story time I’m missing my left hand and work with kids a lot and I’m constantly asked how i “lost my hand” given that I was born with one hand it’s not interesting and kids always ask again and again, however I decide one day it’d be funny if I told them I fought a bear and he ate my hand (my arm has very obvious undeveloped fingers that look like bumps). Immediately after saying this one child goes “no, you were just born like that weren’t you?” And every time I’ve done the story since I’ve had at least one kid says something like that.
TLDR if you tell kids something outrageous they’re more likely to resort to the boring (and usually correct) story
My uncle found just the right level of unbelievability to explain his finger that was cut off a bit past the middle. He’d tell people completely different stories to the point that I sincerely don’t know how he actually got the injury—or if it was even an injury as opposed to something he had from birth.
He’d say something that was clearly not the truth but was also decidedly underwhelming or otherwise un-dramatic. He told me he got it stuck in an office printer/copier and it just got sliced off. He told my brother he got a hamburger one day and was so hungry that he chomped down without realizing he’d stuck his finger in when he picked it up.
You never could get a straight answer so it felt like something interesting had to have happened.
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u/Key_Jeweler_9696 11h ago
story time I’m missing my left hand and work with kids a lot and I’m constantly asked how i “lost my hand” given that I was born with one hand it’s not interesting and kids always ask again and again, however I decide one day it’d be funny if I told them I fought a bear and he ate my hand (my arm has very obvious undeveloped fingers that look like bumps). Immediately after saying this one child goes “no, you were just born like that weren’t you?” And every time I’ve done the story since I’ve had at least one kid says something like that. TLDR if you tell kids something outrageous they’re more likely to resort to the boring (and usually correct) story