Silly things you believed when you were young

[pinksalamander]

I thought this might be funny. Does anyone have any embarassing things they used to believe when they were little? How to say words, or things your parents told you?

My main one was passed down from my Dad, my Grandparents told him it when he was younger and he passed it on to me, and extended it.

Basically, you know crumpets? Well, crumpets grow on the Crumpet Tree. There are these little creatures called Crumpet Weavels that live inside the crumpets. They burrow down into the crumpets and thats why crumpets have all those little holes on them.

When you pick the crumpet and put it in the toaster, it gets too hot, and all the weavels jump out and crawl back to the crumpet tree.

I can't believe my parents told me this! LOL!

Also, I didn't realise LA and Los Angeles were the same place until I was about 10!

My friends Mum told him and his sisters that you couldn't cook Yorkshire puddings after May because they wouldn't rise properly, mainly because she hated having to make the Yorkshire puddings for their Sunday Roasts!

Does anyone else have any funny things they used to believe when they were younger?

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[slavetoabunny]

My dad had an extremely hairy chest and I thought that I would have a hairy chest when I grew up too. I'm sure glad I was wrong about that one!!

 

[pinksalamander]

Forgot to say one about my Dad too. My Dad is called David. His Dad is called David too. He has a brother called Micheal but their neighbour was also called David. His uncle too (on my Grans side) was called David, so my Dad thought all men when they grew up got called 'David'.

As it turns out my Dad, and both my Grandads are ALL called David! I think if I have a son I will definitely have to feature the name David in his name somewhere!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

oh my these are too funny i will have to think about this one.

 

[kherrmann3]

Haha! Pinksalamander, I LOVE the crumpet tree thing! Too cute! :biggrin2:

I have to admit, I was a screwed up kid... I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, so that explains a lot. Plus, I was raised on British television (Black Adder, Monty Python, Mr. Bean, Fawlty Towers, to name a few), so my "sense of humor" was a lot different than other kids who loved watching Full House or Roseanne. I don't care, I feel smarter for it... lol ANYWAYS...

I was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of the character "Alf" from the show "Alf" (American television is SO creative) :headsmack. I was so afraid of him breaking into our house. I was convinced he was going to attack my family. I was also afraid of the "mole people" from Looney Tunes (the ones from the center of the Earth?).

Oddly enough, I was told about the "rainbow bridge" story when I was little. When my "cousin", Dawn, (she is my Aunt's niece - from my Uncle's side) came to visit from Alaska, she told us about how when your pets die, they wait for you in a field on one side of a bridge. She said that once the owner dies, the reunited pets cross over the bridge with their owners. She never made mention of a "rainbow bridge", but the story is the same. She is Inuit and said that it is a common folk tale among them. It's not a silly belief, but it still is with me to this day (I was shocked when I saw the "rainbow bridge" thread and poems). I didn't know anyone else knew the story! It's comforting though...

I will stop there. I am going to cry if I think about the bridge anymore... I have too many friends waiting for me...

 

[Bassetluv]

My dad used to tell me that I was found out in a farmer's garden in the middle of nowhere, living under a cabbage leaf...my parents felt sorry for me and brought me home with them. Yep, I believed it.

He also told me that I would grow hair on my chest when I got older, and being a young girl, I was mortified; I'd check every day to see if any hairs were starting to sprout. (They haven't yet, but I'ma still checkin'...) Oh yeah, he also told my sister and I that if we ever started shaving our legs, we'd wind up 'as hairy as Aunt Jean'. Apparently we had this infamous aunt living in BC who, as the story goes, began shaving her legs and wound up hairier than a sasquatch (maybe that's why she moved to BC? hhhmmm). We believed this old wives' tale (or in our case, old dads' tale) for quite some time...and then one day we took a look in the family photo album of some long-lost relatives, after we'd grown old enough and were already shaving...needless to say, at least one of us - and it isn't me - singlehandedly keeps the Gillette company in business.

We had a family living down the street from us, and to say that the mom was a bit eccentric was a bit of an understatement. She never allowed her daughters to grow their hair long, as she was convinced the roots would get just as long and would get tangled up in their brains. She also told both daughters that if they pulled the drain plug whilst sitting in the bathtub, they'd get sucked into the pipes. The younger daughter soon caught on to the obvious falsehood of that one, but the older daughter believed it (as did the mom) and apparently one evening when she was taking a bath she accidentally knocked the plug out, and sat there screaming until her mother rescued her...she was 17 or 18 at the time. :?

