Millennials, What Childhood LESSONS turned out to be a LIE?

Millennials what's something you were taught growing up that turned out to be completely wrong in adulthood I was told by the school nurse in high school in an abstinence only state in the early 2000s that rubbers were absolutely no defense whatsoever against AIDS so he drove this point home repeatedly describing how small it was and explaining how dangerous AIDS was and how rubbers had these holes in the fabric small enough for AIDS to pass through I went on believing that until I was in my late 20s when I happened upon the actual fact which was

yes what I was taught is technically true for sheep skin you know the kind they stopped using Generations ago and certainly not the kind they typically sell over the counter yes I am sure they still make such things and yes I know they still have like a printed three out of a th000 failure rate or some such but the school made it clear falsy as far as I now know that all latex or otherwise had a 100% failure to protect from HIV and AIDS yep and that's why abstinence only education is correct story two my

mom dragged me to a lot of adult only work rated events when I was a kid 4 to 12 years old as she had this need to show off her family she was basically one of those mothers that Everyone likes to complain about the ones who just won't leave little Susie at home because she's so well behaved and would love attending a 6-hour long evening of grownup stuff and ends way past her bedtime every time there was dinner awards ceremony silent auction bridal shower Etc I was expected to go and every every time I asked

would there be other kids there and every time my mother would answer yes there will be loads of other children there and every time we arriv the youngest person there was 30 but I was at that age where you trusted what your parents told you so even though deep down I knew my mom was lying to me there was always a spark of hope that she wasn't which was dashed every single time story three back when we were kids in the 70s and 80s my dad's company gave every family a turkey based on family size

for Thanksgiving and ham or alternate roast for Christmas and the holidays every summer they rented out the local Amusement Park roller coasters and all and made all the dogs and burgers and drinks free just for the kids and families to have a good day paid the workers too he got an extra week of vacation for his 5th 10th 15th and 20th year the 25th they gave him a gold watch the 30th they flew him to Europe with my mother all expenses paid the 35th they bought him a gorgeous grandfather clock he had a pension a

401k and maxed Social Security until the last few years he paid no match toward his Healthcare either along the way without having to apply and rein They promoted him six or seven times and made sure his real pay always went up as they trained him to do more and manage more they hired him at 19 without so much of a day of college and took care of him until he retired he applied there in the first place because he could walk there from his house in a pinch he still can only now his house is

renovated and bigger almost unbelievable that type of thing nowadays story four my brother convinced me that tornadoes are gigantic mutant tomatoes that escape from mad science labs and wreak havoc on towns I always imagined it as a really big and mean Bob from Veggie Tales I totally believed it seeing the pictures of the aftermath I just thought nobody could live to take a picture of one so one day in kindergarten tornadoes are somehow brought up my seat neighbor asks how they're made and my other neighbor told him it was strong winds I laughed in that

Schmucks face and then proceeded to fight tooth and nail even against the teacher convinced that they were tricking me into thinking it was all just wind I couldn't grasp that strong air could rip up a whole town my brother finally had to be the one to tell me he was just kidding when the teacher sent me home with a note can you imagine the chaos not from tornadoes but giant tomatoes raining from the sky splattering unsuspecting towns folk Story five my first job out of college around 2002 was for a local hos Hospital in their

it department they were opening six new family care practices to help consolidate their local Health Care Monopoly just under two years later I had finished the final computer installations at the final practice and arrived back at the hospital in the company vehicle they trusted me to drive sat at my desk and tried to log into my computer my password didn't work moments later my boss called and asked me to come to HR where I was fired for something I had supposedly done a month prior then they fought my unemployment claim they stuffed a written warning

in my personnel file and on the signature line my former boss wrote given verbally on such and such date they won I appealed and they brought a lawyer to the hearing and one it was undoubtedly well worth the money for the unemployment insurance to save them on their 1,000 other employees any concept of loyalty I might have had to an employer passed away with that job employment is business always act in your own best interests and no one else's because an employer will never do right by you story six in grade school if your assignments

are not written incursive in middle school they will fail you in middle school I'll fail you if you ride incursive I'm here to teach you Jane schaer style writing which you must use in high school or they will fail you not to decipher your useless hieroglyphics in high school pretty much as long as your paper contains a start middle and and end without changing topic it's good bro BTW don't complain about how harder classes are college is like 10 times harder than this in college right so where aware that many of you come from high

