'What's the worst lie you were told as a kid?': 30+ Redditors share the hilarious and stupid things their parents clearly lied about

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 15, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Parents, you may tell a few little white lies to your kid every now and then… but kids don't always realize you're stretching the truth. These Redditors gathered at r/AskReddit to answer the question, "What's the worst lie you were told as a kid?" The answers range from hilarious to head-scratching, and there's quite a variety of lies, too!

I know several people who believed the "chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows" myth. One person here wrote that their sister had them super convinced that they were gotten from the zoo, while another wrote that their mom said police have X-rays to see if you are strapped in to your seat belt. As a kid, you just believe anything! 

After you scroll through these wild lies parents told their children, check out this delivery driver who was frustrated to get an order that was nearly bigger than his car. 

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    Gesture - 'My dad always told me... to be home before 9pm, because they would roll the side walks up and turn the traffic lights off.'
    via Ben Wicks
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    Font - r/AskReddit Posted by u/nopomegranates 97 46 S5 What's the worst lie you were told as a kid?
    via u/nopomegranates97
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    Font - WanderingGenesis That my first pet, my turtle Michaelangelo, ran away when I was a kid. 394 Share substantial-freud Ran away?
    via u/WanderingGenesis
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    Font - Rare_Bill157 The ATM is closed. When I got my first check and my money was deposited into my parents account.
    via u/Rare_Bill157
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    Font - AscLuna One day while driving with my mom we were passing some factories that were letting off smoke, just kind of a white smoke out of a huge tube of some sort. My mom said "look thats how clouds are made" and i believed it for a few years. It wasnt until my science class in maybe third grade that i learned about clouds and had to tell my mom that that was in fact not how clouds were made
    via u/AscLuna
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    Font - Significant-Fix-18 the world was black and white in the past 739 Gruesome Share Calvin's dad!
    via u/Significant-Fix-18
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    Font - Elementus94 Tell the truth, I promise I won't get mad
    via u/Elementus94
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    Font - yankstraveler Being told "maybe" or "we'll see." We all know d well that means no.
    via u/yankstraveler
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    Font - SagebrushID My mom always made me hand over my babysitting money to her for "safekeeping." I never kept track of how much I gave her. When I turned 18, she gave me a few hundred dollars and threw me out of the house (I still had a few months before graduation). It wasn't until a few years later I figured out that she gave me about half of what I had given her over the years.
    via u/SagebrushID
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    Font - thewonderred My dad always told me we had to be home before 9pm because they would roll the side walks up and turn the traffic lights off.
    via u/thewonderred
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    Font - FartsRFunn My sister told me that they stole me from a zoo and I was actually a monkey and they had to shave me every night so I wouldn't know. I believed her. Every time we went to a zoo she would point at the monkeys and say "look there's your family".
    via u/FartsRFunn
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    Font - ipakookapi 'We're not fighting, we're just talking' No, that's screaming. And you hate each other, please get divorced already. -10 yo me
    via u/ipakookapi
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    Font - tlovik My grandmother told me that everytime you tell a lie or swear, your heart gets a black dot. When the heart is completely black, you end up in h 178 Share SheManatee This kinda gave me chills.
    via u/tlovik
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    Smile - Actual_grass "You are so lucky to have a parent like me, other children would do anything to have me as a mother." Turns out that was, in fact, not the truth.
    via u/Actual_grass
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    Font - SamBaldwin99 Theres a small box on the back of wind turbines in the middle of the 3 splines. My brother told me when i was a kid that there was a man turning a wheel inside it and that is what made the turbine spin. I then asked how he would drink and eat so high in the air?! No ladder? He replied and said that a helicopter would fly up and pass food and drink in through a small window. I believed this until i was sat in a science lesson and made the argument infront of the whole class to
    via u/SamBaldwin99
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    Font - DarthStinkie That mom has eyes in the back of her neck. Scared the sout of me as a kid
    via u/DarthStinkie
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    Font - eelolwafy my mom told me that police had x- rays in their car so they could see if someone didnt have their seatbelt on i cant believe i thought that was real
    via u/eelolwaty
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    Font - MankeyMaster "If you work hard and treat everyone with respect, you'll be successful" Good to know all my hard work and politeness is worth barely enough for rent and food.
    via u/MankeyMaster
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    Font - Cornelis-_- 9 year old me wanted so bad to start training any kind of martial arts. My mom said there is no idea to start training martial arts cause you have to train for at least 10 years before even starting to train punches or kicks. And that Im not tough enough anyway. 15 year old me was shocked at my first thaiboxing lesson when the trainer immediatly had us hitting pads.
    via u/Cornelis-_-
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    Font - GRO Leading-Rip8965 When I was in grade 4 my neighbour who was in grade 5, told me that she went on a school field trip to the FREAKING SKY and had a picnic in the clouds with all of her classmates!! And that when I reached grade 5 I would go on that field trip too. I looked forward to that field trip for so long
    via u/Leading-Rip8965
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    Font - SKmaric "You're a man, act like one" I was in fact, not a man, but a child.
    via u/SKmaric
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    Human body - SecondRealPerson Fish and dairy products together causes illness
    via u/SecondRealPerson
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    Font - JollyGreenGiant_8 Money can't buy happiness. Maybe it can't but it sure does give you peace of mind.
    via u/JollyGreenGiant_8
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    Font - amazingtalla When I was little my dad and I were watching the news and I think Bush was speaking or something. It was in the middle of summer and I told him how they wear suits while it's hot. He told me they have AC inside the suits. I deada believed and don't know better till I was a teenager.
    via u/amazingtalla
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    Smile - Expert_Lingonberry86 Everytime lightning strikes, the devil is coming for you. I was 7-8 years old when I was told that lie.
    via u/Expert_Lingonberry86
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    Hair - BlackWidowCab993 It was illegal to turn the light on in the car while driving
    via u/BlackWidowCab993
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    Human body - [deleted] You can be anything you want if you just work hard enough.
    via u/[deleted]

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