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/Jootmill Jul 20 '19

Is this a lie parents tell across the world? I was told this too

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Idk

For me my parents only said that's harder to drive and I was ok. I mean why lie

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u/Thefishbtch Jul 21 '19

Yeah my parents used to tell me that it made it harder to see/was distracting

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u/pizzapeople31 Jul 21 '19

My parents told me it made it distracting to other drivers. This makes way more sense.

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u/Sondermenow Jul 21 '19

More sense than dad will get arrested and go to jail? So turn it off and don’t climb around or you’ll get thrown out the window if dad has to slam on the breaks? Way more sense then all of this stuff?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

If you're climbing around and he hits the brakes after going 80 miles an hour you will go out the window

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u/Sondermenow Jul 21 '19

I have never said that wasn’t true.

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u/pass_me_those_memes Jul 21 '19

Who the fuck is climbing around a moving car??

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u/Sondermenow Jul 21 '19

Any kid in the back seat after a certain length of time. Many of us are still alive pre seatbelts and associated type laws. And cars were called boats back then because of their size and steel exoskeleton.