schools whose idea of a straight A student was that you optimally never did the same things twice so we are going to start you from the beginning and go really slow about it plus a bunch of side meetings to help you get up to speed because the more intense stuff like doing calculations by hand we teach you is going to be required by whatever job you have at my job for Christ's sake do not do calculations by hand you might be wrong this is why we have computers if you get the calculation wrong people will

be harmed and we get sued if the computer gets it wrong people still get harmed and we still get sued but we can pass that lawsuit on to the maker of our calculator programs you don't even need those scills for anything anyway in master's degree program uh why can't you do this by hand industry requires you to do it that way so you should be experienced at it anyway now we are going to program a game engine from scratch because that's how real companies do it I started my own game company screw that crap we're

using Unity story seven you to go camping my dad would use that as an opportunity to scare us into paralysis every time so he made up all of these wild terrifying monsters that lived in the woods nearby nothing so crazy that it was obvious like evil mermaids in the lake or anything it would base his imaginings on real obscure Wildlife so if we asked a teacher about it they would usually confirm that whatever creature really exists yes it's dangerous and never listened to our little kid stories long enough to figure out that we genuinely believe

that were basically feral Pokemon esque animals populating the region unrelated to the fantasy monsters I was told growing up that I was diagnosed diabetic and I had to take a certain medication to control my hypoglycemia or I could end up in a coma any day yeah I'm not diabetic my sugar is fine if a bit low sometimes and the medication I was on for 3 years was an anti-depressant my mom had gotten prescribed for herself from a sketchy doctor friend of hers I was a weird kid before my diabetes but I was sincerely troubled by

the time medical professionals caught on to that story 8 one thing I've noticed about a lot of these comments is that at the time we were taught things they weren't exactly wrong at the time calculators were not pocket Siz people did benefit from job loyalty until we watched our parents be kicked to the curb with the recession there was no easy access to information to fact check things such as the food pyramid or even the decency of authority figures for that matter he had very specific access to the information that was heavily controlled by the

government and news outlets unless you had hours to spend at the library and even then libraries may not have books on the info you needed quote unquote back in my day hahaa story nine when I was a kid my dream was to operate excavators tractors big trucks and whatnot those just look so dang cool my neighbor's father had his own excavation company and I just wanted to be like him one day in class we read a book that by the year 2000 cars would be flying and sidewalks would be bringing us to where we want

to walk to reading this broke the dream for me can you imagine an excavator or a front wheel loader that flies it looks disgusting and stupid I don't want to drive that when the year 2000 came I was angry the book had lied and cars weren't flying and excavators and tractors still looked cool as heck by then my career was headed somewhere else and I had missed out on driving those amazing machines screw you book that made me believe excavators would fly story 10 one time time when I was a kid maybe four or five

I got a balloon at a carnival on the way to the car the balloon got free and started to float away my grandparents who took me went on to explain that the balloon is going to fly all the way across the Atlantic and land somewhere over in Germany this was their way of calming me down what actually happened was my grandmother got a hold of a friend of hers who lived over in Germany and got them to write me a letter saying that they found my red balloon and sent the letter and balloon to me

in the mail I was so happy that someone found it went to visit them 10 years later as a teenager and said remember the time when you found my red balloon and sent it to me that reply your grandmother told us to do it what an epic let down story 11 when I was 6 my mom Grandpa and I were walking through a forest and I wanted to go down to the river my grandpa told me we couldn't because we didn't have a gun to fight the crocodiles that live there every time we went on

this Trail I would mention to my mom offhandedly this part is where the crocodiles live right when we got to the path that led to the river and my mom each and every time told me yep we can't wake them up I was about 10 when I finally realized that there was no way a colony of crocodiles lived in rural Canada and not even my friends bothered to correct me for 5 years I believe that the nearby River was crocodile infested story 12 I used to have an uncle who had had heart surgery so once

when I was little and we were at the beach I noticed a scar he had from surgery when I asked my dad what those SCS were from he told me a story he said Uncle had bravely fought off a l in Africa and survived with only the scar remaining as a little kid I obviously had no reason to doubt the story that my uncle had fought off a line with his bare Knuckles so I proceeded to tell everyone around me the story of my uncle who survived this incredible fight now fast forwards when I'm roughly

