I believed "blowing the balloon" (translated from Portuguese, means taking a breathalyzer test) meant you would literally fill up a balloon, and then the cops would smell the air inside to find alcohol.
I also believed gypsies where born as adults, because there was an adult literacy program for the gypsy community at my school, and we thought that being on the same grade meant they were around our age.
After listening to the dicks, pussies and assholes monologue in Team America, I could think about one thing only: "You are what you eat."This kind of more cute/sad, but I remember when my first dog died, I saw what I thought was a sheltland-sheepdog-shaped cloud in the sky and thought that was him sailing off to doggie heaven. This was pre-The Lion King by the way.
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- The signal for car ignition passes though the seat belts. Because mom said "I can't start the car until everyone has their seatbelts on".
- The world used to be Black and White. You can see the moment it changed because the 1939 version of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz was being filmed when it happened.
About the black and white thing...there was a Calvin and Hobbes strip just like that, one of the ones where his dad, not knowing how to explain the truth to him, as usual makes up a ridiculous lie about the world being black and white in the old days.
I thought that microwave ovens were called Curie Boxes, because they work with Microwave Radiation (in my young mind Curie = Radiation), and they "cure" the food by heating it.
I also thought that all radiation was dangerous, and that since sunlight is radiation, that if you spent too long in the sun you would die from radiation poisoning.
Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.After a failed attempt at explaining how the microwave works and why you shouldn't stare at it as a kid, for years I believed that if you looked in the window while it was cooking, your head would explode.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I thought that every kid had their own tooth fairy, and that teeth were used as fairy currency. I also thought that they and all the other fairies lived in my back garden and used flowers for houses.
I thought my basement was haunted by a dead little girl named Abagail, and that my friend was possesed by her.
Also, I thought baby's came from my moms belly-button.
Everything happens for a reason. The reason is a chaotic intersection of chance and the laws of physics.I used to think that when we'd be on the interstate going to, say, a theme park an hour away, that ALL the people on that interstate would be going to the EXACT same place as me.
Cue me as a seven year old in the back of the car in dense traffic, thinking, "Shit. The park's going to be PACKED today."
I used to think that strangers were all PETA-files (members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). They all wore tuxedoes, and lure children into vans and limosines so that they can be brainwashed into Animal Wrongs Group activists.
I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green...I thought that everybody had their own unique name and that no two people would have the same combination of forename and surname, otherwise why would we have surnames?
For a ludicrously long time I lived in fear of horror movies because I knew that some films that weren't horror were scary enough, and that horror could scare even adults, so I started to assume they involved some kind of unimaginable terror that made me scared of even the risk of seeing one. When I finally did see one it was rather anticlimactic.
Welcome To TV Tropes | How To Write An Example | Text Formatting Rules | List Of Shows That Need Summary | TV Tropes Forum | Know The StaffI didn't know you could curse in R rated movies for the longest time. Like, last year, when I saw a clip of Reservoir Dogs, and I was like "YOU CAN SAY THE WORD FUCK ALL YOU WANT IN AN R RATED MOVIE?!?!?!"
Read my stories!I thought that things didn't ever grow. I believed that the big trees were the new ones, and the sprouts were the old ones. I thought that everything had to degrade and get worse over time, and that because of this, the future HAD to be worse than the present and past.
I also believed that people weren't entitled to their own definition of words.
I was a stupid, stupid, Rat Creature kid.

I thought that 11 x 10 was 102. I misheard it on the Schoolhouse Rock cassette tape, OK?
Also, a slightly less funny one: I used to think that the Nazis were fictional. See, I connected them with The Sound Of Music, and I knew that stuff that's true in movies isn't ALWAYS true in real life. Needless to say, when I found out that Hitler was a real historical figure, and that the events of the movie, war and escape included, were REAL, I didn't react well.
I'm in your fanfiction, correcting your spelling.