childish notions

[kenobi65]

Did not get the whole Watergate episode explained to me until High School.

OMG, that reminds me...

I was a couple of years older than you, but didn't really understand Watergate at the time, either. One of the first times I overheard the word "Watergate" on the news, they also had a film of a flood on the same newscast. In that film, they showed the flood waters moving through a cyclone fence. So, somehow, my little brain combined the two, and I decided that "Watergate" had something to do with a flood that covered a fence (gate) somewhere....

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

I spent the entire summer after my 3rd grade year recovering from complications due to an appendectomy lying on the couch. We didn't have cable, so all I could watch were the Watergate hearings.

 

[Steve Jung]

The problem is that when I'm listening to news radio, sometimes I'll realize that I've been spacing out and missed something, so I find myself reaching down to rewind the radio before I realize that I can't do that. Need to get me a better radio. Do they make RadiVo?

Here's one product that might fit the bill.

 

[Thotas]

My parents thought that science fiction, horror and fantasy were bad for children's minds. I rejected this idea completely, but one day I was watching an episode of the original "Outer Limits" ... without seeing the intro, mind you, with the "Control Voice". It was an episode called "A Cry of Silence", in which a young couple finds themselves trapped by a hermit and some tumbleweeds that are being mind-controlled by an alien intelligence. While watching it, my parents did their warning about how this material would negatively affect my brain. I ignored them again, loved the show ... and then, a voice from the TV said "We now return control of your television set". I thought (and I'm sure largely because of my parental warnings) that this was a transmission from the same alien controlling the hermit and the tumbleweeds -- and that watching the show would give the alien control over me! From that day forward, I'd watch all the other SF shows and movies, but not the Outer Limits!

 

[amethal]

My father used to listen a lot to Abba.

I knew they were Swedish, so I thought they must be singing in Swedish and that presumably there was some clever device attached to the radio which was translating it into English for us.

 

[Zander]

When I was a kid, I thought that shaving made you smell bad. I came to this conclusion because my father splashed on nice smelling after-shave which I assumed was to mask the bad odour of shaving.

I also thought that in 'olden days' everything was black and white because all the old films and photos were that way.

 

[Zander]

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...

LOL That's classic!

 

[Aeson]

I thought fog was clouds that had not woke up yet.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm struggling to think of some misconception I had as a child, and I'm at a loss. But I am amazed at how naive some of you were in your youth. Amazing stuff!

 

[Aeson]

I'm struggling to think of some misconception I had as a child, and I'm at a loss. But I am amazed at how naive some of you were in your youth. Amazing stuff!

You will come up with something. Every child has misconceptions.