As children, when my sisters and I fought, someone would always end the argument by exclaiming that they were going to tell mommy on the others. This always ended with the others begging desperately for the first to not tell. I was cnvinced that 'telling' on a person was somehow a magic way to get what you wanted. One day, I got very mad at my mom for not giving me my way, so I triumphantly declared, "Mommy, I'm telling YOUR mommy on you!" Not only did I not get my way, I couldn't figure out why my mom wouldn't stop laughing.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- When I was young, I said to my mom, "Mommy, make the sun go down!"Anon
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn
- When I was a boy I flushed my fish down the toilet thinking that it would go to its mommy and daddy.— Jeremy Clark
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- If you had a mouth ulcer it's because you've been telling lies.— David Smithers
- my brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon