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rosie_the_riveter · Gucci

RE: What did you believe as a kid?

cahabo · Kate Spade

When my siblings and I were little kids riding in the car with our mom, before going over a bridge she would tell us that if we weren't good that she would throw us into the river. I would be pretty scared until we were past the bridge! Now that I think of it, that was such a terribly mean thing to say to a child.

Kelly · Hermes

rosie_the_riveter wrote:

I thought that if you looked at a dog while it was pooping, that you would get pregnant.

where did you come up with that one?

Eurodaisy · Dooney & Bourke

Collette wrote:
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.

I nearly died laughing from this one! That's the kind of grandmother I'm going to be one day...

Mandy · Kate Spade

My best friend's dad told us that the fuzzy looking vines that grow up trees (poison oak or ivy) were the fingers of giants buried in the ground. It was a really effective way to make sure i didn't touch it.

My ex husband's brother's name is Tad and his family used to always call him Tadpole. My ex believed that was really his name until about the age of 20 when I forced him to ask his mom.

Jahni · Dooney & Bourke

We have a really big Paper Mill in my town, it is the largest employer and basically keeps my town and the surrounding area alive. Unfortunately it smells really bad. Anytime anyone would comment on the smell someone would usually reply "That's the smell of money being made." So until I was in about the 7th grade I thought they actually printed money there.

I never took a bath if it was raining because I was afraid lightening could strike you in the bathtub.

And I know this doesn't really go along with the topic, but it kind of does...when my sister was 15 she asked me if I thought my parents had ever had sex...I almost fainted.

rosie_the_riveter · Gucci

ttara123 wrote:
rosie_the_riveter wrote:

I thought that if you looked at a dog while it was pooping, that you would get pregnant.

where did you come up with that one?

I have no idea. I think my sister (who is 5 years older) told me that.

I thought of anther thing too, although, I wasn't a kid. I thought that the Al Quada Network was a news network like CNN is to the U.S. I guess I should actually be ashamed of admitting that one.

boobaby · Kate Spade

I just thought of something cute. I was taking my dog for a walk along Lake Michigan. Before I got down to the lakefront, I had to pass through a small park. A little girl, probably 6 years old, asked me if she could pet my dog. I let her and as she was petting him she told me not to go in the water because there were sharks. I said "Sharks? Really? Who told you that?" She said her dad told her. I guess that is one way to keep your kids out of Lake Michigan!

NCshopper · Hermes

This thread reminds me of the best segment of public radio I've ever heard in my life. It's about people that brought misconceptions they learned in childhood into adulthood (example: a girl who thought unicorns were real until she found out otherwise AT A KEG PARTY.)

http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/293.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php

If the link doesn't work, go to www.thislife.org, then click on '05 off to the left, then scroll down to 7/22: A Little Bit of Knowledge.

I promise it's worth your while.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

When I was about 5 after watching something on Sesame Street of dirt movers eating chocolate ice cream after some work, I thought chocolate ice cream was made from dirt!

Also from my Kindergarten days I thought making mud pies would be an inviting appetizer preventing robbers from entering our house. They'd eat the mud pie and get sick!

Kelly · Hermes

NCshopper wrote:
This thread reminds me of the best segment of public radio I've ever heard in my life. It's about people that brought misconceptions they learned in childhood into adulthood (example: a girl who thought unicorns were real until she found out otherwise AT A KEG PARTY.)

http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/293.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php

If the link doesn't work, go to www.thislife.org, then click on '05 off to the left, then scroll down to 7/22: A Little Bit of Knowledge.

I promise it's worth your while.

That was good! I feel pretty bad for the unicorn girl... at least she was at a keg party. Maybe she could play it off as a bad drunken joke. That's what I'd do!!

Makes me wonder what I believe that's wrong...

Aurora · Marc Jacobs

How funny. I remember going on a snipe hunt when my brother went to cub scout camp (they do it as families unlike girl scouts).

The only story I really remember is that my great grandfather had a farm with cows and my brother and I were really young - like 9 and 5 or younger and somehow we decided that white milk came from white cows and chocolate milk came from brown cows. I have no idea where we came up with that because I remember my ggf only had "beef" cows which are brown and no milk came out of them.

jacL · Coach

My dad has always had a mustache but when I was three or four years old I told him I didn't like it anymore so he shaved it off. He looked so different that I told him to put it back on and couldn't understand that hair has to grow back. I gave him some glue and told him to glue it back on and thought he was lying when he said he couldn't.

ranchera20 · Marc Jacobs

These all funny/cute stories!!

When I was about 6-8 I was scared of thunder so my sister would tell me that it was just God bowling and everytime we would hear a loud thunder we thought "he made a strike!"

theotherjess · Chanel

Thought of another one. Anyone ever been invited to the pen15 club?