Ramona Quimby, is that you?
Heh.
I used to think that how the phone worked was that the people who work at the phone company knew who was friends with who, so they’d randomly decide that two people should talk, and make their phones ring.
I thought sex was just kissing when you were naked.
My cousin thought that one breast was plain milk, the other was chocolate.
I did.
Absolutely thought this.
'Course, maybe I was just a dumb kid.
Hey-anyone have any weird thoughts that I was dumb as rocks when they were a kid?
Hey-makes sense to me!
Just remembered another one.
I didn’t get that Hilton hotels and Hilton Head Island were two different things.
When we travelled, I’d ask if we were going to stay at a
Hilton Head.
I love this!
You must have been one stressed-out kid on road trips!
I didn’t get the Last Supper. I couldn’t understand why Jesus and the Apostles had more than one supper. (Meaning, did they just sit there and eat supper say, ten times?)
Before I learned about lending money at interest, I thought banks were performing a public service: they would store peoples’ money for them, pay out interest, and sometimes even hand out cookies and coffee. I wondered how they stayed in business.
I thought the “EST” listed after the time for a TV program stood for “estimated.”
Using my first grader brain, I figured this must be because they wouldn’t be able to predict when a football game (or some other sporting event) would end so they had to estimate the times for later shows on the schedule.
Ah, so you’re not the only one! I was a child of the 70’s so we had color TV. When I was very little I thought that everything in the old days was black-and-white, because old movies were that way. I also thought that the South Pole was extremely hot and that sanitary pads were some kind of diaper When I saw a box of pads in the bathroom, I wondered when my mom was expecting another baby!
I used to wonder why there were signs that said “Fine for Littering” and why they would pay you $300 for it. I never got to find out, though.
i thought that james dean grew up (guess i didn’t know he died)and changed his name to jimmy dean to sell sausages. i thought i was the only one who was able to figure this out because i was so saavy with nicknames.
i also thought that “don’t drink and drive” meant any kind of drink, alcoholic or otherwise, and i always wondered, when my dad would drink coke in the car, why he was breaking the law like that.
::smirking:: Nah Guinistasia, I get that a lot. I’m Ramone Quincy from Kluckitut Ave. I have a brother named Beevus. Easy mistake.
I didn’t realize that people lived on mountains and I thought that the only way you could be at high altitudes was to be flying in an airplane. Whenever I saw high altitude directions on a cake mix box, I always wondered why people were baking cakes on airplanes.
I was a child of the 1940’s and 50’s. I thought that once you got married there was a law that said you had to have sex. I couldn’t imagine anyone actually wanting to do that.
I used to need to sleep in total darkness - you see Jesus is the light. I didn’t want him watching me sleep.
I had a bunch of irrational fears of god thans to a fundie grandma - and her version of god was that wrathful vidictive god.
My father’s side of my family came from a small town called “Oakman” population about 50.
When I was a small kid I liked football, espeically the Oakman Raiders. Y’know, the ones that had Ken Stabler and Fred Biletnikoff. It never occurred to me that there might be some other place being referred to.
I had a lot of body issues. I didn’t understand about blood vessels and I thought we were essentially bags of bloods with organs swimming around maybe anchored to the bones somehow. So when I cut myself I’d be terrified that ALL the blood could leak out even if it was a tiny scratch.
One day when I was 5 or 6 I got to thinking about how babies were made and figured it just happened without warning so I asked my mother how I could know if there was anything I could do to stop it from happening. I think we were both relieved when we cleared that up. For some reason I never tied lactation to pregnancy and always thought women with erect nipples were about to spurt. I was really horrified during t-shirt season. I was always anxious that one day my breasts would grow and that after that my nipples would stick out at random times. I thought if you touched a woman’s breasts when their nipples were sticking out milk would come out. Ew.
Apart from body issues I thought that everyone in the U.S. was white because I asked my mother why they never had any black people on T.V. and she said something about the shows being American. I thought Sesame Street was a Canadian show and The Brady Bunch was American. I came to think the reason Asian people were not on tv at all was because they didn’t like T.V. My friend Jan was Japanese and her mom would not let her watch T.V. ever so it all made sense to me at the time. I also thought that after 7pm all the shows involved naked adults having sex. I was very disappointed the first time I got to see the forbidden Love Boat. I thought it was going to be much dirtier.
I was a totally weird kid. You want some quotes?? " Mommy, how big are horses’ eggs??" Okay, ha ha, honest mistake, could’ve happened to anyone. You want more?? " If I were a bird and I married a boy bird and he brought me a worm, I wouldn’t eat it." Where does this stuff come from?? Fear not, things like this spout out of my mouth on a frequent basis, although I’ve finally reached the mature age of 19. But hey, I’ll be 20 in a month. Maybe wisdom will come to me then. Probably not.
Like a few posters above, I too believed the world was black and white before I was born. Weird… Didn’t expect anyone else to have such strange ideas.
I also thought Dave from Wendy’s was actually at every Wendy’s restraunt. When I went in and didn’t see him, I burst into tears and threw a fit because he wasn’t there.
Hmm… What else. Oh. Apparently, I had trouble discerning cartoon people from real people - I’d ask why our clothes had wrinkles in them and the cartoon’s clothes didn’t.
When I was…five, I think, I thought the Presidential Elections were actually just a poll, and that the President chose his successor himself, but it would considered “bad form” to pick someone other than who all the voters liked best.
The “FBI Warning” on videotapes gave me a bit of a start, too.
And I believe at one point that I thought that the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been a direct retaliation for Pearl Harbor-like, within a couple of weeks.