 

[BlueGiants]

Bassetluv wrote:

We had a family living down the street from us, and to say that the mom was a bit eccentric was a bit of an understatement. She never allowed her daughters to grow their hair long, as she was convinced the roots would get just as long and would get tangled up in their brains. She also told both daughters that if they pulled the drain plug whilst sitting in the bathtub, they'd get sucked into the pipes. The younger daughter soon caught on to the obvious falsehood of that one, but the older daughter believed it (as did the mom) and apparently one evening when she was taking a bath she accidentally knocked the plug out, and sat there screaming until her mother rescued her...she was 17 or 18 at the time. :?

Whoa! That is sad... not a lot of practical knowledge in that family, huh?

 

[pinksalamander]

Bassetluv wrote:

We had a family living down the street from us, and to say that the mom was a bit eccentric was a bit of an understatement. She never allowed her daughters to grow their hair long, as she was convinced the roots would get just as long and would get tangled up in their brains. She also told both daughters that if they pulled the drain plug whilst sitting in the bathtub, they'd get sucked into the pipes. The younger daughter soon caught on to the obvious falsehood of that one, but the older daughter believed it (as did the mom) and apparently one evening when she was taking a bath she accidentally knocked the plug out, and sat there screaming until her mother rescued her...she was 17 or 18 at the time. :?

Has anyone seen the film Carrie? That story kinda reminds me of that!

Also, my friend thought that Japan was the capital of China and that the plural of goosebumps was 'geesebumps'.

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[EileenH]

My mother used to tell me that if I didn't eat I would "go down the hole in the drain".

I also was waiting for the day that my brother would be so bad that my mother actually WOULD bring him back to the crabby lady at the toy store and return him, for a charge credit. - that was a common threat she used on him to behave.(He was very into money and understood that we weren't looking to get cash for him..) Ha, that probably would be cause for child services nowadays!

The only other thing that I falsely believed was that when I got a full time job, I would make about $100,000 a year- I had no concept of money, apparantly.

 

[JadeIcing]

kherrmann3 wrote:

I was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of the character "Alf" from the show "Alf" (American television is SO creative) :headsmack. I was so afraid of him breaking into our house. I was convinced he was going to attack my family.

OMG! I love him! I just picked up season 2 and have been watching it!

 

[BEAUKEZRA]

I was told that all swimming pools had a device that if you peed in the pool a red ring would circle you and everyone would know who did it. I never even thought about peeing in a pool after I heard that!

 

[NZminilops]

This one is really gross and if it's too much a mod can edit it, but until I was about 10 I thought babies came from mothers bottoms.

:embarrassed:

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

That boys had cooties

haha. That's a classic. lol.

Emily

 

[Brandy456]

BEAUKEZRA wrote:

I was told that all swimming pools had a device that if you peed in the pool a red ring would circle you and everyone would know who did it. I never even thought about peeing in a pool after I heard that!

ARE YOU SIRIOUS. That isn't true. :shock:. Oh gosh.... :?

 

[Brandy456]

NZminilops wrote:

This one is really gross and if it's too much a mod can edit it, but until I was about 10 I thought babies came from mothers bottoms.

:embarrassed:

But they do... Unless you mean the other bottom. :?

 

[NZminilops]

What other bottom is there? I sure don't have two :shock:.

 

[MeOMy]

I couldn't resist adding to this but I was raised in Arizona and we traveled quit a bit. Arizona of course is surrounded by mountains and as a child I just couldn't comprehend how you got around those mountainsand ended up someplace else.

I also use to call sideburns "fireflies"! :biggrin2:

 

[LadyBug]

my dad told me, and i believed for a long time-

that if you didn't jump off escalators they sucked your feet inside

and that if you sat on coal long enough it would turn into a diamond

:sofa::embarrassed:

that was pretty much it for me. i'll add if i think of anything else:thumbup

 

[stephiemarie78]

My grandpa is missing part of his finger and he always told us that he was picking his nose and a burger bit it off. I didn't question this till i was in my teens. Actually to this day I have no clue what really happened to that finger.

 

[Korr_and_Sophie]

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

Apparently bread crust makes your hair curly. I seem to have eat a lot of it as my hair is very curly.

My Grandpa believes that the skin on cucumbers is posionous. Doesn't bother me.