If you don't wear lipstick, you'll never get a man. Well, that was what I was told. I never believed it, though. And guess what ...yep, I got one!
i was a skepitical realist from birth, it seems, since i took all such stuff with a box of morton's, applying what i thought was simple 'common sense' to 'em [soon thereafter realizing that's an oxymoron], before taking any seriously... my next younger sister, however, was another case... our mom always told my 3 sisters [1 older, 2 younger] and me 'don't eat sugar out of the bowl, it'll give you worms!'... now, since she was a registered nurse, one would think she knew such things and should be believed, right?... i, the skeptic, knew it was motherly bs and went on sneaking a spoonful whenever no one was looking... and never pulled that one on my own kids, just telling them not to 'or else!'... the 'else' being a swat, not squirmy things in their innards... then, one day when my next younger sister who was 17 at the time came for a visit, she caught one of my then 5 stairstep kids dipping into the sugar bowl and with a horrified look and gasp, burst out with, 'Don't do that, you'll get worms!'... had i not blown our mom's deception and told susie the truth, i've no doubt she'd have been thinking that was true to this day...
Mine are pretty perfectionistic and educated so I never experienced this, but my husband has a few stories to tell (bitterly) about the crap his dad "taught" him I guess it hurts because it takes them down a notch in his eyes, and that's always difficult to deal with, because parents were our gods once.
