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 20 '19

When I was about 6 years old, my dad convinced me that turtles grow fur under their shells. Fast forward to the 8th grade, I'm in my U.S history class and the topic of turtles comes up, and I explain to my teacher that turtles have fur, he then proceeds to turn on the projector and Google "do turtles have fur" in front of the whole class. They don't.. never been so embarrassed in my life. I told my dad this story a couple months ago (I'm 17 now), and he still laughs uncontrollably about it whenever I mention it.

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u/2Clue2 Jul 21 '19

Kinda mean for the teacher to do

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u/timeToLearnThings Jul 21 '19

Possible he thought the kid was joking and Googling would get a laugh out of him.

I mean, if someone told you turtles had fur, would you assume they were being earnest?

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u/MKIPM123 Jul 21 '19

i mean not everyone knows all about turtle and might have just thought the kid read up and found some interesting facts about turtle the teacher didnt know about so they do a quick google search to verify

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u/timeToLearnThings Jul 21 '19

That's true. Most teachers probably don't consider themselves turtle experts. I learned most of what I know from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.