Stupid Little Things You Believed in as a Child

[petergriffin246]

Ok well I saw this on another forum and it made me crack up. Just name silly things u believed in as a child such as "I used to think penguins were 7 feet tall and fed on human flesh". My stupid that i believed in was that I used to thing to have sex a man had to pee in a females vagina. Disturbing I know.

[JBond]

Human decency, societal progress, love.

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[Necross]

Jeez. There goes my soul, you bastard. I'm off to kill kittens with nails now.

Something I believed was a little more specific. I used to live in this apartment next to this older couple. Well for some reason they used to tell me a skeleton named Charlie lived up in the attic, they even "showed me a picture of him." I was never scared or anything but I look back on it now and wonder what the hell was wrong with them. Or for my parents who knew they used to tell me this.

[JBond]

I remember seeing coupons as a kid that said "Save 35 cents!" or whatever, and thinking that it meant that you have to give them all the money you had on you except for 35 cents...you save 35 cents.

[petergriffin246]

^lol

[Drizzt240]

There's a telescope observatory at the top of a hill I can see from my house. I used to think it was a giant golf ball and on top of that I thought it was the giant golf ball at Disney World.
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/florida/images/s/florida-disney-world-epcot-center.jpg

[Ashift30]

OK... I Confess!!!!

When I was little, I was afraid to go down the "condiment" isle at the grocery store because I thought they had birth control devices on them.

I WAS SLIGHTLY CONFUSED BETWEEN CONDIMENTS AND CONDOMS!

There....now you know. I was an average dweeb 6th grader growing up in the 60's and 70's.

[petergriffin246]

why would u want birth control at age 11?

[Ewok Droppings]

I used to believe that Dan Reeves would somehow pull together a decent game plan every time the Broncos went to the SB in the 80's. I kept thinking "this year he's gonna get it right!". Nope - never happened for Reeves.

[JBond]

why would u want birth control at age 11?

Because it was the 60's.

[Boro]

Human decency, societal progress, love.

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[Dhamon22]

My older cousin tricked me into believing he was a robot from another planet sent to earth to look over me. He said his spaceship was in the ball pit at DZ Zone and he needed to take my toys back to his ship to analyze them and make sure they weren't hazardous. It was very elaborate and very weird. I can't believe I believed it.... but in my defense, I was 8.

[Ramplate]

Brownies were going to come out of the forest and kidnap me
http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC063585/brownpic.jpg
I read in the encyclopedia that they kidnapped little kids

[Fanible]

When I was real young I thought that "Orion's Belt" was just his belt buckle, and that he was actually huge and his whole body spread across the sky.

[Brock Landers]

When I was little I thought the Moon was following our car, like it was gaining on us when we were driving.

[JBond]

I recall being confused about the moon as a little kid, but nothing as concrete as that.

[Necross]

When I was little I thought the Moon was following our car, like it was gaining on us when we were driving.

Lol I remember when I was little watching it do that. Like I knew it wasn't but it was cool to watch it and think it was.

I also remember that I believed my mother when she told me my kitten Fireball (he was black and white, and I was about 5 or 6 so thats why he was named Fireball) ran away. And then again when my next cat Milo ran away.....the witch gave em away like she does all her pets.

[Brock Landers]

I recall being confused about the moon as a little kid, but nothing as concrete as that.

I had one hell of an imagination back then.

[Carnage Escobar]

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[Angelixx]

i used to believe that E.T. was gonna kill me in my sleep.

every night.

k that actually hasn't changed much.

[Ashift30]

why would u want birth control at age 11?

Didn't want it, just afraid someone would see me on the aisle and think I was looking for it.

[Tolkien]

I used to believe that my happy little life would last forever, Santa would always bring me gifts, jesus would always answer my prayers if I was good, money would never run out, my mother would always protect me and my friends would never leave me. Talk about a silly imagination.

[Steve from Indy]

I remember believing that if I didn't wash between my toes, that I would end up with webbed feet. I guess I believed that because I have a cousin that a couple of webbed toes as a kid. Lord knows what other silly things I believed. I'm too old to remember them, but I'm sure I had plenty of them.

[Where's my elephant?]

I was 3 years old when that "Magic" video by The Cars came out and well...I believed that someone could walk on water.

Then I grew up and became familiar with the term "special effects." It was a good childhood while it lasted. LOL

[MasterChief117]

Well, when I was lil kid(Oh, I can see it now when I tell this story to my grandchildren). When I was little, I watched Batman(Michael Keatons and Jack Nicholsons) and I remember being terrified of Joker, I could never go to dark spots because I thought Joker would get me. (It also doesn't help i'm terrified of DAMN clowns.) Not to mention I had a Batman spread with Batman and Joker on it. Lol.

[MasterChief117]

Because it was the 60's.

Wow, Didn't know they made that stuff back in the early A.D.'s(Okay, that was just mean.)

[Bullets]

I used to think growing up was worth it .

[Knerys]

Human decency, societal progress, love.

Well aren't you just a big ray of sunshine! :p




Because both my parents was army we moved alot, and I used to believe that everyone moved every couple years. I was shocked when I met people who had lived in one place there whole lives.

