My child used to believe......

[Disneyland1084]

I'm 30, but when I was 5 my family was driving to Disneyland. My mom was drinking 7up and told my dad (who was driving) "Here, you finish it." I freaked out and said "NO DAD, DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE."

 

[luvthatduke]

It's late but I'll play.

I found out a while ago that both my DH & I
believed that each song played on the radio
was live from that station - that the band
had to be there to play the song.
I think I finally got a clue when I switched stations
only to hear the same song being played

I think this is cute:
When DH was little whenever his dad drove
into a service station (remember when we called them that?),
his dad would call out, "Hey, Chief!"
For the longest time my DH thought that there
was a man called "Chief" at every service station

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

I'm originally from a small town in western Pennsylvania. We used to drive to Wheeling to see Christmas lights, and we would drive past a town called Bethlehem. I would always see the exit sign and think that was where Jesus was born. Yep, my world was pretty small when I was little.

 

[torinsmom]

My grandpa used to tell me if I swallowed gum my "insides" would stick together and I NEVER swallowed it!

There was also the time that my sister and brother love to kid me about. My sister was driving already, so I had to be 12 or so. My parents drove one car to church and she and my brother went in the other. They both thought I was in the other car and it took them until after Sunday School to figure out I had been left at home. Our church had just watched a movie called "Left Behind"(an older version that was really creepy) about the Rapture. When I discovered everyone was gone, I thought I had REALLY been left behind and I was crying when they finally came back for me. That's one reason I never read the newer Left Behind series.

 

[threecrazykids]

When I was little I used to pull my long hair into my mouth and chew on it. I also used to bite my fingernails. My Grandpa told me "stop doing that or you're gonna get worms". Stopped doing that REAL quick once he told me that.

My parents also told me that if I swallowed a piece of gum it would take 7 years to digest.

 

[padams]

When I was a really little kid, I thought that there were "egg eggs" (eggs that you scramble, fry, etc.) and "chicken eggs" (eggs that grew into chickens). After my parents insisted to me that there's only one kind of egg, I didn't eat eggs for years. I also was then afraid that any egg I cracked open might be a semi-developed chicken.

 

[Explodo]

DD(6) has discovered that Eating "Smarties" helps her read.

When I was little (1st grade) I thought all humans only lived one year (This belief only lasted for about 8 months)...The Month of December was a tough month for me that year...My Mom still recalls me being very philosophical during the last couple of months of my life. So when I woke up on January 1st and was still converting Oxygen into CO2, I was stunned and very happy.

 

[PrincessDana]

I remember seeing signs in the Post Office window for "money orders $0.89). I truly thought that was all you had to pay for the money order (not the value of the money order PLUS the .89). I remember sitting in the back of the car wondering why we didn't just get a bunch of money order for all our bills and we would have had a ton of money left over. Why would anyone use checks?

I also grew up very near a time-zone line. We frequently shopped in a town that was on Eastern time and we lived in Central time. I truly thought that EVERY moderate-sized town had a different time than we did. So I was constantly asking, what time is it there??

I also thought that "passionate" kissing was something that was done only on TV. That people in real life didn't kiss like that. LOL

My daughter for YEARS thought that "fish sticks" were made of chicken. Even though we called them "fish stick." She was appalled when she finally found out they were made of minced fish. She "hates" fish. lol

 

[Mickey527]

When my youngest was about 4 he thought there was a man who ran down the road every night turning the switch for each streetlight, then had to reverse in the morning to turn them off. He felt sorry for the guy who was assigned to I-95 because he had to run to FL every day and never got a chance to visit because then he had to run back to CT.
He also thought that in the "olden days" when mom was a kid that we had dinosaur teeth for money and the rich kids had sharks because the sharks had lost of rows of teeth.

 

[SaraJayne]

Remember when you called a number for a recording of the current time and temperature? I used to believe there was a woman who answered the phone and called her often because I didn't want her to be lonely. I mean who in their right mind would call for that information when a house had a clock and a thermometer?

We actually did get a live person.

 

[SingingMUA]

Cute thread!

