When I was little my mom wouldn't let me take showers when it was storming outside. Why? Because you will get struck by lightening.
Well, unfortunately:
How scary are those lightening bolts? I sat on my bed this morning, sweaty in my yoga clothes and unshowered since monday, wondering if a shower was worth the risk... you know, of dying. Then I thought of all the things my mom has taught me that aren't true.
If you use shampoo from a grocery store and not from a salon your hair will end up looking and feeling like a horses tail. Obviously not true. I learned this freshman year of college.
If you breath in the pesticides from the mosquito trucks, you will die. I realize that the pesticides probably aren't good for you, but DIE? Too far.
Microwaves and aluminum cans give you cancer. False.
If you don't clean your plate at Golden Corral you have to pay extra. I can't believe I fell for this one. Note that my mom wouldn't let me use Herbal Essences, but did let me eat at Golden Corral. There is no logic.
So, I took a shower. I mean, how many people do you know who have gotten struck by lightening in the shower? Case proven.
Part of growing up is learning that most of the things your parents taught you are lies.
so true.
ReplyDeleteonce i got to college, i began unraveling the ball of lies entangling my notion of "fact" that i had accumulated over the years of living in the midwest suburbs north of the city.
1. you really crack me up.
ReplyDelete2. love the lies your mama told you.
3. those lightening bolts are SO scary!!
4. the last line of the post should be the first line of a memoir ;)