Silly things you believed when you were young

[swanlake]

Korr_and_Sophie wrote:

I used to believe that Pluto was a planet. Boy was I wrong.

:laugh::roflmao:

me too!!

i love how on facebook there are all those groups "when i was a kid,pluto was a planet" poor pluto, never complained, never mischevious. just wanted to be a planet but NO. some stupid scientists had to go and call it a 'junior' planet. :laughsmiley:

 

[GoinBackToCali]

When I was little.. my daddy had me convinced that the big huge round bails of hay in fields... were elephant turds.

Blake had Christian convinced for the longest time that the Toys For Tots campaign at Christmas time were for the Tatertots at Sonic.. cause they get very bored, waiting around to be eaten.

My husband also had me convinced that he hung around with a guy named Bill Flage.. and he kissed his sister, Cammie... yanno... Cammie Flage..

I also thought that since cans came from a cannery... that nuns came from a nunnery..

I also thought that I could blink my mother away..like I Dream of Jeannie... I did it alot.. but it never worked..

I prolly looked like some autistic kid..

 

[Luv-bunniz]

I used to belive that the young, weird looking JT in N'sync wasnt the same as the as the new hot! Jt, instead the N'sync one was a past life:?

My auntie convinced me that mickey mouses ears were made of chocolate...

and, I love this one...I convinced my brothers friend that if you type "google" into google.com that the whole internet would be wiped..she belived it one of them YHTBT moment lol.

 

[kherrmann3]

Will and I have convinced my cousin's son (Robbie) that Will's leg is made of metal. Robbie would always try to lift up Will's leg when he was sitting, and Will would brace one leg so Robbie couldn't lift it. Robbie thinks that one leg is really made of metal. NOW... one day Robbie asked what happened to Will's leg and why it is made of metal. Will and I couldn't think of anything, so we just said "a moose". Yes, a moose bit Will's leg off. Then Will said that Jell-O came out of his leg, not blood. I guess he was trying to keep it "G-rated". In retrospect, we probably just traumatized that poor kid. I just said the moose bit it off, Will made it WEIRD...ER...

 

[NetherlandDwarf]

I had this friend, we were about 23 at the time and a big group of us was headed to Lake Tahoe for New Years Eve. As we started to head up into the mountains, we started to see signs that read "Watch for falling rocks" This sign made my friend very uneasy and he starts telling us this story; When he was growing up, from early on for as long as he could remember, he and his family traveled a lot by car, going through a lot of mountain passes and what nots. Well he asked the question to his parents "What does watch for falling rocks mean?" His parents responded "It's a crazy indian on the loose and his name is "Falling Rocks" & when you see that sign it means he's been spotted in the area and no one has been able to catch him. So they continue telling him how crazy this indian "Falling Rocks" is and that he steals little kids and he trys to hurt people by throwing rocks on top ofthe passing cars. He was terrified hearing this and he told me he would freak out so much when he saw that sign and that he believed this story for well over 10 years! and even to this day he thinks there is some kind of truth to it in some small way. He says even though the story was a lie, seeing that sign to this day gives him the goosebumps still! His parents really traumatized him!

 

[kherrmann3]

NetherlandDwarf wrote:

He parents really traumatized him

... And the "Parent of the Year" award goes to... :dude:

 

[Bassetluv]

LOL...well, my brother certainly wouldn't get brother of the year award. When I started wearing glasses in grade 4, he had me convinced that I was going blind and that I wouldn't be able to see by the time I reached adulthood. And of course, every year when I went for an eye test my eyes were getting worse (they stabilized sometime in my 20s, I think), and I was in tears, believing what my brother had told me. I was too shy to ask the opthalmologist if it was true...:?

Oh, forgot one...when my sister was around 5 or 6 my brother and I some live lobsters from a bag that our dad had brought home and arranged them all around her on the floor. She thought they were hideous and wanted to get away from them, but we told her that they could fly, and that if she moved they would leap up and fly over to her, clinging to her body with their huge claws. She had these big tears in her eyes and wouldn't move an inch...so we left her there and came back maybe 15 minutes later...she still hadn't moved and looked like she was petrified. Guess I wasn't up for sister of the year award either.

P.S. Yep, the family down the street had their problems. The mom was a huge believer in all sorts of strange old wives' tales and she used to treat the children as if they were toddlers even after they'd grown, and the dad - who I only recall seeing ahandful of times - had some sort of mental illness and moved out of the house. He used to show up in the neighborhood every once in a while...he'd be seen lurking in the shadows around his house, watching his family through the windows. The mom wound up severely ill as she got older, and the older sister devoted her life to taking care of her. She - the sister - never married; just stayed at home and took care of her mom, who was bedridden for a great many years. The oldest (and only) brother changed his name and left the province, and the younger sister wound up following in his footsteps a few years later. As odd as the mom was, I felt so badly for both her and her daughter...and the dad too.They were a very sad family.

 

[pinksalamander]

BlueSkyAcresRabbitry wrote:

That boys had cooties

haha. That's a classic. lol.

Emily

In England we call it 'the lurgy'. And anyway, its true, boys do have the lurgy!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[TinysMom]

When I was younger - I believed that good would always win out over evil or 'bad' and that bad things wouldn't happen to you if you were good. It isn't that anyone "taught" me that - it was just what I very naively believed for some strange reason.

 

[Becknutt]

I'm sure I had some odd beliefs as a child, I can't think of any off hand...

but my 13 year old still believes if she swallows watermelon seeds, she will grow a watermelon in her tummy!

 

[Spring]

I always thought the green arrow turn signal thing that you turn on to tell other drivers which way you are going was some magical device that would tell us where to go.. that it came on by itself to point us in the directions we should go!

 

[MyLOVEABLES!!]

Haha well when i was lil i thought when i drink coke i'd have black pee and they'll be lil ants lol... weird i know.. haha

hmmm.. wat else..