When I was little, I once saw a van that had four seeing eye dogs in the back seat. I asked my Grandmother why they were in the car and she replied that "There was four seeing eye dogs in the car, one for each direction, to bark and guide a blind person which way they should go while they are driving." I believed this until I was about 17.

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For years, if I would ask my mother for something while we were shopping, she'd ask me what color socks I was wearing. I'd tell her and she would respond "Oh I'm sorry honey, only children with blue (or red, or white, or any other color I was wearing) socks can get that today." I never questioned it; I just continued to think that it was a store rule. I was about eight or nine before it stopped working. I was such a gullible kid...

Note to self: Use this if I ever have children.

When I was younger I was fascinated by make-up especially since my mom didn't wear any. My friend and I used to sneak her mother's lipstick. We got caught a few too many times and since we were really to young to be wearing it she told us a line about how lipstick bleached your lips out leaving them colorless, thus requiring more lipstick to keep up the illusion. The line was believable since the woman had pale lifeless lips (I had seen them). I swore off lipstick until high school as a result!