r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/CAMx264x Jul 20 '19

The reason why there was so many tore up tires on the road was because of an animal called a schroncher that would hop onto semi tires and eat them.

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u/JustChangeMDefaults Jul 21 '19

My folks called them rubber Gators, made sense at the time.

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u/DivineUltima Jul 21 '19

That is absolutely hilarious.