19 some of the family members are all sitting together to share dinner then they start talking about said Uncle that he has to be operated on his heart again I didn't understand the meaning of being operated again so I started processing it and started asking questions ask asking everyone about the lion fight so at the sweet age of 19 years old I realized that my childhood was a mere lie the man I had idled for fighting off a lion it was all a lie nonetheless his second operation went fine right to be honest undergoing heart

surgery twice I feel like it's a much bigger feed and proof of strength than fighting off a lion story 13 it boiled down to as long as you do as you're told and follow the rules don't make a fuss and don't get ideas above your station people will see how hard you work and you'll be appropriately rewarded this is absolutely not the case if you don't ask for anything you don't get anything and only doing as you're told and following all the rules to the L not only fails to push and progress you it's also

no guarantee you'll be safe and secure you can follow every Rule and still be falsely accused or wrongfully convited or hit by an intoxicated driver you can still be the name that gets picked out of the hat for layoffs you can still get caught up on circumstances beyond your control being good and quiet and obedient leav you extremely vulnerable story 14 a vast number of things I learned about social history the one that made me feel especially lied to was the pop culture idea that corsets were unilateral harmful devices and impossible to function in that's

in so many movies and while tight lacing was a thing that existed among the ultra fashionable and sometimes for special occasions women didn't do it most of the time for the entire 500-year history of corset and Corset likee garments it's erasing the reality of of women's lived experiences throughout history and it makes me Furious now whenever I see it in movies sure it doesn't impact the grand scheme of things but it's still giving us an incorrect understanding of the past at the expense of people who come from a systematically oppressed group no less with other

social history myths teachers and sometimes even museums will repeat the most insane things because their own history education only relied on getting things like important men's names and the dates of battles correct when it comes to daily life people have believing anything that sounds even halfway plausible at first glance for like decades story 15 dating and finding a life partner the way dating works and how it was explained to me in the '90s and 2000s turned out to be a complete lie and that has hurt me deeply in many different ways being honest hardworking Physically

Active well-dressed humble polite and an educated person seeking the company of others isn't what automatically results in finding someone at some point and while I haven't given up hope I've started to become a little bit big bitter about it to be honest I largely feel that the introduction of the internet dating services apps and social media is largely to blame for the fact that adults around me couldn't see how it would change the dating culture and customs especially in small countries like Finland where women and men could start dating the top 0.1% of potential dream

Partners outside their own communities people which they never before had any access to throughout the whole country and the world it has had a degrading effect on women and men alike the economy has been steadily utter crap for most of us probably and unlike my parents who could afford a house at age 20 I probably cannot ever afford one which hurts my chances of finding a partner as well I think not to mention how expensive everything has become in general also maybe a little controversial now that in Western countries women and men are Freer to

choose what to do this has resulted in more women choosing to focus on their careers instead of becoming Partners getting married and starting a family or choosing to not be with men at all and I'm not saying that it's wrong but my grandmother used to always tell me that for everyone there is someone and lately I started to think that she's wrong because that someone probably has chosen to not be with me even though we've never even met just my five Vio Sense on the topic story 16 not me but my college roommate mind you

she was an engineering student at a fairly DC University as a child she had asked her older brother what happens to cans when they're recycled he he told her they were used to make airplanes she became an avid can returner after that bringing her recycles back to the grocery store to the can deposit system I think she may have gotten a sense of excitement out of thinking she was contributing to aircraft development she believed this all the way up until College when apparently during a physics seminar she made a serious inquiry about how such thin

aluminum can survive at high altitudes when she commented on how airplanes are made from recycled cans the class and Professor Al reacted hysterically I came home to find her under her bed covers eating chocolate all distraught did you know airplanes aren't made of cans with the first words out of her mouth story 17 my mother had three kids under the age of five so in a brilliant effort on her part to get some peace and quiet she either came up with or borrowed the idea and told us if you put salt on a bird's tail

it couldn't fly away and you could keep it for a pet my siblings and I spent countless hours running around the backyard with salt shakers attempting this feet Flash Forward about 10 years I told one of my friends we could catch a bird this way and she looked at me like I was insane dragged her to my mom to get her straightened out my mom looked blank for a minute then laughed and said oh yeah I forgot about that I didn't think you still believed it the himation was complete and yeah I was angry there

