What is the dumbest lie you believed as a kid?

What is the dumbest lie you believed as a kid? I was 7 years old. One of my teachers wanted us to write a letter to a family member or friend or someone. I wrote the letter. Got the envelope. Got the stamp. My mom had worked at the county jail at the time, and she suggested I write one of the inmates who never got mail. So, I did. I wrote something along the lines of "I'm sorry you're arrested but I hope you get out." I even signed it with my 7-year-old signature.

While I was writing the letter my mom had left to get to the store. When I finished my letter, I asked my older brother what our address was because I needed to put a return address. He said:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC and some numbers. For those that don't know, that's the address to The White House.

I wrote it on the letter and put it with the mail my mom was sending out. Funny thing is that I grew up far away from Pennsylvania and never left the state.

Years later I went to pick my mom up from work and one of the coworkers called me Mister President and I asked why he said that. He mentioned the letter I wrote years prior and how it was a funny joke in the jail any time my mom mentioned me.

#shorts #short #redditstories

[tonyg]

You know, it’s brilliant. Don’t want to be giving unknown convicts your address

[cat_in_the_corner]

i once told my younger brothers that every single store in the city has to close at 10pm on the dot and that is was illegal for the shops to be open past 10…my youngest brother still believes it at 12 YO..

[Neoxenok]

Future plot twist: He actually becomes the US President.

[Sniffe]

Imagine an in mate asking his mom: Hello Cathrin, how's mr President?

[wadewilson]

I feel so sorry for the guy. He even made the comment that he lives nowhere near Pennsylvania. Poor kid still doesn't realize the white house isn't in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Avenue is just the name of the street. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[pianoleeuwarden]

My grandma a pro in ventriloquizing. And she had me convinced any random household object could talk.

[FantasticFibi]

The dumbest lies I believed, was that my parents loved me and each other.

[Sirri_Wolf]

My mum used to tell my brother and I that if we didn't fart, then we would die. I still dont understand that one. She just scared her own kids as a result. 😂

[abbymitchell]

when i was in 3rd grade, i believed that there were only 1, 000 people on earth. idk how i got that number, but i believed it. then one day the teacher asked me how many people were on earth, i said confidently, “one-thousand” and she goes bug eyed and says “ONE-THOUSAND? TRY EIGHT BILLION!” i was floored

[vivienpace]

My dad comes from sicilia. And in sicilia there is a chanel on tv that shows the volcano Etna all day. When I saw the chanel he told me that he put the cameras there cause the volcano belongs to us. I legit thought my dad owns a volcano....😂

[adyj]

When I was young, to get my younger siblings to tell me the truth, I told them I had little hidden cameras everywhere, and I knew what they were saying and doing. they believed me.

[melissalutz]

I was 7 or 8 and watching the show Roseanne and they kept saying the word “Erection” so I asked my brother what it meant… he told me it’s a place in Texas lol we still laugh at that and I’m nearly 40 now.

[Morilin]

I had an assignment in school to write someone a letter once, I was probably about 15. I picked my first grade teacher, who was in jail for child touching. At the time, I completely believed he was innocent and wrote to tell him that, but the teacher never sent it out.

[melancholicpotato]

My mother used to tell me condensed milk was camel milk and i believed her because the condense milk can had a picture of camel on it.

[EmilyFaust-uxqw]

I told my sister, who's 2 years younger than me, that I was the long lost princess of india, but that it had to be a secret so she couldn't tell our parents. She believed me.

...I'm white. We're both white.

[Vio.]

I had a teacher that I didn’t like in 1st grade, and I hated her so much that my parents had to lie to me and say that she bought me a toy and delivered it to my house that toy was similar to an American Girl doll but bigger, at that time I was confused how she knew where I lived but never questioned it 😂.

[Gemski]

Marmite was made of dog poop. I was 8 years old and my sister had to destroy the one thing I already sorta liked.
Found out years later that it's actually yeast but never liked or ate it again.

[Thing.One.]

That the crust is the healthiest part of the bread.
Dumb child I was.

[yannyambriz]

The biggest lie Ive has Heard: love Is real 👏🏻

[Ashee]

I live close to Pennsylvania and my mom works at a jail and I wrote that to my mom and the prisoners laughed there asses off