When I was little, I believed that nail polish and lipstick only came in ONE color... Red. When I was little, my mom typically only wore nail polish and lipstick that was in the red family, so in my mind, that's the only color that they came in. Imagine my surprise when I realized that there was more than one color available.

I also used to think that reality was TV when I was little. Just as we would watch TV shows on TV, that MY life was playing out on someone's TV somewhere as a show.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I'm originally from a small town in western Pennsylvania. We used to drive to Wheeling to see Christmas lights, and we would drive past a town called Bethlehem. I would always see the exit sign and think that was where Jesus was born. Yep, my world was pretty small when I was little.

When I lived in PA, in 3rd grade, my teacher was named Mrs. Hatch.

We were learning about the colonies or something about the states--and we were learning about Maryland.

She told us that her first name was Mary and when she was littled, she believed that state was for her: Mary('s) land.

We all thought she was silly for thinking that. (says the woman who has a girl thought color had to be invented.)

 

[design_mom]

Remember when you called a number for a recording of the current time and temperature? I used to believe there was a woman who answered the phone and called her often because I didn't want her to be lonely. I mean who in their right mind would call for that information when a house had a clock and a thermometer?

I worked Directory Assistance (a.k.a. "Information" or 4-1-1) for a very short time. I was *shocked* by the number of people who called and asked the time. I wondered if people realized it cost them 40¢ for me to look at the clock and say, "It's 11:14 a.m., sir."

I also had one kid call and ask if this was the number he needed to call to get on the TV show, Disney 4-1-1. Um, no.

 

[Aisling]

When my son was little, he thought hotdogs were made of tasty clay.

When I was little, I thought babies were born with clothes on!

 

[EveDallas]

When I was a really little kid, I thought that there were "egg eggs" (eggs that you scramble, fry, etc.) and "chicken eggs" (eggs that grew into chickens). After my parents insisted to me that there's only one kind of egg, I didn't eat eggs for years. I also was then afraid that any egg I cracked open might be a semi-developed chicken.

LOL! I thought this too! I refused to eat eggs for the longest time.

When I was about 4 or 5, there was a commercial for Hall's cough drops. It showed a woman eating a cough drops and then added in vapors in front of her face to show the 'menthol action'. I would not take those drops for years for fear of being blinded by the smoke

 

[Nennie]

I remember driving in the car with my dad one time, and we got lost. He said something like "Oh no, we're lost." And I started bawling b/c I thought it meant we were lost forever and I'd never get to see my mom again.

My sister used to think "grilled cheese" was called "girl cheese" and that only girls were allowed to eat it. LOL!

 

[Thumper_Man's Wife]

I gotta jump in here and tell my story...

When I was 3 my mom married my step-dad, a year later, she was pregnant with my brother. During the pregnancy, my "step-family", mainly cousins, would go on and on that I was going to have a half-brother. Now, remember I'm 4 years old at this time. I have no understanding of what a half-sibling is. So the day my mom went into labor, my grandpa took me to the hospital to see her and the baby...My first question as we drove there was "The baby is going to be a whole baby right?" Of course my grandpa looked at me funny and told me of course he was...but I was still skeptical, since he was going to be a "half" brother. It wasn't until I actually saw him that I was pleased to know that he was a full baby and not just half of one.

 

[Thumper_Man's Wife]

I remember driving in the car with my dad one time, and we got lost. He said something like "Oh no, we're lost." And I started bawling b/c I thought it meant we were lost forever and I'd never get to see my mom again.

On this note...My mom played a game with me when I was little to sort of keep me occupied once day when I was bored and bugging her. The game..."Go find Heather" (Heather being me of course). So I would search the house from top to bottom trying to find myself, and I would turn up empty handed, running back to my mom, crying hysterically "I'm Lost!!!!!!" Needless to say, we never played that game again.

 

[tmarquez]

We went down to Key West for a weekend getaway and it happened to be gay pride week. We were walking along and the gay pride parade came down the street...DD thought the parade was for her.

 

[thruthelookinglass19]

When I was very young, I used to think that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.

This is too funny!! I was going to post this . . . my brother thought the same thing!!!