» Lies Your Parents Told You

Crocodiles...
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Not a parent, but my Uncle Dave told me, when I was 6 or 7, that the bite-shaped scar above his eyebrow was from when he was swimming in a lake and a crocodile bit him. He told me in great detail how he thwarted the crocodile with the cunning use of a floating twig by stuffing it in the croc's mouth making the jaws stay open.

Later that week in school we were supposed to write a true story about our families. So I wrote about my Uncle and the crocodile.

I got shouted at and called a "bold young girl for telling lies" by my teacher and I was made to stand in the corner and was put on litter-picking duty at first break and dinner break.

When I told my mum about this she said she would sort it out. Next day the teacher apologised and gave me a Mars bar. Turns out she had actually taught my Uncle many years before and she should have known better.

The scar was actually from a very nasty road accident involving an ice-cream van (evil) and a big green truck, which made my mum cry when she told me the true story, so he is doubly evil.

He also once told me he wrote "Mr Bean". The git.

(Sorry about the length, I get over-excited easily :oP)
(Thu 15th Jan 2004, 0:51, More)