childish notions

[Uzumaki]

I remembered another one. I thought that there was a car out there that all the other cars followed, like a huge race. Before the car in First Place, there were no other cars.

 

[eabha]

I went to my first wedding when I was 3 or 4, and after seeing all the groomsmen lined up in their tuxedos, I thought the bride had her choice of husbands and simply picked the one she preferred. The bridesmaids then had to settle for whoever was leftover.

 

[Blue]

When my kids were younger, we watched a lot of videos -- we didn't have cable and there just weren't that many good kid shows on. When we got cable and started letting them watch TV, they couldn't figure out why they couldn't just Pause the shows when they went to the bathroom or while we ate dinner.

This is my daughter. We have a TiVo on one TV, and she just doesn't get the whole concept that shows are on at a specific time. She assumes that the TV will show her the specific show she wants exactly when she wants it. Lots of fun when we go visiting somewhere.

My sister-in-law also has a TiVo, and started keeping an episode of my daughter's favorite show. Good short term solution, but I'm afraid all it's done is reinforce that TVs show what you want and when. The idea of shows on at certain times, and shows starting on the hour and half hour is completely foreign to her.

*shrug*

Cheers,
Blue

 

[ssampier]

I thought I was the only "weird" child.

As a child, I misunderstood male genitalia. I also thought, for some reason, they held urine. I thought that everyone had testes. I rationalized that males had two and women had one, since my father and I could "hold it" a lot longer than my mother.

 

[Rogue765]

My cousin convinced his brother, who was 3 years younger and really annoying, that when boys hit puberty, all their fat turns into muscle. Poor kid . . . all he wanted was to have lots and lots of muscles. . . .

BEEFCAKE!!!

 

[Abstraction]

I remember when I was young there was a freeway (Southfield freeway in Michigan) and that there was a sign that would say "Freeway end in 1/4 Mile" and then we would exit. In reality, the exit we took was the end of the freeway. I imagined that just past the exit we took there was simply a wall and there were all kinds of crashed cars there that hadn't heeded the signs warning. I remember being vaguely scared that we wouldn't exit one day. I don't remember how old I was, but I could read well on my own.

 

[Richards]

I remember being confused as a child as to why we didn't get into trouble when my Dad drove by the "DO NOT PASS" signs on the road. I thought they meant "DO NOT PASS THIS SIGN POSTED HERE."

Johnathan