Your strange beliefs as a child

[Retromatic]

I also used to believe that Vanilla Ice was cool.

 

[Mr^B]

"For Sale", I used to think was pronounced "For Sally". I thought she must be very important to have all these houses.

"To Let", I thought they'd simply missed out an "i" in the middle and consequently thought they were public conveniences.

 

[Pookie Bear]

I thought that gay men rubbed their bottoms togther and that was what I'd heard called 'bumming'.

There have been some really interesting comments in this thread, some of which I can relate to - but the above was the only one which made me burst out laughing

 

[h00fzilla]

I thought here used to be dinosaurs on the moon. I'd misinterpreted 2001 A Space Odyssey....

 

[Crowort]

I used to think broccoli was a baby tree. I also had that feeling that only I was real and the rest of the world was some kind of Truman show.

 

[Cosimo]

I thought lollipop lady gave you sweets to cross the road.

 

[BenjiSayers]

I thought when I saw old black and white pictures that they were the only colours they had back in those days

 

[Dan Dan]

I use to believe that there were eyes in pictures. When I was shopping in town they always seemed to be looking at me Creepy pictures!

 

[AHarvey]

That you had to be quiet when recording anything from the TV so it didn't pick up your voice on the tape.

That it wasn't cars that moved, but the roads

 

[Thunderbolt]

I believed I was the only real person, and everybody else was an elaborate hoax.

Me too.

I accept that it could still be true to some extent. Like the theory that no matter how many times you try to shoot yourself in the head you'd never die.

 

[Noxia]

I used to think that when you were driving the trees were moving. I also thought the lizards in our back garden were crocodiles.

 

[Trusty]

I watched Alien when i was like 10, from then on i had to check under the couchs whenever i went to bed.

 

[Pestilence]

That life wasn't a big pile of ****.

That the police truly had your back.

 

[Edrof]

That there would be no lazy or annoying or selfish or egotistical people when I grew up and got out of school. I genuinely thought all adults would be sensible and nice.

How wrong I was. HOW WRONG I WAS.

 

[MickeyFinns]

I once asked my Dad why Iceland and Greenland were named as such when in photos from space Greenland is predominantly white and Iceland is Brown/Green.

My Dad responded by saying they swapped names during the second world wwar to confuse the Germans. I believed this for longer than I care to admit.

 

[PardonTheWait]

My Grandpa was an actor, and I thought he was a soldier because some of the pictures of him around our house were from films and he was in military clothing in a lot of them.

 

[Building Candy]

I used to think God looked exactly like that little bird snoopy had...... was it woodstock? anyway I have no idea why

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

That 'keepsies' meant 'keepsies', not 'I know you won my fancy marble fair and square, magnolia, but I don't want to give it to you so I'm going to tell my dad! Wah wah wah!'

Well, **** you, Elaine Mathers! That was my damned marble, you harlot

 

[HangTime]

That babies came out of a woman's bottom (I remember asking questions like, "how does the man/woman know when the seed/baby is ready to come out, what if they go to the toilet and it comes out?!?" etc)

That the seasons were as follows:
Spring: Jan-Mar
Summer: Apr-Jun
Autumn: Jul-Sep
Winter: Oct-Dec

That a hatrick in football was some kind of elaborate trick for scoring a goal.

That a national speed limit sign meant "any mile-an-hour you like" (that was what I called the signs)

That banking was all physical i.e. vaults full of money being shifted around

 

[wnb]

We have a phyciatric hospital on the outside of Carlisle, they used to have Large water towers and I thought this was where they put the maniacs in there straight jackets!

I watched too many back and white horror fims as a kid