Stupid Theories 101...

I’m not sure that I am comfortable with the fact that totally ridiculous stories that fly in the face of reasoning are called “wives tales”!!

I mean, why not just “tales” or “stupid theories” for that matter?!

Recently I begin to think back to my own childhood and all of the ‘rules’ that my own Mother laid down that seemed a bit sketchy to me at the time….

#1 – Do NOT make ugly faces because your face may get stuck that way...

#2 – Fat, fuzzy, brown and black caterpillars should NEVER be touched…because my Mom heard a true story of a little girl (coincidentally, my very age, every time she told me the story…. sketchy!) who touched one and ended up with a rogue caterpillar hair in her eye…
which caused her to go blind…
in both eyes!

What are the odds of that?!

#3 – I refuse to discuss all of the additional ways that blindness could be caused…

#4 - If you go outside with your hair wet, you most likely WILL catch pneumonia… (Even if it is 88° degrees outside!)

I saved my best one for last!

#5 - DO NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES break icicles off of the edge of the roof to suck on like a Popsicle, because they…

Are ready for this one?…

CAUSE POLIO!!

(This rule applies to eating snow as well…)

Give me some of your Mom-isms (wives tales)…
I’d like to know that I’m not the only one who endured these while growing up…