climbed back up the chimney, I was a strange child π Thank you KE π
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Aha π€£π€£π€£ I was about to say wow! The States fail again. He eats cookies and milk over here lol
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I guess it was a long time ago they may be leaving him green tea and a health bar these days π
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πππ this comment has made me laugh so hard
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