What's the stupidest thing you ever believed?

[markshaw]

One time my niece and I were going through Chattanooga and she said that she was going to swim across the Tennessee River and I told her she couldn't because there were piranhas in there. I didn't think that she believed me until a couple weeks later when she came home from school and told me that her teacher was talking about the fact that piranhas are only in the Amazon and my niece spoke up and told her "na uh they're in the Tennessee River too because my aunt said so". Oops......I didn't think she believed me.

 

[d.kurz]

I used to believe that if you're at a full stop in a car, and someone crashes into you, their insurance will pay for your damages. HA!

 

[catsrule]

When I was little, about 7 or 8, a friend told me that spirits can come out of the water faucet. So when I took a bath, I stuffed toilet paper up the water spout so they couldn't get me.

 

[Princess_Aurora]

DH had me convinced once that when you flush a toilet on an airplane the waste goes outside and falls from the sky. The only reason you don't notice it is because it evaporates in the atomosphere or something like that. I believed it for quite a while too

He also got me a second time. We were looking at tvs one day and he told me that Toshiba meant a four letter curse word starting with an s in Japaneese. I was believing him too until he burst out laughing

 

[BuzzMe]

It's against the law to remove the tags from pillows, furniture cushions, etc.

 

[adamak]

Santa Claus.
Cellulite cream.
Live happily ever after. *

*Not that I'm complaining about my DH. But boy, marriage is tough! Work is tough! Doing laundry is tough! You never see that in Cinderella the movie.

 

[anniet]

That hard work was all that was needed to get ahead and to be rewarded with life's little necesseties like a nice home..... HAH, not in this market!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lars624]

I'm pretty gullible, but right now nothing is popping in to my mind except one about a high school friend of mine. Just before we started driver's ed she told me that no matter what she couldn't get lost once she started driving because whatever way you're facing is north.

 

[TigH]

That a website I used to work for was going to rake in millions of dollars and one day I would be greatly compensated for all the work I put into it. Yeah, right!

 

[Bob O]

When i was young and naive i actually thought liberals were trying to help people out of tyhere plight.
But of course once i was able to grasp things better i realized the policies only keep the poor in their smae plight as a crass attempt to gather votes form the uneducated and oprah crowd!!

 

[Nikki_Nikki]

As embarrassing as it is to say...
A few years ago (when I was around 18) my parents and I went to visit my uncle who owned a ranch or farm or whatever you call it. Anyways, they all convinced me that brown cows is where chocolate milk came from and white cows is where white milk came from. They kept it going all weekend... I'm still hearing about that one!

 

[supercarrie]

When I was 6 or 7 my brother and now sister-in-law convinced me that Disney stored nuclear weapons at DL. I forget all the details of how they convinced me, but I remember freaking out and crying until my mom came home and told me that what they said wasn't true. I shouldn't even have known what nuclear weapons were at that age, IMO. They also told me that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen and placed inside the statue of him and Mickey at DL.

 

[Tiggerlover91]

THAT YELLOW AND BLUE MAKE GREEN!! Stupid ZIPLOC commercial!!

 

[Pin Wizard]

That school administrators would have the best interest of the kids as the number one priority.

 

[Indyman]

I was once told that women were easy to understand. HAH!!

 

[goofygirl]

That Walt Disney was frozen!


That Clinton "did not have sex with THAT WOMAN." I actually thought HE was telling the truth, and SHE was the liar until this was proven otherwise!

 

[Robinrs]

I used to be an atheist so that tells you how stupid I WAS...

I also used to believe that merit, education and knowledge would make you a successful person... NOT!

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Have you ever seen a painting called "The Man in the Golden Helmet"? I think it's Rembrandt but I'm not sure. Anyhow, my grandpa said it was him in the painting when I was little. When I was about 9 and noticed it in my friend's house as well, I asked her mom why she had a painting of my grandpa!
Robin M.

 

[Kteacher]

These are great! When I was little my older sister told me that Friskies cat food tasted like chocolate ( I can still hear her saying to me- " go ahead, try some " ). I'm still gullible enough to believe all the claims the cosmetic companies make- and I have drawers full of stuff that for some reason didn't make me look like Isabella Rosselini

 

[Spinning]

Spider eggs in Bubble yum...granted I knew it couldn't be true but I quickly stopped chewing it!
Same with pop rocks and soda....remember it is a deadly combo! LOL!