Dumbest things you believed as a child?

I thought that really beautiful people from the tv weren't real humans,they were like some sort of cartoon,bc no one could look like that :rotfl2: ( I think I got this idea from watching Charlies Angels lol) I also thought a dragonfly would stitch your lips closed...I was scared of them for years:rotfl:
 
.....that coyotes were waiting outside our ranch gate to attack us

5 years old needed stiches right above my right eye...went to a country dr up against the Joshua Tree national monument ...I was screaming...dad says.. keep that up, the coyotes will get you outside that door....dad tells the story that I shut up immediately
 

I could never understand why they didn’t just fly a plane up into the clouds and squeeze them to make it rain during a drought.
That can be done to some degree, although the "squeezing" isn't quite just pressing on the clouds. Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, they seeded the clouds beforehand in an attempt to reduce the possibility of rains during the events. It might have averted rain that would have fallen on the opening ceremonies.
 
I thought that back in the 'olden days' when TV was only in black and white, that real life was in black and white, too.

Don't know why my reply didn't post.
Anyway I was like that too and I believed when color was introduced in movies and shows that the world was introduced to color!
 
Well...when I was really young I thought that babies were made by God sprinkling seeds down from heaven and they landed on ladies' heads to make them pregnant. And he had girl seeds in 1 jar and boy seeds in another jar. I proudly told that to my mom when I was like 5. I was kinda close.

I refused to eat mashed potatoes for a while because my Mom told me that God planted a seed in a woman's belly that grew into a baby and the only way I could figure out that it got there was by eating something you didn't chew so it had to be in the mashed potatoes since God wouldn't be mean enough to put it in Ice Cream. This led to a huge fight at the dinner table and my Dad laughing so hard he was crying!
 
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Some older kids, maybe the summer camp counselor, told me that if you didn’t look straight at the big eyeball at the end of Adventure Through Inner Space at Disneyland, you would remain tiny and not be restored to full size. I used to be very nervous about missing my chance to stare at the eye at the end of this ride!! :rotfl2:

(I can’t believe I’m the first with a Disney-related memory...)
 
When I swallowed a cherry whole with the seed a cherry tree would grow inside me until it sprouted leaves. After hearing that I swallowed the cherry whole. I was probably four.

Fast forward a few years. I repeatedly ordered Sea Monkeys and thought they would look like the drawings in the ad. I still want my money back over that one.
 
I grew up in a small town in the 1950's, we had one black girl in our grade, there weren't many black kids in our school just because there weren't a lot of black kids in our town, so I thought they all knew each other and were all related.
 
I heard the word "slut" on tv as a kid, I had no idea what it meant, but knew it was derogatory. My mom took me to get my ID card (military family), and while driving home she asked if I liked how my photo came out. I half-heartily said, "I look like a slut." That sure got a reaction.

When I swallowed a cherry whole with the seed a cherry tree would grow inside me until it sprouted leaves. After hearing that I swallowed the cherry whole. I was probably four.

I thought the same, but it was seeds from a fruit I can't recall.
 
We were going to see a movie, and my dad called the theater to get tickets or showtimes. I honestly thought he was calling the people who made the movie! It was Empire Strikes Back and I wanted to talk to George Lucas, who was obviously on the phone counting tickets. :chewy:

My family and extended family had a gathering at some Lion's Club community center. Down in the basement was an office, and near the opening was a rusty trashcan with an Underwood red devil logo sticker on it. My cousins and I were scared to go down there because we knew it was the Devil's office! 🔥🖇📎

PS- years later after I felt silly about the whole thing, I opened my mail and discovered that I received an invoice....from HELL! Ha, j/k
 
I grew up believing I was adopted…

When I was very young, my parents had cattle on my grandparents farm and we would drive from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to southern Oklahoma every weekend to help with the cattle.

We would drive through Denison, TX every Friday evening and my older brother would point out this little dive bar called “Joe’s Place” and tell me that’s where his parents found me, in the trash pile. Someone had thrown me away, I was just sitting there with all the trash, and his parents decided to pick me up.

Everyone in our family had brown hair and brown eyes, I have red hair and green eyes. I am a generic nominally. He that fact to push his agenda.

I didn’t want to believe his story, but I finally I asked my mother if it was true. My mother, a very sarcastic person, said yeah, sure. You’re adopted.

Well, I was really shocked and sad that someone would just throw me away. I pondered it for a while and decided that my parents had chosen me, loved me and wanted me. They were just stuck with my brother.

Years later when I was about 12, my mother and I were having a conversation with a group of people and the subject of adoption came up. Well I was happy to share that I had been adopted!

The look on my mothers face with utter confusion and then the truth came out…
 
that the truck that drove through the neighborhood every afternoon with the carnival like music blaring from it that attracted kids to buy from it-was selling fish :crazy2: (blame my mom-she always had popsicles and ice cream bars in the freezer and didn't want us asking to buy for the higher price from what i later learned was 'the ice cream man').

this one is a favorite an old schoolmate shared decades ago-

that when a daddy HAS to work the 'graveyard shift' he's being punished by having to do his job, whatever it is, at night alone in a scary graveyard. when daddy GETS to work the 'swing shift' it means he's been good at work and gets to do his work on a playground and take breaks to play on the swings:rotfl::rotfl:
 
Back in the early days of wind up Television, I watched a travel documentary on television. I was about 8 or 9 at the time. The programs was about Italy and at one point they took us to a spaghetti farm. There it was, these long stringy things hanging from trees. The harvested them and brought them out on a big blanket to be under the sun and dry to the solid state that we bought our spaghetti in. My family made fun of me every time I told the story because I stubbornly insisted that I was right because I watched it on TV. I was eventually vindicated just about 20 years ago when there was a TV special that presented shows that were just a practical joke type thing. Like War of the Worlds, but a lot less scary. Anyway, I was finally able to have a witness about what I saw and believed all those years. I don't suppose it is a big deal to fool a 9 year old, but it was so good to find out that I hadn't lost my mind and that I had actually seen it on TV.
 
We were told by a nun in our Holy Communion prep class that chewing the Communion wafer would make Jesus cry. We were to hold it on our tongues until it dissolved. Those things do not dissolve easily, there isn't enough spit in the world. I spent a few years trying, though.

We were also told not to chew it in First Communion prep and I still don't. Apparently it's ok to chew it now, but old habits die hard.
 

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