My parents used to tell me lies all of the time as a kid. My parents used to tell me that if I didn't behave the garbage man was going to pick me up with the trash. (It wasn't so hilarious at the time.) Apparently that was the duel role of the waste management people--to pick up kids that misbehaved.

On a trip to Wisconsin Dells my parents took me and my siblings to a dinner buffet style restaurant. I filled my plate with calamari. I started to eat it and noticed that it was a little strange. I thought I had taken chicken strips. I asked my parents what it was and they laughed and told me I was eating fish. It wasn't until we got in the car that they told me it was squid. I nearly threw up.

According to Daily Mail, my parents weren't alone in white lying to their kids to get them to behave, calm down or to stop asking questions.

The six most popular lies that parents tell their kids are;

1. "When ice cream trucks play music it means that they are out of ice cream." LOL

2. "If you act up at McDonald's you'll get a Sad Meal instead of a Happy Meal." This is just genius.

3. "This isn't pop, this is black water. You wouldn't like it." This lie was crafted by a mastermind parent.

4. "They don't sell batteries for that toy anymore." My parents haven't used this one on me, but they did take batteries out of my toy before and told me that I must have lost them. They were sneaky.

5. "Calamarie is Italian for onion rings." My parents have literally used a version of this lie on me.

6. "Chuck E. Cheese is only for birthday parties.  You have to be invited to one to go there." This is a great lie. It would totally make sense to a kid brain.

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