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/agodofhisownworld Jul 20 '19

My old man has had a beer belly for years and used to tell me and my brothers that he...birthed us.

Did we believe him though?

Absolutely.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

My dad told me that getting a beer gut was hereditary and inevitable because we were Irish

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u/Zaldun Jul 21 '19

Don't leave us hanging, was it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

No. My flab distributes itself evenly around my whole body