STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

BargainQueen · Marc Jacobs

What did you believe as a kid?

luckylily · Gucci

Oh, the old lady w/ the walker story is kind of sad.

I grew up in a house that was kind of on the outskirts of town, the only structure we could see was the very top of a timber mill that was a about 10 miles off in the distance. The mill had two huge smokestacks that spilled out steam and smoke 24 hours a day. I it was a cloud factory and the smoke coming out of the stack was brand new clouds.

boobaby · Kate Spade

A friend told me when I was really little that the reason women had twins or triplets is because they had sex after they got pregnant. I am ashamed to admit I believed her for awhile. So whenever I saw someone who had twins, I was like "She had sex when she was pregnant!" This was scandalous to a 6 year old kid.

ETA: I only really knew that sex involved being naked with someone, and I couldn't believe a pregnant person would let anyone see her naked.

Also, one time my sister and I were watching Solid Gold (does that date me?). One of the Solid Gold dancers was white and had on really dark hose. My sister told me that was because she was mixed race. She was pulling my leg obviously and I didn't really trust her, but still, it made me wonder...Again, I was like 6 years old.

-- Edited by boobaby at 20:58, 2007-01-24

Sandy · Kate Spade

I'm sure I'll edit later because I am and always have been the most gullible person ever, but right now I can only think of one... I believed that my grandpa was shipped over to America from Italy in a cardboard box when he was a boy. I actually believed that until a few years ago...

NCshopper · Hermes

I was the most gullible kid ever. Still am.

* When I was like 5, my best friend lived across the street and she was a few years older. My family was planning a trip up to Disneyland and my friend told me her brother had been shot by one of the pirates on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. When we got to Disneyland, my parents wanted to go on the ride and I freaked out and finally had to tell them what my friend had told me. They felt the need to prove her wrong and make me go on the ride and I don't think I've ever been that terrified in my entire life.

* Same friend told me that the way babies are made is that the boy pees into the girl.

* Same friend told me about Bloody Mary. I totally believed the whole thing where if you repeat Bloody Mary three times in front of a mirror in the dark, she'll appear. I freaked myself out so bad one time, I threw up.

* When I was about 16, my old youth pastor told our group one time while we were river-rafting about this particular breed of web-footed mountain goats that would eat on one side of the river and poop on the other side. I completely bought it.

lynnie · Chanel

i still remember going to see the movie "hocus pocus" for a birthday party when i was a kid. My mom was watching it with a bunch of other moms and at the end I went up to her and said i liked it, but whats a virgin (in the movie they make fun of a kid for being a virgin). She told me its when someone isn't married yet. I asked, well, why were they making fun of him for that?? and she just said, honey, i don't know. grrrr!!!

theotherjess · Chanel

Ever been on a snipe hunt ?

I am still the most gullible person ever. I believe everything.

I just thought of an example but I'm blanking out now...I'll edit later.

Kelly · Hermes

When I was little, my mom told me that eating the crust on bread would help you whistle. I ate crust religiously until I was about 10 years old until I figured that one out. I never had an issue with crust, so I don't even know why my mom told me that one. Just to pull my leg, I guess

theotherjess wrote:
Ever been on a snipe hunt ?

LOL When I was in high school, we read a story about a snipe hunt. I guess my teacher assumed everyone knew what a snipe hunt really was, and I guess everyone else knew, except me. So I didn't really understand the story, because it never actually was said what a snipe hunt was - we just got the perspective of the little boys who were told to go hunting. I wrote an essay on the story, completely BSing it, and since snipes are real I actually found some information on them and used it in my essay.

It wasn't until about 3 years later that I actually figured it out. I got a B or something on the essay, somehow, but I bet it's because my teacher felt so sorry for me for being dumb!

HeatherLynn · Gucci

Clearly I'm gullible. I have no idea what a snipe is.

