What lies did your parent tell you as a kid?

Question

What lies did your parent tell you as a kid?

Answer 1

That when the ice cream man plays a tune he has no ice creams left :-(

Answer 2

that he makes me dress a certain way for success

Answer 3

your daddy will be back....then he left me and her for another woman....

i am still angry at him for that...and the divorce happened 9 years ago

Answer 4

That we were a middle-class family.

It took me until I was 11 or 12 to figure out that we were firmly NOT in the middle class, and I only figured that out by noticing that the local welfare recipients generally had bigger TV's and more video games and more expensive stuff than we did =(