Childish Misconceptions

[nonnymouse]

The funniest one that I know is from my daughter (yes, I am old!) who visited a fire dept one day on a field trip when she was in kindergarten. The firefighters gave her a "child find" sticker to put on her window. We put it there diligently, telling her that if something happened, the firemen would know to get her first. She cried for days, telling us that she didn't want to have a fire. We reassured her constantly, telling her that it was okay and IF the firemen came, they would get her first. As it turned out, she thought they would "get her" and set her on fire first. Geez - she was sure we were setting her up! My semantics have become more stable over the years ...

 

[MidNite]

 

[megan4777]

As a child I thought that if you were pulled over you were "under arrested." Mom was driving us to our aunt's one day and was pulled over due to an expired inpection sticker. The whole time mom was talking to officer my brother (I think I was 3 and he was 2) and I were screaming, "Are you underarresting our mom?!!??!!? Don't do it!!"
She was embarassed but got off without a ticket b/c she NEVER had the car (dad took it to work) and b/c her toddlers were screaming in the back seat.

I also thought EVERYTHING in the world had feelings. I'm not exaggerating. I thought that stuffed animals, dolls, dust bunnies, thread, hair...etc. Everything had feelings. I was so upset if something got stepped on by someone I knew.

 

[tink2020]

bump!

 

[Airplane dis freak]

to: wish i lived in Fl
that's funny
was cousin really annoying?

 

[MidNite]

My 3 year old son provided me with one this past week. We drove past a water tower. Previously I've explained they store water in it. He was talking to his sister about it as we drove past. He explained to her that that was where all the rain came from.

 

[the kabuki]

Used to think that windshield wipers that were intermitnent(sp?) actually had sensors on the windows that sensed how much water was on the windshield and then made the wipers go across when too much water was on them

 

[goofygirl]

I remember when I was little, I said something like, "My doll died. Can I have a new one?" Of course, I was told "Dolls don't die, silly!"

I also didn't know the weather involved all kinds of scientific data, etc, so when I saw the weather people on the news give the forecast I just thought they were guessing. (Oh wait....I STILL think that!)

 

[goofygirl]

also, I thought Altzheimer's Disease was "Old Timers Disease"!

 

[S. C.]

Love this thread. These are great.

 

[Steamboat Marti]

I was absolutely convinced that when I turned the radio off, the same song would be on when I turned the radio on. It wasn't until years later that my brother explained the difference between a tape player and the radio!

 

[Stuey]

You had to turn off the tv when someone was vaccuming in front of it or they would suck out all the color and you would be stuck with a black and white tv!

I have never tested this to see if it was false why risk it.

 

[Virgo10]

I must have been about 8 or 9 when I asked my father why New York had a new mayor. He didn't know what I was talking about so I showed him an article I read about .........

Metro Goldwyn Mayor (Mayer) of New York. I wanted to know who that Metro Goldwyn guy was.

I use to think that overweight people could lose weight if they just stuck a pin in themselves and deflated. On a personal level now, I wish that worked.

 

[Virgo10]

One more...

There was a large power plant near where I lived as a child. It used coal back then and had an enormous shute in the front where the coal was taken up to the boilers. My father told me that the shute was used to send annoying salesmen out of the building and down into the coal pile.

I believed this until I was about 10 or so.

 

[MidNite]

I must have been about 8 or 9 when I asked my father why New York had a new mayor. He didn't know what I was talking about so I showed him an article I read about .........

Metro Goldwyn Mayor (Mayer) of New York. I wanted to know who that Metro Goldwyn guy was.

I use to think that overweight people could lose weight if they just stuck a pin in themselves and deflated. On a personal level now, I wish that worked.

If only!

 

[heart4pooh]

When I was about 7 I asked my mom for something and she said I couldn't have it because she was broke. I walked away all nervous, wondering how I could fix my mom. I went to a trusted grandmotherly neighbor and asked her how she thought I could fix my mom. She asked what was wrong with her and I told her I wasn't sure but that she was broke. She immediately called my mom and told her...
When my 18 yr old red headed son was 4, in preschool, he got into the car when I picked him up and started crying. I asked him what was wrong, and he said he wanted his black hair back from grandpa. I didn't know what he was talking about at first. Then realized that whenever anybody asked where did you get the red hair, we said from grandpa. But it was from his father's dad, whom he had never met!!!! That one still makes me giggle.