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Considering just about every kid thinks that "Don't use other kids' combs; you'll get head lice" means, "If you use someone else's comb, the forces of the universe will somehow know the comb does not belong to you, and lice will spontaneously generate in your hair", well...

One thing I remember from being a kid about "talking to strangers" was, they always said that if a stranger DOES tell you that your parent is in trouble or in the hospital or something, and they'll take you to them, you'll know they're telling the truth because they'll know the "secret code word" you and your parents came up with ahead of time.

I thought that was just about the coolest thing ever, so I probably told my mother that our secret code word should be "Transformers" or something. She never agreed to that, and probably wouldn't remember it, so we had no secret code word. Not that it mattered, since that situation never came up. And if it did, I guess a savvy child kidnapper might have been able to guess "Transformers", but hey.


Another thing about talking to strangers is that my mother could be so annoying about it. She would tell people her entire life story. Like, when she was pregnant with my brother, we'd be at the grocery store checkout, and a disinterested clerk would be scanning, say, some milk, she would say, "Yes, I need to make sure to drink enough milk to stay healthy because I'm PREGNANT!"