I also got really confused by actors in movies playing different characters. I knew that the movie weren't real but I thought the character were and that they lived that life all the time(yes weird).

[IamMrDJ]

So there was a couple of things stupid things I believed in that still stick out in my mind.

First there was an Air Force Base about 5 miles from my house and the radar towers looked like giant golf balls. In Kindergarten we would all point them out to one another and say that one of our fathers hit the golf ball so far it got buried and grew to be the giant golf ball.

Second, when I was 5 (yes 5) I was put in handcuffs, put in the back of a cop car and charged with arson because an older neighbor brought me along to play with matches and ended up burning an entire backyard to a crisp. Well as a punishment I had to go to a scared straight type fire prevention class. This class did its job and scared the crap out of me. Looking back now I realize that it was not all true but it still made me afraid of starting fires. For the next year and a half to two years I was afraid of placing a broken pencil in the trash together because I thought the two pieces would rub together and start a fire.

[Knerys]

For the next year and a half to two years I was afraid of placing a broken pencil in the trash together because I thought the two pieces would rub together and start a fire.
I miss that kind of disiplinary action. ;)

[IamMrDJ]

I miss that kind of disiplinary action. ;)

I miss that my brother did not have to go through the same type of discipline I did. Being a first born has a lot of drawbacks.

[Knerys]

Haha no kidding. Even though....my sister never really bought into "learning by example"...

[IamMrDJ]

Haha no kidding. Even though....my sister never really bought into "learning by example"...

My brother did not either. That is why he never went to college for more then a semester and became a father by the age of 21.

[Knerys]

Well my sister isn't that bad! Still has real trouble understanding age difference though....

[JBond]

I also got really confused by actors in movies playing different characters. I knew that the movie weren't real but I thought the character were and that they lived that life all the time(yes weird).

Ohhh, that reminds me.

When I was little, probably about the time "Licence to Kill" came out (I was 7), my dad helped me get into the James Bond movies, so we rented and watched all of those eventually. I got to know this "Sean Connery" was one of the James Bond's, but I didn't realize he was the same Sean Connery that had the white beard in the present, the one in Last Crusade and such. It was at least a year or so before I realized they were the same person.

It just didn't make sense to me that this popular actor was also JAMES BOND when he was younger.

[ZombieMan]

Well, I have a few things here that are pretty messed up!!!

First off, there was this old scary cat lady that lived not far from my house. If I was really bad, my parents would threaten to take me to her house, and told me that she was a witch. It seriously worked and made me be good, haha!!! When that old lady died, they had to find a new method to control my ass, haha!!!

The first time that my mom took me to a church sermon. I mistook the word "preacher" for "creature". When I asked what we were doing, I could have sworn that she said, "We are going to listen to the creature". I sat in the pew in anticipation, but kind of felt scared, I remember. Some lady was playing the piano, and I was imagining this little green alien thing that would come up there on the stand and start playing music or something. When nothing exciting happened, I leaned over and asked mom, "Hey, where is the creature"? She laughed and was like NOOOO, PREACHER, he's the guy talking about God. Yeah, then I was mad to have to sit through the borefest. LOL

[Jason Krueger]

I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun.

[JBond]

I used to believe that I was allergic to the sun.

Holy ****, I thought that for YEARS.

[Necross]

I used to believe that television shows only happened when I turned on the tv.

[halo7]

I often wondered how the VCR knew when I wanted to watch a movie. I use to think putting the tape in was simply turning it on, and then it just somehow turned the TV to a station playing the movie.

[KUsubaruchick]

I was a pretty dumb kid, so Im sure I have a bunch of these stories stacked up in my head just waiting to come out..... one I can think of off the top of my head is about one year when my friend and I, and our dads all went trick-or-treating together. Our dads stopped at someones house, but Michele and I wanted more candy, so we decide to keep on moving. I guess our parents were looking for us for a few hours, and my dad was pretty hacked off at me for moving on without him. He told me that if I ever did that again that the boogie man would come and chop off my arms and legs and eat them.

My brother also gives me a hard time about how when I was younger I didn't understand how the nintendo worked, and every game was called a "nintendo"..... to me, the name was for everything, game and system, apparently.

[Fanible]

Holy ****, I thought that for YEARS.

Don't you still?

[Ramplate]

heh, when my mom and aunt were little, my great grandfather told them that if you put salt on a bird's tail it would be completely unable to fly away - so all day long my mom and her sister tried to sneak up on wild birds with a salt shaker :lol:

[Deexan]

When i was 7 or so there was a theme park not far from my home town called The American Adventure that featured a ride called Missile and i was convinced that it took off like a space shuttle and took the people on it into orbit for a couple of hours before landing again. I used to always look towards the horizon whenever we were heading there or going back home to see if i could catch a glimpse of it taking off...

[ZombieMan]

This stuff reminds me of Bobby's World. Who remembers that cartoon?! HA!!!

[Knerys]

I loved that show. I miss good cartoons like that.

[JBond]

Don't you still?

No :rolleyes: Not since Jason said he believed in it, too.

[Fanible]

Does that mean soon we're not going to see you on here as much. :confused:

[Andrey83]

Human decency, societal progress, love.

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