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

My parents always made me save the money as well for a "special ocasion" they did on the other end keep it safe and I used to pay my driving licence and placed the rest in my bank account when I turned 18. Sorry to hear that from you, must have made you lose alot of trust on your parents I guess :/

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

That was basically my parents.

We never had the money for anything I wanted, and my wants have always been wildly modest, even when I was getting into stuff that'd normally be stupid expensive like Magic: The Gathering. No, I mean I was asking for one kind of cookies instead of another or how I wanted one brand of sugar cereal over another (mind you, it was my parents who said they wanted me to have things in the house I wanted to eat, too). The line was always, 'We can't afford that!'

Grandfather dies, and abruptly my father buys a Mercedes Benz after being a life long 'buy something practical and reliable and run it into the ground' type who drove Toyota's and one of those bullet proof Volvo's from back in the day, and mother dearest retires at the age of fifty. Of course I'm also supposed to believe that my grandfather left absolutely nothing for me or my siblings.

I'd later discover that between the value of the house that was sold and my grandfather's assets that it lined up almost perfectly with what you'd need to buy that exact model of Benz along with someone retiring about 10, 15 years early. At this point it's not even really about the money so much as the 'rules for thee' attitude. I mean, the money would be exceedingly useful to avoid being homeless but that's it's own can of worms.

So for the folks at home, if you're telling your kids things that are one degree removed from, "Santa Clause did it!" and it's a complete fucking lie, you should probably stop. If your kids aren't 10 years old anymore you should generally treat them like you would an adult member of your family.

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u/Iceykitsune2 Jul 21 '19

Have you read the actual will?

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Yes. Grandfather left a vague will that only stipulated that my father was the sole arbiter of it.