I will believe anything and everything someone tells me. My dad told me all kinds of things when I was little because he knew I would believe them. I would always look at my mom to see if he was being serious or teasing me. =)

Bastet · Kate Spade

When I was about 7, my parents were thinking about buying a new house. I overheard them talking about houses costing "around one hundred". I thought they meant $100 instead of $100,000, so I started saving my allowance because I thought I could help them buy a house!

bloomie · Marc Jacobs

When I was in the first grade, we had an assembly at school and it was a magician who had been born deaf. I thought the principal said he had been born "dead" so I turned around to my friend who was sitting behind me and said, "He was born dead. He must have used his magic to bring him self back to life."

-- Edited by bloomie at 10:09, 2007-01-25

Collette · Chanel

My grandmother had one of those old fashioned washing machines in her basement and she used to tell us that it was a money making machine. So until I was about 12 I thought my grandmother made money in her basement

Again at my grandmothers house her door wasn't sealed properly, as older houses typically aren't. So when the wind blew it made this terribly howling noise and she used to tell us there was a moose outside the door trying to get it. We all believed her for years.

clothes_horse · Dooney & Bourke

when i was first learning how to read, i thought that the "pass with care" signs said "pass with cake" so i figured you could only pass other cars if you had cake in your car.

dangergirl · Kate Spade

these replies have got me laughing out loud

i also don't know what a snipe is...

greendiamond · Marc Jacobs

When I asked where babies came from, my mom told me they came out the belly button. I believed her for a long time. And, when I found out where babies really came from, I thought the belly button idea was MUCH better!

My mom also told me that if I turned on and off the light switch really fast a lot that I would cause a fire. I believed that until my husband told me I was nutz when I yelled at him for doing it.

I also bought into the jackalope thing for a moment.

Oh, I had one more and I forgot it!

-gd

Kelly · Hermes

dangergirl wrote:
these replies have got me laughing out loud
i also don't know what a snipe is...

a snipe is an actual bird, but they're extremely hard to catch - that's where the word "sniper" came from! So a lot of times when newbies go camping, or when old grandpas want to play a trick on little kids or something, they'll tell them to go on a snipe hunt and usually make up some crazy way to catch the snipes, like making a weird call and trapping them in a bag, or something ridiculous. Obviously, no one ever catches them that way. Sometimes they'll also abandon you in the middle of the 'hunt' to see how long it takes you freak out.

not very nice, all around

tri_sarah_tops · Marc Jacobs

greendiamond wrote:

My mom also told me that if I turned on and off the light switch really fast a lot that I would cause a fire. I believed that until my husband told me I was nutz when I yelled at him for doing it.

Me too! Sadly, I think my mom told me that because it was passed down from her mom and she actually believes it. I had no idea it wasn't true until my roommate died laughing when I told her she was going to burn the house down.

Metric · Gucci

When I was little my mom told me she got paid a salary, which I thought was celery. So I thought that my mom would get paid in celery from her work and she's have to trade it with other people who got paid in milk or cheese or bread or whatever so we'd have different groceries.
Wait- that makes me sound like i was a really stupid little kid.

theotherjess · Chanel

This thread is hysterical!!

I thought of some more.

-I used to watch the Flintstones when I was little and Fred's boss would always want to fire him. I didn't know that firing someone meant they were kicked out of their job, I thought they literally would set him on fire. I was scared to watch it because I thought they were going to burn Fred.

-This kid in kindergarten told me that he was half alive and half dead because half of him drowned in the bathtub. I believed him.

Kelly · Hermes

theotherjess wrote:
This kid in kindergarten told me that he was half alive and half dead because half of him drowned in the bathtub. I believed him.

ROFL that's cracking me up!

I thought of another one! When I was in kindergarten, I didn't know where babies came from. I just thought, you know, that a man and a woman love each other a whole lot, and then a baby just appears. But I did know that pregnant women ate a whole lot. I was "in love" with a guy in kindergarten, and for a couple days I was really hungry all the time. I thought I was pregnant! I was so freaked out and I couldn't figure out why my mom was so sure I wasn't.

I actually saw the guy I was "in love with" years later, at a party in high school. My best friend actually made out with him that night. I told him the story about me being "pregnant," but he didn't think it was funny so much as just really weird... oh well!