Looking Back!

I subscribe to a magazine called "GOOD OLD DAYS", and it really has some memories for me in it.  This current issue has an article called, 'Lies Your Mother Told You' in it and some are funny and some useful.  See if your Mother or Father told you any of these things, and if so, did you teach your own children too?

My father's advice was all about surviving.  Never pick up a hitchhiker.  Never put the lug nuts in the hubcap when you're done changing a tire!  Never spend money you don't have.

My mother's advice was about surviving as a woman!  Always wear clean underwear in case you're in an accident.  Always take cab money when you go out.  Never date a boy who sits in the driveway and honks his horn instead of coming to the door.

More:  

Drinking cola will dissolve your teeth.  Put a nail in a glass of cola overnight and it will be gone by morning.  Just imagine what it will do to your teeth.  No truth in that one.

Chewing gum stays in your stomach forever if you swallow it.  Remember those little wax bottles full of colored sugar water?  Did you chew the bottle after it was emptied and to your mom's horror, swallow them?  Wax bottles, lips, fangs, are made from food grade paraffin and wont hang around long in your stomach.

Sit too close to the TV and you'll ruin your eyes!

Swimming right after you eat will cause you to have a cramp and you will drown!

Go swimming in August and you'll get polio.  Franklin D. Roosevelt came down with the disease in August, one day after falling off his boat into the Bay of Fundy.  If swimming in August could fell the president of the United States, what chance did a little kid have?

Crack your knuckles, and you'll get arthritis!  No, it merely releases a trapped gas bubble from the finger joint - a sort of digital burp!  According to medical experts, it does not cause arthritis.

Drinking coffee will stunt your growth!  Studies show that it wont stunt your growth, but it will make a child hyper.

Touch that toad and you will get warts.

Eating pumpkin seeds causes appendicitis!  Nope.

Wet feet and cold heads cause colds.  No they don't.  Getting your feet wet, not wearing a hat and going outside with wet hair just make you feel cold.  Viruses cause cold, pure and simple.

Last but not least, keep doing that, and it'll stay that way.  Sticking out your tongue, crossing your eyes, making crazy faces on the back window of the station wagon, and you were told it would stay that way.

Mom may not always know best, but she meant well, and she loved you.  Don't you wish you could still give her a hug?  I sure do.