for a while story 18 when I was six I moved to the next city along with my parents brand new start I didn't know anyone one day my mom told me you're Princess Lollipop and I'm the queen and dad is a king a few weeks later I started my new school and whilst introducing the new kid to the class My teacher asked me to tell the class something about myself so I so sure of myself told them that I am a princess and my parents are the king and the queen I told each of my

new friends a story until one person laughed and didn't believe me it upset me and I told my mom when I got home that this kid at school didn't believe I was a princess she looked at me all confused like what do you mean you're a princess I said you said that I'm Princess Lollipop you're the queen and Dad's the king she burst out laughing remembering what she' told me weeks prior and said something along the lines of oh honey I was only joking we're not really the king and queen but you're still my princess

I can still remember the mix of anger and embarrassment I felt knowing I'd honestly believed her and had gone around telling all my new friends at school luckily we were only six so the next week nobody remembered story 19 it seems silly but I was told black holes aren't real but I grew up in a super religious family and I started experiencing dissonance young my mother is a biblical literalist meaning creating the Earth took exactly 6 days the Earth is exactly 6,000 years old Etc and therefore science is just a Croc a lies she had

a 400 page book written by Ken Ham exposing all the lies of science turns out carbon dating can't be trusted because we carbon dated this non-organic mass and carbon dating was wrong evolution is alive because if it came from monkeys why are there still monkeys that sort of thing it rocked my world when I discovered that the Sci-Fi books I'd been reading were not entirely nonsense black holes are real extra solar planets are quite common and there's a good chance you used Einstein's relativity today and if science can get relativistic physics and gene therapy right

why wouldn't they be able to get Evolution or carbon dating right so anyway when your Bible thumping mother tells you that black holes are made up just like the fossil record feel free to keep rebelling story 20 that going to University is the only way to success it wasn't for me I knew it wasn't for me but I still gave into the pressure ended up getting more anxious and depressed began skipping classes and dropping out halfway through now I've got all the debt with nothing to show for it ended up doing a tap essentially Community

College course and getting a decent job were both my bosses best bosses I've ever had had never gone to University one worked in retail and the other one in their blue caller family business story 21 we were learning about shapes in elementary school the topic of our favorite with three sided fellow the triangle came up and with it a discussion of its angles specifically that its angles added up to 180 de some particularly curious child in the class asked the teacher why triangles specifically have 180° this obviously caught her off guard and she hesitated before

saying hm that's a good question I don't know now this would have been a perfectly acceptable answer to a nine or 10-year-old me because dumb Math logic is dumb right but the teacher refusing to acknowledge her lack of teaching doubled back understatement and said well think of it this way oh boy a straight line is 180° right so if you unfold the triangle it becomes a straight line which is why a triangle has 180° we all seem to accept that as revealed by our Collective Outburst of oh but after I thought about it for a

second I realized that if you unfold any shape it can make a straight line instead of being an insufferable smart though I just sat there silently thinking to myself what the heck are you talking about and if you're enjoying what we're talking about so far in this video please don't forget to hit that subscribe and like button for more videos just like this story 22 I'm late to the party but someone will see this and get a laugh hopefully when I was about 6 I turned the thermostat up to 90 because I was cold my

mom came into the living room and felt the heat raging looked at the thermostat and realized what I had done she then told me not to do that again because if the thermostat is set too high the house will blow up fast forward 10 years later I'm in high school and my parents are out of town so I had a few friends over they asked if I could turn the heat up a little because it was freezing in my house to which I responded oh no man my house is really old and the thermostat is

all janky so if I mess with it the house might blow up I had made up a story as to why the house would explode in my head over the years my friends asked me why I thought that I said well when I was six my mom told me that if I turn oh crap for 10 years I thought my house would explode if I touched the thermostat story 23 so I have two older sisters and we're all with within 3 and 1/2 years of each other in age my oldest sister swears to this day

that she never told us this but the middle sister and myself both remember the exact same story coming from her our dad was adopted we knew this but we didn't know anything else at the time his adoptive parents passed away before we were born and he had no siblings to our knowledge but we didn't know anything about the details of his birth parents and whatnot when we were like four six and seven respectively my eldest sister said my dad was abandoned and found by his parents on the bumper of a truck not sure logistically how

