Childish Misconceptions

[Rutt and Tuke]

Gilda Radner.

Did she think/say that, too? I'm guess I'm not the only one who couldn't understand. :lol:

 

[mbw12]

I used to get sick to my stomach as a child about my parents running out of gas when we would go for a drive. I remember peering over my fathers shoulders (yes, there were no child safety seats or seat belt wearing, back in those days!!!) and asking if he had enough gas. I thought if you had 17 gallons of gas.....you could only drive 17 miles!

 

[JVL1018]

When I was little, I thought there were little people living in tapes singing.

I also thought everyone got the same amount of time to live.
My best friend when I was little was born Dec 13. I was born Sept 26(same year)..we were very confident that I would die and then he would die 2 and a half months later.
I don't know what we thought the age was, but I figured it was nice and orderly like that. LOL

When my Mom used to go to bridal or baby showers I thought all these ladies went to some locker room and showered. I pictured them all in their shower caps.

 

[Pollito916]

I can't think of any personal ones right now (possibly denial), but I have some family ones:

When my little sis and I were 7 & 8, I convinced her that she was an alien, from the planet Jupiter. Not only did she believe this, she made up a whole life she had on Jupiter, with alien sports games of "food ball" where the bases are planets and they have to fly around them catching food in their mouths. The best was when my mom took us to her work, and introduced us to her co-workers as her daughter. My sister with a completely serious face said, "No. My name is not Lisa. It's Monstersquad Alien, and I'm from Jupiter."

When one of my cousins was 4 years old, he said a naught word, and was told by his parents that those words are for big people and he can say them when he's big. So he climbed onto the kitchen table and yelled, "S***! S***! S***!" with a big smile on his face.

 

[arminnie]

My sister's though is better. Her's was uhhh corrected last summer (she was 13). She thought Viagra was for constipation. Even better she announced this as we were driving back to the hotel from dinner on a vacation. Stepdad nearly drove off the road

My dad (age 84) came home from seeing a new female doctor a couple of months ago and showed me the samples she had given him. He kept saying "I don't know why she gave this to me."

It took a couple of days of his making remarks about the new prescriptions when I finally figured out what was bothering him. The prescription was for ALLEGRA, and he confused it with Viagra. I think he was too embarrassed to ask this new woman doctor why she had prescribed it.

 

[Wish I lived in Fl]

DS was an only child and lonely. So when i told him that i was going to a baby shower he aked "Could we get one?"

Ten years later he has a 2 yr old sister. We are visiting SIL,BIL and their only child Alanna. I asked DS if he was glad he had a sister and he said no. Then i asked did he think Alanna should have a brother or sister.,he vehemnently(sp) said yes. when asked why he said,"So she can suffer like i do"

 

[Pollito916]

DS was an only child and lonely. So when i told him that i was going to a baby shower he aked "Could we get one?"

My nephew wanted to go to Babies 'R Us one day to "buy" a baby brother!

My friend's little brother was very upset one day that we couldn't eat lunch at Car-X. He thought it was unfair the girls always get to choose boring restaurants, and he wanted to eat with the cars!

 

[Caradana]

I remember abject panic over the fear that my brain might run out of paper to write stuff down. I mean, if it wasn't written down in my brain, how was I remembering it? I was 5 or 6 at the time.

I also remember wondering what people did before toothpaste was invented.

 

[ladyv]

I used to think that thunder was a mouse rolling a big wheel of cheese on top of the sky. Not a pretend mouse. A real mouse. And a real wheel of holey cheese.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

When I was little and would go to church and hear how strongly they felt against euthanasia, I wondered what they had against young kids in Asia.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I used to think that thunder was a mouse rolling a big wheel of cheese on top of the sky. Not a pretend mouse. A real mouse. And a real wheel of holey cheese.

I used to think God was bowling--when it was really really loud--he was getting strikes.

 

[Angelrose]

I remember being very young, maybe 4 or 5, and telling my dad while we were driving that there was a big hole in the road. He kept saying where? I kept saying a big hole. LOL It turns out we were on a hill and I couldn't see the cars on the other side and I thought they were being sucked into a big hole.

 

[Aurora63]

You all reminded me of some others.

When I was little, I was convinced that my teddy bears were alive, and that the minute I fell asleep or stepped out of the room, they would come to life and stary talking, dancing, whatever. And whenever you came back, they would immediately get back to wherever they were left. So I would line them up along the wall on the bed, and speak very seriously with them, "I know you're alive. You can stop pretending." etc.

I also thought that my family would never run out of money, because of stores. You know, because whenever you went to the store and bought something, they gave you money back.

My sister said something cute along these lines. She was at school, and sick. The nurse put her on the phone to talk to our dad when she got him. Later that night, my dad told her that she sounded big on the phone. My sister says, "Oh, that's cause I was standing on a chair." They still talk about that to this day.

 

[slo]

I believed that if I ate a watermelon seed, then a watermelon would actually grow in my stomach.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

My nephew wanted to go to Babies 'R Us one day to "buy" a baby brother!

My friend's little brother was very upset one day that we couldn't eat lunch at Car-X. He thought it was unfair the girls always get to choose boring restaurants, and he wanted to eat with the cars!

My DS was 2 when DD was born. For YEARS, everytime we passed the hospital she was born at, DS would announce "There's the hospital we got ______ from!"

 

[MidNite]

Did she think/say that, too? I'm guess I'm not the only one who couldn't understand. :lol:

Yeah, when she did Roseanne Rosanna-Dana she'd go off on subjects in the news. That was one of them lol. She didn't understand why Youth In Asia was bad. Then someone would correct her, and she'd smile and say "Nevermind".

 

[bizybea]

When I was little I used to think that the ticket you got at a toll both weighed the car you were in and then charged you based on the weight!

 

[MidNite]

Thought of another one!

My sister's name is Debbie. So again, when I was around 3 (interesting time of life), my brother and sister would tell me that SHE made Little Debbies. I never could figure out how she did it all be herself.

 

[WithDisneySpirit]

I was Catholic when I was little and I remember preparing for my first Holy Communion. I had always thought that the bread communion wafer was made out of the the cream filling from Oreo cookies; it was white, and about the same size.

Much to my disgust, I found out they were thin, papery, flavorless discs that disintegrated slimily in your mouth. Yuck!

I read this to my DS16 and he wanted to add this to your post:

When he had First Communion, he was sure that the wine, being the "blood of Christ" would taste really good so he took a big gulp and then almost choked

 

[Nancy]

I used to think that you had to have your birthday on the same day to be married (because my parents were born on the same day, just different years) So when my friends told me it was their Dad's birthday I was telling them "well it's your Mom's too" they told me no it wasn't their Mom's birthday, so I informed them that their parents weren't married then becuase to be married you HAD to be born on the same day. Boy did that start a big fight!

My 2 oldest DD's used to terrorize my youngest. She had a barbie type doll named Janet. They told her that Janet came alive at night and she would get into her bed and try to eat her hair (why just her hair I have no idea) They had bunk beds so the 2 of them would be in the bottom bunk whispering Janet doll over and over. Poor baby slept with her hands on her head for weeks until I found out why. Another thing they did was convince her that when you flush a toilet a big monster comes up so you have to get away from the toilet really fast. This was another occasion when it took me awhile to find out why she litterly ran full speed from the bathroom and didn't go back in to wash her hands until the toilet stopped running. I had to stay in there with her and flush the toilet repeatedly before she believed me that no monster would come up.