Texas mom is embarrassed after believing daughter's strange pills were drugs

A Texas mom was convinced her 16-year-old daughter, Ashley, was doing drugs. But instead the pills were ... A Texas mom was convinced her 16-year-old daughter, Ashley, was doing drugs. But instead the pills were ... Photo: Twitter.com/acbanks3 Photo: Twitter.com/acbanks3 Image 1 of / 36 Caption Close Texas mom is embarrassed after believing daughter's strange pills were drugs 1 / 36 Back to Gallery

Sometimes, parents, your teenage children are actually telling the truth.

And if you don't believe them, they're going to do what most kids do these days: Tell the world and post it on social media.

Oh, and did we mention it could go viral and make you a laughingstock?

That's what happened with one Texas family last week. A 16-year-old named Ashley Banks (not to be confused with Will Smith's little cousin on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air") posted a funny exchange between her and her mother.

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Ashley texted her mother and asked her to retrieve a calculator from her room and leave it in the mailbox so a friend can pick it up.

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Instead, Mom ran across a bag of multi-colored pills. Understandably concerned her daughter was abusing drugs, she demanded an explanation and gave her this stern warning:

"Ashley Carol I will not have drugs in my house. Come home right now. As soon as your dad comes home from California we will discuss your consequences."

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Ashley pleaded her case (with "laughing" emojis), and told her the pills weren't drugs, but Mom wasn't buying it.

"Go put them in water," Ashley texted.

Mom relented, put the funny-looking pills in water, and noticed that they expand into non-narcotic foam dinosaurs.

Ashley not only laughed at her mom again, she posted the texts on Twitter on June 3. As of Monday afternoon, it was re-tweeted 30,000 times and "loved" 44,000 times, making Ashley something of a teenage hero was turning the tables on her mother in spectacular fashion.

The story has been picked by U.S. media and even the UK's Daily Mail and The Sun.

While Ashley may be innocent, plenty of other kids have done some reckless things in the name of fun. Click through the slideshow above to see dangerous games kids play.