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What’s something you were warned about as a child that you now feel was exaggerated?
What’s something you were warned about as a child that you now feel was exaggerated?
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drug peer pressure. nobody I MEAN NOBODY BE OFFERING ME WEED
Quicksand.
Flashers.
Yes I am aware it would have been scary as a child but as a gay adult man I’m kind of disappointed. I was promised forest cock :/
Don’t swim for an hour after eating.
Sitting too close to the tv will damage your eyesight. My eyesight is perfectly fine.
Plus, I have two monitors for work that are each bigger than most of the tvs we had while I was growing up so going to be hard to not do that anyway.
Acid rain.
Whatever happened with that?
Every child in the UK is warned that swans can break your arm.
Swallowing chewing gum
When I was a kid my school did the typical “you could be walking down the street and a random person will offer you drugs”. I’m still waiting for this magic man
“If you fail your exams your life is going to go downhill” or words to that effect.
I failed my English Language initially back in school, but now I am in the best university in the UK for Media Production!
Quicksand.
I remember so many TV shows where a character would get stuck and sink almost to their mouth before they’d be rescued in the nick of time. True terror.
Fake friends. As in “it’s sooo hard to tell who’s just acting, be careful and figure out who actually likes you”
At this point I’d be totally okay with someone who only pretends to like me, if that means I had someone at all
Checking for razors in Halloween candy
The dangers of certain mind altering substances. When you know you know. It’s over exaggerated to the extent they actually make you want to do and try it all. Some aren’t good whatsoever, others have helped me appreciate life snd the universe in ways I never could’ve imagined without experimentation. It is what it is.
Being randomly kidnapped. It is way more rare than it was made out to be. STRANGER DANGER!
Writing in pen vs writing in pencil
The dangers and likelihood of having to deal with quicksand, trap doors, junkyard dogs, etc
Leaving the fridge door hang open too long while I look for food.
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The amount of cold that falls out over 40 seconds is pretty much the same as the amount of cold that falls out over 10 seconds.
“You have two freakin houses, but please, take 5 bucks and stop micromanaging my snack time when I’m visiting.”
Being on fire and having to stop drop and roll. I’m 32 and have yet to be on fire in any way.
Grew up in the 1980”s. Was terrified of the Russians invading Germany
Their armed forces are a joke
Strangers trying to trick kids into taking drugs .
This was early 90s rave culture hysteria. Part of the culture involved the use of cartoon characters, printed on pills or acids tabs. Our boomer parents couldn’t comprehend the use cartoon characters in adult culture (which wasn’t the norm at the time to be fair) and assumed it must be to lure kids into getting hooked on drugs, as if that was something anyone would want to do.
Random strangers with drugs.
When I was in 2nd grade, a flyer went out warning kids at school to be aware of strangers handing out LSD stamps. It explained that it would cause our brains to not function properly and we could go crazy. It scared the hell out of me.
I’m 45 now and I’ve never tried LSD. I’m not scared to do it (I have eaten mushrooms) but I certainly have never been offered LSD. Definitely not for free.
Bad grades in school meant you’d never get into University and your life would be over before it started.
Fucking degree is a somehow ironically the most expensive worthless thing I have, and didn’t need it for my job
Promaja (draft, wind). No idea why the common belief is that it is dangerous.
The bogeyman in the bush was something my parents always warned us about.
The stats show that if I was gonna be kidnapped or assaulted, it would have been my Little League coach or crazy Uncle Cleetus.
Eating raw cookie dough
Stray animals. Seriously. You can just go pet them and nothing is going to happen. Especially cats.
Like everything
Stop, drop, and roll.
Falling from a cliff. Don’t know why, but I thought cliffs were far more common in our society. Like, you could find one everywhere at any time so you had to always pay attention to them.
Getting salmonella from eating cookie dough