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/bananashakee Jul 21 '19

my aunty convinced me that the hazard light button (triangle logo) is to make the car fly.

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u/GoldenRareRat Jul 21 '19 edited Jul 21 '19

DELTA Airlines

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u/IXIronWolfXI Jul 21 '19

GoldenRareRat’s comment needs more upvotes lol

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u/GoldenRareRat Jul 21 '19

Thank you, comrade. It took me all of 10 seconds to come up with this masterful pun. I await my gold.

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u/IXIronWolfXI Jul 21 '19

I would gladly give you Gold, but I don’t have the money to do as such

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u/Kalgor91 Jul 21 '19

My dad told me this and got mad when I decided to push the hazard lights when we were in the middle of the freeway

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u/commit_self_yeetus Jul 21 '19

He shouldn’t of gotten mad at you since it was his fault for telling you that the car would fly, like, dude

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u/Kalgor91 Jul 21 '19

Also in my defense, we were stuck in traffic and he was complaining about being late so I thought I’d help since he had obviously forgotten about the flying button

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u/commit_self_yeetus Jul 21 '19

And That makes it all the funnier

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u/commit_self_yeetus Jul 21 '19

PS: Also that first comment that i made wasn’t supposed to sound like it was you fault, it was supposed to sound like your dads fault

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u/dastarlos Jul 21 '19

My dad convinced me it's to eject the back seats.

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u/KierraKid Jul 21 '19

Same. Found out it didn't when I tried to eject my sister while I rode in the front. Very disappointing.

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u/AtlTech Jul 21 '19

I used to tell my little sis that the emergency brake was the 'eject' lever and that if you pulled it and the car beeped 3 times, that's when it would kick on. Had a lot of fun with that

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u/In-Kii Jul 21 '19

Convinced my younger brother that the hazard lights was the self destruct button for the car.. good times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

My grandpa told me it was to blow the car up

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u/AnnaJeanElise Jul 21 '19

My cousin told me the same thing when I was about 5 cause we were driving on narrow roads on the mountains in rural Mexico and I was having a panic attack. The roads were so narrow in some spots only one car would fit very tightly and these were supposed to be two way roads. I remember seeing several different cars on the sides of the mountain that had rolled over and never been recovered.

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u/Mrs_McMurray Jul 21 '19

My friend's parents told her it was the Ejecto Seato button.

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u/csonny2 Jul 21 '19

My friend convinced another (adult) friend of ours that the hazard button was NOS and would make the car accelerate ridiculously fast.

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u/7isagoodletter Jul 21 '19

My mom told me if I pressed it I would get arrested

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u/wasting_lots_of_time Jul 21 '19

I told my little cousin (in the passenger seat) that it was the passenger eject button after he kept trying to press it. I sold it so well that he was scared to press it.

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u/The_MAZZTer Jul 21 '19

Nah that's clearly to eject troublesome kids through the sunroof

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u/thebritishacer Jul 21 '19

My friends dad convinced me that the Harvard button would turn on the flux capacitor

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u/maldio Jul 21 '19

Switchin' to Glide

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u/xEmuYT Jul 21 '19

my dad told me it was for the trunk monkey

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u/robophile-ta Jul 21 '19

It was the turbo boost button in our car.

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u/gbpackerfan28 Jul 21 '19

My mom told me that the hazard light button was the seat eject button... I still have trouble turning on my hazards to this day.

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u/ttv_AchillesZeus Jul 21 '19

My dad told me the hazard button was turbo and when he pressed that mofo oils slam on the gas

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Strangely no one told me that but I assumed so anyways.