big of a bumper would be needed and if that's even possible but yeah we believed her for a long time can't remember when I found out but I guess my suspicion grew over the years story 24 as an old Millennial I think without a doubt it was work hard and you will be rewarded for it I feel like we might have been the first victims of this now widely known fallacy I'm talking about generation not gender race religion many of us grew up and saw that to be true and by the time we got to

the age we could reap the fruits of our labor it wasn't true miltonian economics and fully taken route we legit thought we were entering a progressive accepting world and upon graduation got kicked in the mouth I think the younger Millennials in generation Alpha knew early in their lives this is all of us screwed while us old Millennials were and some still are True Believers side note I think the hopelessness of feeling like we are all screwed is what's driving the younger generations to the right on the surface the right messaging is so much more palatable

and inquires less effort than the left the right says don't worry about it vote for us and we'll take care of everything and the left says vote think pay attention take action if you want change Story 25 when I was a kid we had cats and they all started having kittens I think the final count was somewhere in the neighborhood of 26 cats mostly newborn kittens not crazy cat lady house my dad and stepmom told us they were taking the cats to a cat Farm we accepted that as truth and Invision our cats living out

their lives on a quaint farm with a barn making friends with cows fast forward to 20 years and I work in a real estate office I'd never mentioned the cat Farm to anyone before but we had a client who was buying a house and he had to get rid of his cats I immediately offered up the information about the cat farm and offered to call my stepmom to get him contact info I called her right in front of him hey Mom remember when I was a kid and you took our cats to a cat Farm

yeah I have a client who would like to take his cats there too long pause and then a giant burst of laughter rang into my ear she confessed they took all the cats to the woods near her house and let them go I was devastated and had to think of what I was going to tell the client I said goodbye hung up the phone and politely told him the cat Farm was closed my face and ears were on fire story 26 I come from Denmark when I was like six or seven my legs started to

kind of hurt in the evening at bedtime I told my mom and she explained a Danish word to me which is best translated to growth like your legs are growing sort of why your teeth hurt as a child well because of growth anyway I was blown away by that M fact some days later one evening in bed the growth is only in my right leg I tell my mom and my dad about it and immediately my dad gets this nervous look on his face and says that's not good that's not good at all and my

mom chimes in yeah that's bad and I go why my dad goes did I ever tell you about my uncle I went no he continues who passed away from starvation I go no he follows up his right leg was so long he could only walk in circles so he never ate he never made to the kitchen that night the growth came back only in the right leg I remember punching that leg 40 50 times at least until the feeling of growth would go away and I never told my parents again when I had growth after

all I had a feeling they would know once I became the human version of a flamingo story 27 my dad once told me that if you pinch your nose and blow your eyes will pop out he told a long involve story about how Germans use this as a method in World War I fast forward four five years to when I'm a 10 or 11 my family's on a plane coming back from vacation I'm sitting next to my mom I start experiencing really terrible pressure in my ears which I've never felt before I'm whining to my

mom when a monk sitting in front of me turns around and tells me to hold my nose and blow obviously this has me shook since I know for a fact this will cause my eyes to pop out I say to my mom but Dad says my eyes will pop out I don't remember her exact response but it was something along the lines of a snort figuring out my dad was a big time liar pop my ears and my eyes stayed intact I told my dad the story a couple of years ago and we both got

a big laugh out of it story 28 little girls that don't hold their moms' hands in the parking lot or store would get stolen by trolls and turned into hamburgers I didn't like trolls or hamburgers but I did like sprinting in parking lots and hiding in cloth racks with my feet up my mom told me that the Box tampons I found were Rockets so I took the first opportunity I could to shoot the entire box out of my grandparents' living room window my mom found them all over the driveway when she got home from work

mortified the recording of the man that used to start playing after the phone was left off the receiver for far too long was called the ugly if I didn't stop playing with the God dang house phone he would come through the handset as a cloud of butterflies and Carry Me Away forever one of my mom's favorites was called the man according to her this threat worked for a stretch but I caught on while purposefully dropping french fries on the diner floor like a schmuck my frustrated mother warned me to cut it out if you don't

