childish notions

[WayneLigon]

I thought for a short time that if I turned the TV off, went away and did something else, then came back and turned it on that it would pick up where it left off.

I was convinced birds could speack English, just that they purposefully didn't to exclude us.

I was told that hummingbirds were giant bees that could kill with a touch.

I was told that flies laid their eggs in you if they landed on you even for a millisecond.

 

[eabha]

When I was in grade two I had a heated discussion with a first grader who didn't think second grade existed. He was convinced that everyone in our primary school was in first grade and would be leaving school forever at the end of the year. Ha.

 

[Rel]

My 4 year old daughter is under the crazy impression that these bronze statues of children playing in the park are actual children who were dipped in bronze because they disobeyed their parents.

It's probably because I tell her that every time we go there.

 

[BOZ]

I was very afraid of humanitarians.

hey joe, you should come over sometime - i got a nice new hot tub. it's big, round, and black (like a cookpot, almost!), and the water might be a bit too hot, but you can much on the nice vegetables in the tub while you cook... i mean, relax...

 

[EricNoah]

Before I knew otherwise, I believed our bodies were filled with "guts." Not just the belly area, but all over. And "guts" were just kind of vague, peanut-shaped blobs of bloody flesh. No organs, just "guts."

 

[diaglo]

when i came to the states and had the first drill at school i thought the world was gonna end in a big bang.

we climbed under our desks to avoid the "Fallout"

from the age of 5 until ... well heck i still think it.

 

[der_kluge]

Eric, that's ok - the Flintstones and Popeye both really suck. So they are obviously creations of the devil.


The only funny thing like this I can think of as a child was one day we were riding home in the car, and my Dad had bought some sort of funnel. I fished it out of the bag and was blowing on it like a trumpet. Afterwards, I said that I'd given it a blow job. I'm surprised my Dad didn't wreck the car! Don't know where I learned that word, but apparently had heard it somewhere.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I thought for a short time that if I turned the TV off, went away and did something else, then came back and turned it on that it would pick up where it left off.

I thought the same thing but with the radio.

 

[fuindordm]

Watching my parents drive, I thought for a long time that the blinkers were telling them where to go. After all, they went on before they started a turn. I always wondered how they knew where we were going...

Ben

 

[Jonny Nexus]

I used to think that people who took the foil lids of milk bottles rather than carefully piercing two holes in them were stupid moral degenerates. (This was because my dad insisted on doing this, and got incredibly upset if someone else got to the milk first and took the lid off).

I also thought that people who drove forward into parking spaces instead of reversing were stupid moral degenerates, again because of my father's influence.

Which made it very confusing to my little five-year old brain when we went to stay with my maternal grandfather, because he both took the lids off of milk bottles and drove forward into parking spaces.