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Kaylee & Cole 06.14.08
8/6/11 First 5k! OG&E Expo Run 34:47
9/3/11 Brookhaven Run 5k 34:18
9/17/11 Healthy Sooners Fun Run 5k 33:38
10/15/11 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 33:31
10/29/11 Monster Dash 5k 32:06 PR!
11/11/11 Veteran's Day Run 11k in Dallas 1:13:15 Instant PR!
1/28/12 Texas Half Marathon 2:38:03 Instant PR!
3/25/12 Earlywine Dash
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Lies your parents/siblings told you when you were a kid...
Do you have any funny stories/myths your siblings or parents told you when you were young?
Here are mine:
My brother told my that if you eat the bread crust on sandwiches, it'll help you learn how to whistle.
He also told me that tornadoes stay on the streets lol.
And he told me that if you stayed in a cemetary too long, you would die. I remember going with my mom and grandma to visit my great grandma's grave and I was terrified the whole time. I kept asking my mom if we were going to leave soon haha.
Kaylee & Cole 06.14.08
8/6/11 First 5k! OG&E Expo Run 34:47
9/3/11 Brookhaven Run 5k 34:18
9/17/11 Healthy Sooners Fun Run 5k 33:38
10/15/11 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 33:31
10/29/11 Monster Dash 5k 32:06 PR!
11/11/11 Veteran's Day Run 11k in Dallas 1:13:15 Instant PR!
1/28/12 Texas Half Marathon 2:38:03 Instant PR!
3/25/12 Earlywine Dash
Re: Lies your parents/siblings told you when you were a kid...
My parents always told me if me and my sister couldn't get along, we were both going to get dropped off at the zoo and left there with the monkeys. I was always terrified when we'd drive towards the zoo, especially if we did that on a day my sister and I were fighting.
They also told me that if I sucked my thumb, my teeth would fall out. I quit sucking my thumb like, a week later. Didn't work that way with my sister though...
I was the older one of the two of us, but I was a really protective and nice sister, so I never told my sister anything. Well, I also didn't want to get in trouble since she had a pretty big mouth growing up and always told on me.
Me: Mom, can I have a coke?
Mom: No, drink water, its free.
Then I got my own apartment and imagine my surprise when I got a &^%#(**#@ water bill!! Its not free people!!!!!!!
LOVE IT! I need to bring that up to parents when they tell my nephew that.
I told my sister that if she swallowed a watermelon seed she would grow a watermelon in her belly and it would have to cut out. She swalled a seed and freaked out.
Awww. That's sweet.
My cousins told me there were sharks in the deep end of my grandma's pool. It was always really cloudy and we couldn't see to the bottom. I never, ever, went into the deep end until I was like 12. lol.
I don't know that its necessarily a lie but its definitely a parenting fail:
Mom: "Sex is wrong and nasty and will get you into nothing but trouble. You have to wait until you're married because its something that only married people who are in love do."
Me: "Okay...so if sex is wrong and nasty, why the hell would I want to save that for someone I love?"
I don't know how this conversation came up at work last night but I told my coworkers this same conversation and they were rolling with laughter. Its funny now but at the time 14 year old me was thinking "wtf???"
Ha ha ha ha ha. This made me lol. On the other side of the spectrum, my parents were like "Sex is AWESOME! Its so much fun, once you have it once you will want to do it ALL THE TIME. Like a car, you will want to take a few guys out for a test drive before you settle down with just one. But if you get KTFU before you are married we will never speak to you again."
I was definitely curious but I certainly kept my legs together. LOL.
My dad told me that the big dirt piles at construction sites were giant ant hills made by giant ants.
There used to be a sign for a store called "Pack Rat's Nest" out in the country. He told me it was a warning sign for giant rats that ran through the fields.
Geez, these were actually quite terrifying!
You all are going to think I'm really dumb affter a couple of these....
My parents told us people used to see only black and white only and you had to get a color shot in order to see color.
My mom brought me a cowboy home from work one day after one of her friends went to a George Strait concert (I was a big fan when I was a kid) and told me George threw it off the stage and her friend caught it and wanted me to have it. It wasn't until about my sophomore year of HS that I was looking for that hat to where to a bonfire thing...couldn't find it and started freaking out cause I "lost George Strait's hat!" that my mom fessed up that it was just an old hat and she gave it away a long time ago.
Here's the doozy......
I used to have these 2 paintings in my room growing up. One was of a mother and child in an outdoor setting, the other was of a little blonde headed girl. My mom told me the one of the mother/child was us in my grandma's garden and that the other was a painting of my best friend, Jessica. I told everyone who came to my house about these paintings because I loved them so much. Here are the paintings:
RENOIR'S!....I know...how could I be so naive? Wouldn't I have remembered posing for such a painting??? It wasn't until I was walking through the Galleria with my youth group in Middle school that I saw the paint of the mother and child and said, "Hey that's the painting.....! MOM!"
How embarrassing! hehe
When I was about 6 years old, the neighbor kid told me that the tree in our backyard was a "Gum Tree" and that if you peeled the bark off, the inside was chewing gum. I peeled the bark off and, wouldn't you know it, the inside of the tree was pink... So I put it in my mouth. Not gum.
My older sister hated my mom (her stepmom) so much that she tried to sabotage my potty training. She told me that there were little sharks hiding in the toilet and that if you went #2 they would jump up and bite your butt.
My mother really appreciated that one.
I was also told that drinking coffee would stunt my growth. But apparently Cher from Clueless was told the same thing... So it might be the truth.
My mom (or it might have been my grandma) told me when I was super young that you could get pregnant from kissing. I think what they really meant was that kissing leads to "heavy petting" (hehe) which leads to experimenting with other acts, which eventually leads to sex. And sex is the major cause of pregnancy. But that's not how it was worded. SO, I in turn, was the BIGGEST prude growing up. I eventually kissed boys but I was terrified the entire time.
I swear that my dad told me this same lie!!!
My mom told me if I used mascara my eye lashes would fall out. I just recently (like within the last year) started wearing mascara and I only once in a while. Its still in the back of my head that my eye lashes could fall out
She also told me that if I colored my hair it would fall out. I have not ever colored my hair, but I am getting grey so I will have to do something soon!