childish notions

[EricNoah]

My dad's a minister. When I was a kid, I had the notion that anything my parents didn't like was a sin. I didn't understand the difference between their personal preferences and "ultimate good/evil." So as a kid, I thought...

... anyone who watched the Flinstones or Popeye was a sinner.
... anyone who drank coffee was a sinner.
... anyone who was "too rich" was a sinner.

Yeah. I was like 3 or 4 when these beliefs were prevalent in my brain. Yet on some unconscious level, I still have problems with the Flinstones and Popeye!

 

[diaglo]

at 3 or 4 i thought women got pregnant from kissing.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I was born in 1966, and I remember being stunned around age 6 or 7 by finding out people born in the 70's could actually speak.

 

[eabha]

I believed men had to shave their fingernails (this after walking in on a scene that was obviously carefully choreographed by two older cousins).

I was also lead to believe that the following things were poisons (not poisonous, as in they would hurt you, but actual poisons and would kill you if swallowed): toothpaste, the pool of vinegar left on the plate after the fries were gone, and the carrots that had been left in last year's garden until the spring thaw.

EDIT: I was also told I'd be vacationing on the moon by now.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

the pool of vinegar left on the plate after the fries were gone,

That one is true. Vinegar on fries is a bad thing.

 

[BOZ]

I was born in 1966, and I remember being stunned around age 6 or 7 by finding out people born in the 70's could actually speak.

it's not easy, but i try.

 

[sniffles]

When I was small and my mother made pancakes for us, she would cut them up in a certain way. When my sister and I got old enough to cut up our own pancakes, we thought we had to cut them up exactly the same way or we'd get in trouble. I have no idea why we thought that; my mother certainly never indicated anything to that effect.

We also both thought the spine of the Book of Mormon my parents had on a shelf said Book of Moron.

 

[elforcelf]

Fred Flintstone is the Devil!

 

[jgbrowning]

I was very afraid of humanitarians.


joe b.

 

[eabha]

I was very afraid of humanitarians.