Originally Posted By LVBelle E.T. lived in my closet. I was terrified. I had a Disneyland Christmas record. I thought that when I was older I could go to Disneyland and join the characters that were singing and become part of the record too. I thought ballet was pronounced "bal-let" with an -et sound. I still get quoted to this day, "It's spelled bal-let so I'm gonna say it bal-let!!!" What crazy things did you think when you were little?
Originally Posted By Lisann22 That spiders & eggs made babies. That when people had "crabs" they were like crabs down at the SF wharf. I thought dang that must be really painful on your privates. I thought that if I grew up and got a job as a bank teller I would have really made it. Whew boy!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan That $1,000, carefully managed, would be enough to live on for the rest of my life.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost ^^^^And you would have been correct if you only lived about a week and a half.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS When I was little I thought that 30 was old. Now that I'm older I really wish that I were 30 again.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost When I was real young, before electricity, we had to watch TV by candlelight. "rim shot" Anyway, in early TV they had some travel films and I was probably about 6 and watching the old 12 inch screen when they were doing a show on Italy. At one point, they talked about the spaghetti harvest in Italy. They showed trees with long straight strands of (something) hanging from them. Then they showed people picking them off the trees and laying them out in the (I assume, Tuscan) sun to dry. Since I was watching it alone and there was no one there to correct me, I believed that this was where spaghetti came from. When I mentioned this fact to someone, years later, I was of course laughed almost off the planet. I told them I saw it on TV but nobody believed me. Flash forward many, many years and another travel show was airing sort of like a bloopers show about travel. They mentioned that this had been a big hoax, like an April fools joke of early television. I was finally vindicated, but by then I was in my 50's so I kinda knew it wasn't true anyway.
Originally Posted By crazycroc The pale green pants with no one inside them from Dr. Seuss scared the bejesus out of me.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 When I was about five my mom was driving my sister and me somewhere. We passed this incredibly big (at least to my mind) house for sale. I told my mom she should buy it and she said it was too expensive. I replied, "is it more than a hundred dollars?!" To me, $100 meant that someone was rich. I also thought I would be a Disneyland Princess when I grew up...I thought they all lived in the castle, so I thought it was a pretty good gig.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip When I was young I thought babies were born out of their mom's mouth. I mean they grew in the stomach, right? When I later learned their was a place apart from the stomach where they grew, and that this place had it's own exit, I was much relieved!
Originally Posted By Stacers76 I couldn't quite get his (the actor's) realname right, so as a kid, Bert from Mary Poppins was played by Dick Dyke Dan. Yep don't know how I got that either
Originally Posted By murfsmom When I was little we would watch a show called Hometown Jamboree, My grandfather played the bass in the band. I would wave and wave and then cry because he never waved back ! I thought he could see me like I could seem him !!
Originally Posted By alphabetmom When I was was real little and not having dad. I thought a girl was a girl because of her long hair and a boy was a boy because of his short hair. One time I asked my mom about a baby, after all a lot of babies have only a little hair. I got a very very short lesson of the body. Boys and girls have different private parts, this left me confused for many years.
Originally Posted By avimagine You mean McDonald's close?! When I was little I thought that kids should have thier own kid sized cars to drive to school. It would be so cool. I would be successful rich, smart and good looking as an adult. I was in Southern California during the time a serial killer was doin' his stuff. I thought that it would be the window coverings not the locks on the windows that would keep him out. "No keep the window open! just close the curtains!" Wired wheels were the epitome of fashion. 30,000 would buy you a very nice car. You could fall into the toilet and be flushed down with the gators. .... Lots more
Originally Posted By avimagine Alphabet silly, you know girls have 8 fingers and two thumbs, boys have two thumbs and... well you get the idea
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne I was still pretty little when mad cow disease was all over the news- I stopped eating meat because I was convinced I would catch it. I also believed that all doctors were men and all nurses female - I think I had a picture book passé down from when my mum was a kid that more or less said this so when my best friend told me her Dad was a nurse- I was shocked. My brother though was far more gullible as a child than I and I managed to convince him all sorts of wrong things.. Though I had no part in his honest belief that 'Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah' was a special song my Mum wrote just to sing with him.. When they sang it in music class in school he was all sorts of horrified to hear the whole grade new it! He also wanted to grow up to be a plumber ( like our grandfather) so he could pick the plums!
Originally Posted By avimagine ^^ What's with gullible baby brothers? "I got your nose" "No!!! give it back". Just don't ask me what I thought when I was 9.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I couldn't figure out why the THIRD hand on a clock was called the SECOND hand. I could plainly see that all clocks had two hands (the first and second), and some clocks had a third hand. So why was it called the SECOND hand??? I finally figured it out, though. The first two, being common to all clocks, were referred to as the "first" hand, and if there was an extra was it was called the "second" hand. I was a pretty clever kid, no?
