I’m borrowing these from Reader’s Digest this week. Wish I’d thought of these lies we tell our kids.
— “If the ice cream truck is playing music, it means it’s run out of ice cream.”
— “Her Dad said if she looked after a special growing rock and watered it until it stopped growing, she could get a dog. She watered it and while she was at school, her Dad replaced it with a bigger rock.”
— “Toys grow under the weeds in the yard and if you pull the weeds, eventually a toy will pop out.”
— “They don’t sell replacement batteries for that toy.
— And a personal one: Because my Daddy was a Southern preacher who was often in touch with Jesus, I’m cautious about this one. My brother and I prayed every night for a blue Schwinn bicycle.
Daddy said Baby Jesus provides for all our needs but maybe not our wants and besides it was rude to ask Him for something so specific. My brother said if he had a bike, he could get a paper route.
A bicycle soon appeared on the front porch of the parsonage. It wasn’t new. It wasn’t blue, but it worked. Daddy never admitted to buying it.
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Thank you for the music –
Colin Tribe and grandson, Edward
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