We oft do “adorable things you believed as a child” threads. This is a sort-of extension of that: “adorable things you believed as an adult.” Specifically, mundane/simple things that you didn’t figure out until you were well out of childhood.
I’ll start:
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[li]Until I was about 15/16, I thought Jesus of Nazareth was put to death for not worshiping the Roman gods (my family didn’t spend much time in church prior to that, when they all got religion).[/li][li]I was comfortably into adulthood when I figured out that Girl Scout Cookies are baked in commercial bakeries by professionals. I legitimately believed that there were a bunch of Girl Scouts (with adult supervision of course) working the ovens/mixing stations at some bakery in Minneapolis our Sioux Falls.[/li][/ul]
I was around 45 when I realised that C-3PO has one silver leg. I’ve seen Star Wars an infinite number of times, ever since it was in the theatres in the late 70s!
It difficult to notice in most scenes because C-3PO’s lower body is not really heavily featured in closeups and the ones we do get are on, say, Tatooine, where the sand reflecting off of it makes it look the same color as the rest of him, or at least close enough. But it really has been silver the whole time, at least in the original films.
I was in the 8th grade, and therefore 13, when I figured out by observation how to catch a ground ball in softball/baseball. Our stupid useless gym teacher never taught us anything – the guys who were in little league knew how, and the rest of us were stupid and clumsy – so I had to learn it myself. I surprised everyone by not bobbling the ball. Of course, my throw to first was way off, but one thing at a time.
2 years ago I figured out the right way to flush a toilet I was 68 at the time. I have always flushed it too fast like I do everything not giving it a chance to fully flush. I have repalced my toilets 4 or 5 times over the years because I thought they were poor flushers. Now I hold the handle town for at least a 1 count and I no longer have problems.
When I was a kid I somehow got the idea that Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas was owned by Sid Caesar. I think I was in my twenties when I finally realized that that was not the case.
I am in my early 50s but I am still shocked at how much people lie everyday.
I think people are mostly honest but I am still surprised how many times people I care about have told me false things to keep up appearances or when the truth was too painful. It doesn’t seem to matter as it can be friends or strangers.
And I am not even referring to social media - which I don’t use.
Farm stuff:
As a city boy, I was in my twenties before I lived in a farming area and realized that cows give milk for the same reason all mammals do…because they gave birth.
I had never really thought about it before.
But I had just assumed that cows produce milk constantly through their lives, just like a factory assembly line.
Hey, there was always a constant supply of it in the supermarket, right?
As a young child I learned that the label in the neck of a shirt or sweater always goes at the back. I was thus one of the first in my class to never to put my clothes on back-to-front after PE. It was only in my 50s that I also learned that there is another label near the hem that is always on the LHS, which simplifies the process even more. When did that start?
I grew up calling a hooded sweatshirt a hooded sweatshirt. When my kids were young, one of them used the word “hoodie”, and I corrected what I thought was baby-talk. Apparently I was the last person in the US to know the word hoodie.