stop and eat your food I'm going to call the man I immediately fired back that's okay go ahead do it you know what I'll do it and on my hips I called for the man in an exaggerated sing song before turning to say well I guess he's not coming she was speechless I was smug and that was the last I heard of the man there's just so many I don't know how parents put up with me especially my mom story 29 my dad had a deviated septum surgery and my uncle was in town to help

for a couple of days recovery we went to a lion's restaurant to get some soup for my dad before we walked in my uncle said this is great it's Tuesday they do chicken noodles on Tuesday and my kid Brian I combined this with the other soup data point where most places have clam chatter on Friday I put together the concept of a national soup schedule and never questioned it mind you we do not eat a lot of soup so I didn't have much opportunity to test this concept and it held up for the most part

when I paid attention fast forward 20 years when I'm going to a brand new restaurant in a brand new city with my my wife and she says soup sounds good I say something to the effect of it's Tuesday they'll have chicken noodle I get a look of utter confusion followed by wheels turning followed by laughter she put together that I thought there was a soup schedule that all restaurants had followed and proceeded to explain the harsh realities of the restaurant world to me not only did I think this I had thought this for 20 years

story 30 that you can be anything when you grow up they kind of glossed over the whole aptitude and enjoyment thing I let a couple of companies try to push me down a management track before realizing that I just can't feel productive doing management things even though I know it's important it doesn't feel like real work to me and it largely ignores where the majority of my experience is also the food pyramid turns out they didn't know crap about food and pretty much everything they ever told me about substances turns out they didn't know crap

about either seems like the negative effects of prohibition are way worse than the substances apparently a lot of legal ones were way worse than illegal ones too story 31 not quite something I was told but one time my father yelled from the bathroom to get the cordless phone and a rag for him I got both pushed it through the opening in the door he made and pretended to walk away this was a very odd request for him so I had to know who he was calling hey uh my Jewels are wounded and they won't stop

what should I do he asked I quickly walked into my room regretting listening a few days later they had the talk at my elementary school years early I figured it out my father was on his period I went on with his belief a long time I eventually realized that males didn't have those but figured it was some other hole i' lost my vCard before realizing there is in fact no holes story 32 I've mentioned this before but somehow or another my father somehow convinced me that the brown UPS delivery trucks were called broccoli trucks no

they didn't deliver broccoli they delivered packages no they were not associated with broccoli in any way at all so why were they called broccoli trucks damn defino dad logic I learned the truth about things far later than I should have in Middle School actually when I offhandedly remarked that I'd seen a broccoli truck in the parking lot my teacher overheard me and asked me to point it out then gave me a look of skeptical confusion when I indicated the UPS truck that was a moment when I realized my dad might have made up the whole

broccoli truck bit I wound up trying to explain that it was a family tradition to refer to delivery vehicles by odd names but everything I said only seemed to make my teacher grow grow more suspicious upon hearing the story from me my father did a very poor job of restraining his laughter story 33 gravity yep it's not a force it's not pulling you to the ground the ground is accelerating upwards you're merely held against the Earth because its mass is warping the envelope of space and time pulling it towards itself if you jump out of

a plane no Force ignoring air resistance is imparted onto you you are merely floating neutral to the coordinates of space and time what is happening is the ground is accelerating towards you how is it accelerating upwards and the world is not tearing apart gravity is literally warping the coordinates of space around you it's why light with no mass is still affected by gravity we teach it completely wrong story 34 my dad used to be the biggest farter I mean after he'd have a few beers Stouts usually he would fart the worst smelling fart you could

possibly imagine they were so bad I used to cry when he did it he told me if he didn't fart he would blow up like a big balloon and float away I 100% believe this until I was like 13 I somehow Associated it with the Harry Potter movie where his aunt floats away I didn't associate as a kid that it was magic in the movie honestly when I found out I was kind of relieved I remember as a kid trying to fart as much as I could in literal fear of blowing up and floating away

story 35 I was taught without irony mind you that every single human being on this planet was doing their best to be a good wonderful person and that it was only circumstance or maybe the government or I guess also maybe chance that stopped that beautiful flower from becoming the greatest lovingest most beautiful soul that ever lived who also loved everyone and would pass away for you this was what everyone fundamentally was and never doubt that they want to be good and that they are trying their best so always be kind and patient and loving that's

