What were your assumptions about the world as a child?

[Spinneret]

I thought being rested as in sport star rested meant arrested

 

[citruscurtis]

So like Garp's toad waiting under water at Ocean surf to drown him????

As a child living in the California Mojave desert wilderness... every thing wanted to kill me for dinner

 

[citruscurtis]

...that smoking and drinking beer made you very poor....as we where the only children sitting in the 1960s California taverns

 

[citruscurtis]

If vehicles and assorted cartoon characters went off cliffs... eventually you will also

 

[barkley]

not my assumption but a childhood friend thought that when her dad worked 'swing shift' it meant he had been 'good' at work and got to work on a playground with swings but if he misbehaved he had to work 'graves' and was assigned to work in the cemetary (in her defense-her dad worked at the navel shipyard which had neighborhoods with parks and swings as well as at least one military cemetary).

 

[jalapeno_pretzel]

As a young kid through about middle school time frame, I always thought it was amazing that I was born AFTER all the wars had taken place and was so lucky to live in a peaceful world that would forever and always be peaceful. Though somehow at the same time I was also pretty worried about potential nuclear war with the USSR.

 

[TCRAIG]

As a kid - I always wondered why ‘they’ didn’t just fly up and squeeze the clouds to make it rain during a draught.

 

[Jahianter]

Oh man, I totally thought adults had everything figured out. Like, they just knew what to do. Also, I thought money just magically appeared from ATMs—like, no big deal.

 

[Cadiewampus]

That when I grew up that no one could boss me around and I could do anything anytime I wanted