what did you guys believe to be true when you were kids which obviously isn't true now? here are a few of mine: 1) i used to think all cats were females and all dogs were males. 2) semen and urine were the same thing. it took an embarrassing moment in junior high to make me realize i was wrong. 3) i thought women peed out of their butthole.
Used to think I could call my cousins in Florida and find out the final scores of Rockets game one hour before everyone else. Not true.
I thought you could get a ticket if you just didn't look at a traffic sign because of the one sign that said "Observe all traffic signs, punishable by law"
I used to think the world was stacked and that's why people took airplanes to different places. I used to think maxi pads were for keeping skid marks off of women's panties. I am sure there are others I just have to think about them.
When I was really young, I used to think monsters lived under my bed and inside the toilet. One time, when I was 8, I thought I was doomed because I tore the tag off my parent's mattress that read DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG - PUNISHABLE BY LAW.
I used to think that it was Water-burger not What-a-burger. I never wanted to eat there because of that.
I wouldn't turn on the sink to wash my hands or brush my teeth until the toilet stopped running after a flush...
When I was a kid, if I tried to do somethng wrong, my mom would threaten to stick my hand down the garbage disposal. I believed her.
I believed that imaginary creature the younger kids hunted at summer camp was real. Even after the older kids came out to scare us I still thought it was real and I didn't want to go back in the woods at night. Funny, I thought and did the same thing.
I had the same urine semen mix up as a kid. I believed all the propoganda about drugs, specifically mar1juana. I thought it would ruin your life the first time you touched it. I thought only bad people would smoke it. I thought anyone who used drugs had zero chance of success in life.
When I was a kid... I used to think that clouds didn't really move - they they were stationary in the sky and the earth just rotated around under them. I used to think that the crack between my bed and the wall was a vortex of hell that patiently waited until I went to bed. Then, it would try to pull me down into its evil core. I used to think that BLT meant "belt". My mom once asked me if I wanted a BLT. I thought, "Hmm.... that kinda spells "belt", but she spelled it without an 'e'. I don't understand. But, ya know what, I'm gonna say 'no' just in case she means "belt"." So I said 'no'. note: When I got in big trouble, I would get spanked with a leather belt, thus the aversion.
I thought that you had to stop the car as soon as the light turned red and that my dad was a rebel for driving up to the red light itself...
I used to think that too. I remember watching an episode of Muppet Babies when I was a kid where Scooter explained the "Theory of Relativity". He described the TOR with an example of two boulders. One big boulder and one small boulder, where the big boulder was big "relative" to the smaller boulder. It wasn't until High School until I found out that it was a bit more complicated than that.
My mother told me dark chocolate was for baking not for eating; I thought it must be too bitter to eat so I didn't have any for a long time. My mother conveniently doesn't remember this, but I think it was just an offhand lie to keep me from eating her chocolate, or maybe just a misunderstanding. But, that's years without dark chocolate. This thread reminds me of an encounter I had with 2 little girls at a park a couple of years ago. They had come up to see my puppy (a white furry Great Pyr). One of them asked me if I was a Christian. I said no and the second girl just shrank back in horror and left. The girl who asked took it in stride, but the reaction of her friend was so surprising. What had she learned she could expect from non-Christians, if she ever had the misfortune to run across one?
I heard this joke when I was around 10 and got it a few years later. Why is semen white and piss yellow? So you can tell if you are coming or going.
Until I was corrected at the age of 10 i though the bumper sticklers that said "FLY NAVY" were a joke.
I found a bottomless pit of water, until my friend used a scientific process (a stick) to determine it's depth. That sucked. I had a freakin bootomless pit thing happening. I was pretty confident that Chris Mullin was a SG too.
I'll second the third on that list lol. hmm.....yeah the whata , water burger thing, although I still say waterburger lol and lastly, that the earth was flat.