what I was taught turns out that I don't know at least 20% possibly 80% of all the humans alive today are capricious son as fundamentally evil creatures who value nothing believe in nothing and would nuke the entire planet if they felt that Pro they had quote unquote one monkeys with nuclear weapons firearms and lawyers not a fun thing to wrap your mind around as a SM child that the ridiculous hippie overlords who attempted to impose their simplistic childish and aspirational world view on you were just in fact animals who hated life never cared about reality

and never gave a single thought to how horrible it would be to be raised so naively and have to learn the truth the hard way not that I'm bitter of course story 36 this story happened to my wife not me for years every time they drove by it my father-in-law would mention to my wife and her brother that this place named wishes had a great lunch buffet they took it as a gospel truth without a second thought not long after we started dating we drove by and she told me the same thing I whip my

head around and asked her what she meant and how she knew that because I grew up in the same area curiosity and an internet connection had told me it is a club I relay this information to her and she eyed me suspiciously not believing her father would lead her on like that I busted out laughing realizing the long con he had played on them while she sat in the front seat and fumed at me when we got to her house she ran to her dad expecting him to tell me off instead he and I were

both almost on the floor in laughter which made her even more upset I continue his tradition to take advantage of her gullibility constantly she truly married her father story 37 literally everything my parents ever told me but here are some highlights no you're not getting fat I was and if you eat less your body will conserve calories and you will get fat so I continued eating as normal and guess what got fat thanks Mom if you don't go to college immediately after high school you'll ruin your education and flunk out so I threw away basically

my entire life to go to college immediately with no plan of what to do there now I work in a warehouse turns out taking a year off statistically improves College performance but oh well thanks again mom people will always hurt you and attack you there's nothing you can do about it it's your responsibility to stay out of everyone's way life is going to be unfair and painful and if that upsets you then there's something wrong with you turns out life in my Society at least is actually mostly sensible and predictable and people are mostly good

it was unnecessary for me to spend all my school days hiding in stairwells and my adulthood avoiding eye contact thanks so much Mom mom my parents also lied to me a lot for fun because kids are just amusingly gullible I guess so there's a long list all on its own but that seems to be common also no one in the world knows how to properly brush teeth not you not your parents not your dentist even just gargle some sand you're boned anyway 3 minutes 5 minutes circles straight lines hard soft toothpaste no toothpaste screw it

chew some steel wool story 38 when I was around 4 or 5 my dad told me that Rocky passed away at the end of the first Rocky movie and that his son also named Rocky took up the mantle of being a boxer he told me that you actually call Rocky to Rocky II and then at the end of that movie the same thing happened and so on and so forth all I knew about the rocky series was that Rocky 4 had a robot in it so I assumed it took place in the future and didn't

question him I never actually watched the movie so I believe that one up until last year someone in my playwriting class made some kind of reference to Rocky and I made a joke about the main character of his play D at the end naturally everyone was super confused and had to explain to me that no Rocky does not pass away in a boxing match only to be succeeded by a son also named Rocky who also passes away in a boxing match who was then succeeded by his son Rocky 3 who then also passes away in

a boxing match later to be Avenged by his son in turn Rocky 4 looking back I was kind of a dumb kid but I guess it shows how much trust kids put in their parents story 39 I was very traumatized by the fact that Santa was not real I just had a great Christmas with my family I was 10 in fourth grade and I spent a lot of time on Christmas Eve trying to stay away on the stairs to catch him in the ACT I eventually gave up and went to sleep when I woke up

the next morning I ran downstairs and I saw all the glistening lights on the trees and the presence underneath it I turned my head to my stocking went over to shake it something big and heavy fell out it was a large Christmas sleigh bell with a wide leather strap attached to it my eyes widened as I realized it was a sleigh bell I cradled it in my hands and took it to my sister as I tried to explain my luck when I found out later that day that Santa wasn't real not only did my sister

laugh at me for believing for so long and my parents look at me with their eyebrows closing in on the arches of their eyes with pity but I also lost some powerful meaningful moments in my childhood that moment when you wake up on Christmas Day and realize the ramifications of the date that first glimpse of the tree when your eyes need to adjust to Consciousness and it's almost too pretty to take in at once it was a tragic and sorrowful day but if you like these stories here's more for you YouTube thinks you're going to

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