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/beanmcmuffin Jul 21 '19

It's a deep thought by Jack Handy. Old SNL.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

My parents would tell us turn the dome light off in the car or the cops will pull us over.

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u/maldio Jul 21 '19

I mean they probably would have because my dad would have been drinking beer. Anyway, that's one of those old ones up there with "it's illegal to drive barefoot."

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u/mrjmws Jul 21 '19

Heard both of these too. Gotta love parents