Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

You too, huh?

I believed for a very long time that Abu Dhabi was something Garfield made up.

edited 7th Mar '15 5:41:32 PM by Robotnik

I thought it wasn't weird that my parents kept a bucket in our shared bedroom. What's weird about the bucket? We peed in it so we didn't have to go to the bathroom at night.

I thought a "temper" was some physical object that people carried around with them all the time and people got extraordinarily mad if they dropped it or it was broken, not if someone had royally ticked them off. I saw a picture of someone losing their temper and, as much as I looked at it, I couldn't see where their temper wound up or why they weren't trying to find it. (I envisioned it as some sort of frisbee-like object.)

My father told me not to stand on the yellow lines on an escalator, since "You might get caught". I realise now he meant my shoelaces or something. At the time, I honestly believed it was possible to have your entire leg sucked into the gap, so I made very sure to stand in the middle of each step.

For some reason my friend and I seemed to think being a detective involved capturing tiny people called "guys" and running around getting them and trapping them. At least, that's how we played detective.

I thought the RPM meter on the car meant how many RPM the wheels were going instead of the engine. I didn't get why it said like 1000 when the car wasn't moving.

I thought when it rains it rains everywhere in the world simultaneously

I used to believe Spacemaker carrying cases were portals to outer space.

edited 13th Apr '15 7:35:53 AM by DiurnalBrocolli

I thought online shopping was free because I couldn't figure out how the money would be transferred (I didn't know how credit cards work).

As a kid, I thought that Lilo & Stitch: The Series would have 600+ episodes dedicated to each experiment. It wasn't until I discovered This Very Wiki and found that it was just a 65-Episode Cartoon. But if it did extend to that many episodes...

I thought Thanksgiving was a two-day long holiday because we celebrated the holiday with one side of the family one day then celebrated with the next side of the family the next. So five-year-old me decided that Thanksgiving must be two days long if we ate turkey two days in a row.

I assumed that my grandmother's computer wasn't Windows because it had Firefox instead of IE.

When I first learned about gay people I thought people being gay was something invented in the last 50 years or so. Then I asked my mom and she said there have been gay people as long as there have been people

I once thought the nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" caused the bubonic plague instead of prevented it (I misread that part in The Almanac of the Gross, Disgusting, and Totally Repulsive)

No, it was just about it.

Nope.

*Snopes Wiki Walk ensues*

-plays music appropriate for Wiki Walking-

I used to think that txt spk, intenshanul misspelligs, using more than 3 exclamation points!!!!!!!, and using more than 1 emoticon per actual sentence was mature and "internet social" rather than making me look like an idiotic five-year-old troll.

Edit: self demonstration

edited 5th May '15 9:13:55 PM by SmartGirl333

I thought that my toys were alive for the longest time after watching Toy Story. I'd put all of my toys in the laundry room, wait for a few minutes, come back, and claimed that they moved.

Same here. (buries face in shame)

...same. Back when my family went to Ireland in 2010 (the same year Toy Story 3 came out, hint hint I hadn't been born yet to see the hype over 1 or 2) I kept putting my dolls and plushies in the living room and was convinced they were dancing when I was gone (how I got that idea, I'll never know) and that I could see the red shiny dress I had knitted for the china doll flashing as it "moved" when I opened the door.

Also, , if you want to know, my rule of thumb for exclamation points is:

1: normal excitement
2: It's one of my Berserk Buttons when people use 2
3: Extreme excitement
More: HAY GUISE IM 5!!!!!!!!!

edited 5th May '15 9:08:12 PM by SmartGirl333

I think I once saw a cartoon where a character ran (or drove) rapidly past a speed-limit sign and caused it to start leaning to one side - I think it may have been one of the Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner shorts. Anyway, I would see road signs like that in real life (or bus stops, etc) and concluded they got that way by one person driving really fast past them.

I believed that ll states were countries and that canada was a donut shop I thought that Europe was a made up place