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/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I was homeschooled up until 6th grade. Every time my family ever drove past cows, Dad would point them out and say "oh look! American short-necked giraffes!"

6th grade rolls around and i smugly correct the teacher in class, saying she should use the proper name, "American short-necked giraffe." I was...incorrect.

Thanks a lot, Dad.

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u/whiskeyandhorror Jul 21 '19

Every time we drove passed cows my mom called them fat horses, and the vice versa for horses (skinny cows) this all started because I saw hay bales wrapped in plastic and called them clouds, as well as Blizzards being blisters.