Silly things you (or someone else) thought as a child

Ok, just to be silly today, what odd things did you believe to be true?

I used to think I could get sucked down the drain in the tub/shower.

My classmate, Kenny, thought if you ate crayons, you'd poop different colors.

Another classmate, Amy, thought that in the middle of saying the ABC's, we were saying "lemon-o-peas" instead of L,M,N,O,P.

How about you?

for some reason i thought Pretzels and Monopoly were Bretzels and Bonopoly.

not sure why i remember that either...but i do!  

i thought that when boys had sex with boys and girls had sex with girls they used a naval orange. there are more details but i'll spare you.

I thought tumbleweeds were props for movies. I didn't realize that they were actually real! ... I didn't come to the realization until about a year ago. >_< We were driving long distance and suddenly....

There was a Tumbleweed rolling across the road and I spazzed out. " STOP the car.. Omg, it's a tumbleweed....OMG! "

My husband: O_O...............................

Me: They're real!!! "

Him: O_O ur kiddin' me, right?! -Laughs at me-

In my defense I'd only ever seen them in old western movies,ect. Silly?!I dunno. I was on watch for the rest of the trip after that with the camera ready. . .Just waiting for some live footage of tumbleweeds in action! Lol

As a young child, and one raised on Star Wars and Star Trek, my mother had to quietly take me aside when I was 8 and inform me that man had never made it past the moon.

My brother, upon learning about how the earth spins very quickly from me, jumps onto the ground, clutches and screams, fearing he's about to fly off the planet.

And my personal favorite.. yeah.. those things.. the ones that look like Ants? They're Candy. Here, try one. They're yummy, aren't they? >;)

whenever i saw a manhole, i would stop, bend over, and talk to the ninja turtles.  i thought they were actually down there.  leonardo was my favourite.

i called my dog a gog.  and mis-pronounced my own name.  the "n" as a "m".  fun.

LoL @ the Star Wars/Star Trek one.  That's hilarious! You were so disappointed in mankind? :)

My little sister thought that Hawaii was actually in the clouds. Like it was built on one. Like a magical place in the clouds and that's why we flew there!

Original Post by starlitocean:

whenever i saw a manhole, i would stop, bend over, and talk to the ninja turtles.  i thought they were actually down there.  leonardo was my favourite.

 That's fantastic!

I thought velcro was from the moon (someone told me it was!)

I thought the more you ate, the stronger you got (nope, nope, turns out not so true)

When the sky was blue and reds/pinks I used to think it meant God and the Devil were fighting.

My friend thought chocolate milk came from brown cows.

When my brother joked and said I'd grow up with big boobies I told him I'd just cut them off and he said I'd bleed to death and I said 'nu uh! I'd put bandaids on!'

Original Post by jenniferthepennifer:

My friend thought chocolate milk came from brown cows.

 Someone is reading this somewhere saying... " >_< Where does it come from then?!!!"

My father used to say that mommy's made regular white milk... and daddy's made chocolate milk. My little sister wanted to check, but he came clean. "It's a joke!" It took some convincing on his behalf to right that wrong. Once a four year old gets something in their head...ooh my...lol

I used to think the buzzing from a cicada during molting in the hot summer were the hydro lines buzzing!

Original Post by jenniferthepennifer:

When my brother joked and said I'd grow up with big boobies I told him I'd just cut them off and he said I'd bleed to death and I said 'nu uh! I'd put bandaids on!'

  That reminds me. My sisters little boy thought Maxi-Pads were Band-Aids. Just really big ones for mommy. He asked if he was going to get big ones for his hurts when he grew up!

Fairly gross, but all us neighborhood kids believed that if you dropped food on the ground all you had to do was "kiss it up to God" (kiss it and then hold it towards the sky) and it would be clean to eat. Amazing that none of us got sick!

Me and my best friend would have sleepovers and convince ourselves that random noises outside were vampires who roamed the neighborhood at night. More likely they were winos rummaging through the trash.

I also remember her little brother insisting to us that baby roaches only grow on Saturdays, not sure why. Then another time, a group of us came home from school and found my home had been broken into (the front door wide open and off the hinges) so me and my brother went to the neighbor's so she could call the police and my mother. My friend's little brother this time insisted he saw the robber looking out the window of our house, wearing orange pants, a mask, and some sort of checkered shirt. He was kind of a funny kid.

I used to say I had two stomachs. One for dinner, and one for dessert.

And I used to wonder how I got so fat ..... -smacks foreheard-

My sister and cousin told me that there was a magical world in the back of my mom's closet where they went to all the time and met superman and wonderwoman...  I spent a lot of time in there trying to get in, but never could

I used to think babies came from walmart. (:

My dad was an air force brat and one of his sisters was born in Japan.  So I used to think that we had to have Japanese somewhere in our blood. XD  It took me a really long time to realize that we didn't.

Not something I thought but something my friend's dad would do to her when she was little: he'd tell her and her sister they had garments all over them and they'd just cry.

the first time i went on an airplane (i was 7) , i asked to have a window seat so that i could get a good look at Jesus sitting on the clouds (with baby angels, I thought)

we got up there, Jesus was nowhere to be seen, so I ask my mom - Mom, where's Jesus??? I look out the window and look back at her.  She has a bit of a blank look on her face and says, Jesus is in heaven.  Still.  I look back out the window and really try to strain to see more of the sky out there.  Then I turn back to her and say, Well, I don't see him.

Then my mom started telling me about how you can't see Jesus and I remember feeling so disappointed.

A few more: When I was real small I thought everyone on tv was actually a little tiny person who lived inside the television itself. I remember asking my Dad to open up the back and let Mr. Rogers come out. Also I thought cartoon characters, since they were so brightly colored, were really hot to the touch and would burn you.

We were sent to Catholic school early on and after a lesson on "false idols" (i.e. any other dieties worshipped in ancient times) me and my best friend became convinced that her house was cursed because her mother had this Greek tray with a picture of Dionysis on it in the living room. I remember her telling her mother "You have to get rid of that because he doesn't believe in God!" Oddly enough, now Dionysis is one of my favorite Greek dieties.

Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

the first time i went on an airplane (i was 7) , i asked to have a window seat so that i could get a good look at Jesus sitting on the clouds (with baby angels, I thought)

we got up there, Jesus was nowhere to be seen, so I ask my mom - Mom, where's Jesus??? I look out the window and look back at her.  She has a bit of a blank look on her face and says, Jesus is in heaven.  Still.  I look back out the window and really try to strain to see more of the sky out there.  Then I turn back to her and say, Well, I don't see him.

Then my mom started telling me about how you can't see Jesus and I remember feeling so disappointed.

 awww.