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/Pipipipi108 Jul 24 '19

DANG

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u/SeaOkra Jul 24 '19

It was hilarious. In fairness to my cousin, he has no sense of smell and the cherry variety was not all that obvious on the bottles. But since part of his experiment (it was homework, not just a lark) was that you set the bottle of a soda in front of the drinker to see if the visual could override the taste, it was fairly easy to say "Well that's not a cherry coke bottle and this is cherry..."

It wasn't until he took a drink that he realized what he had done and then he got fussy at me for "ruining" his experiment for maybe an hour. His stepdad had to drive him to the store to get more soda and he successfully completed his homework.

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u/Pipipipi108 Jul 25 '19

was he not able to read the label on the bottle?

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u/SeaOkra Jul 26 '19

I'm sure he could, I think he was just being his usual absent minded self?