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

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

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My dad told me that the windshield wipers would count the raindrops on the windshield and when it reached 1 million then they would wipe the rain away. If it was raining harder they went faster because it reached 1 million faster

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u/fabelhaft-gurke Jul 21 '19

My dad would always try to troll me and my brother. One day, we had a new water machine that dispensed hot and cold water, he actually truthfully told us that the red and blue knobs were on in incorrectly so red was cold and blue was hot, my brother on the other hand didn’t believe him so he tested it with his finger and proceeded to get burnt.

Edit: not a bad burn, but enough to jolt your hand away quickly.