Random things you believed as a child light hearted

I thought a 7 a side rugby team had 8 players.
A rugby team has 15 players so if you put 7 or them aside you are left with 8 players.
Made perfect sense.

Catholic school

'And forgive us our trespasses' I thought was 'forgive our Frosties' and thought froasties cereal was special as it was the Lord's Prayer.

another prayer one

Hail Mary, I thought we said 'blessed now we go swimming' not 'blessed art thou amongst women', and we said it on a Tuesday morning as we had swimming every Tuesday afternoon.

I went to a church school, and one day when I was 4 or 5 a nun visited. A child asked why she’d become a nun, and she said she’d been « called by God ». For about ten years after I was terrified that God would « call me » as I really didn’t want to be a nun! In the same vein, I worried about the end of the world, and particularly the « four horsemen of the apocalypse ! » whenever I saw horses, I’d be jittery worrying whether there’d be four!!

I think it is.
I also thought that because I could see the people on telly then they must be able to see me too. And spent a good long while holding a grudge against the late Terry Wogan because I waved at him once during an episode of his chat show and he never waved back.

That the hazard warning button in the car was a rear ejector seat (my brother told me this and I believed it for an embarrassingly long time)

That you got pregnant when a man and woman rubbed tummies. If my parents hugged I tried to force myself between them so their tummies wouldn't touch

I thought any TV programmes shown on satellite TV were filmed on spaceships.

This is absolutely true. See also: haggis

My friend thought that if the ice cream van was playing music it meant he had run out of ice creams. Quite inventive of her mother I suppose but wouldn't work for me as I always want one too!

My dad used to call me Princess and when I was very little (probably around 3) I thought that meant he was the king and my mum was the queen.

That if you swallowed an apple seed a tree would grow inside you.

When around 11 the teacher was telling us about periods (1980. I hadn't started nor had any of my close friends) I thought when it did start there would be a massive gush and blood all over the floor and I was terrified I d start mine in class and everyone would know.

Still sort of believed this up to 13 when I started without any massive drama even after a few friends started and weren't writhing around in pools of blood.

That when you go to sleep you go off to Neverland. Was always disappointed not to meet Peter pan and tinkerbell (age about 7).

Worse when I was around that age people would avoid mentioning someone had died to children and say they d "gone to sleep but can't wake up anymore ". I was a terrible sleeper anyway and would lie in bed scared to sleep in case it happened to me.

We adopted my younger brother when I was six . At 11 I had an argument at school because she said babies came from god and I was adamant they came from a big house in London where you picked them .

I remember writing about how my parents liked Countrian Western music and was really cross with my primary school teacher who corrected it to Country and Western. She clearly didn't know what she was talking about 😂

I believed there was a ghost in my bedroom and was scared, but if I slept on my side and pulled the duvet right up over my ear, but not covering my face, that would mean it wouldn’t be able to get me.

Im 44 and still sleep like this every night, although I’m fairly confident the ghosts can actually get me still 😉

It isn't at all, just annoying.
My sister found this out last week aged 34 when I told her kids there are reading lights in the back of my car they could use!

I was talking to a school pupil only two weeks ago who was researching the FB and explained the trains’ journey to me exactly thus! I bet loads of people thought the same!

I thought the letter of the alphabet after K was 'elameno' (L, M, N, O as one letter said very quickly)

Double U is polysyllabic, elameno sounded plausible.

I have two that stand out.

My family used to go to a restaurant on the weekends that from the main dining room around the edges on the top floor were half sized interior windows complete with sheer curtains that looked over the dining room. From time to time you could see someone moving around or a curtain sort of moving. For some reason I was convinced that gnomes lived up there.

I was playing with a loud and I’m sure obnoxious toy when I was little. I went to get a snack or eat lunch or something and when I came back to the toy it didn’t work. My sister convinced me that the battery fairy came while I was away and took the batteries to be charged (this was well before rechargeable batteries were available) and if I wanted them back I had to go to bed early and recite a poem she shared with me. Funnily enough my mum didn’t correct the story when I went to bed insanely early that night.

In case you’re wondering, no Gnomes did not live above the restaurant and the battery fairy did come that night!

That's adorable!

If someone was remanded in custody, they were in a pool of custard

Outing if my mum or sister are here but remember those really vague sanitary towel ads in the early 90s? Where they just kind of showed a picture of the towel and then a very happy woman swishing about but didn't really say what it was for? (Not even blue liquid!)

Well there was one that showed tbe pad then cut to a woman laughing with her hand on her chest (funnily enough, she's now what i picture when I read "tinkley little laugh). So 4 year old me decided she had something which looked like a pad down her top and was holding it. So I spent the next few days putting a square of kitchen roll down my top, holding it in place and laughing dramatically while throwing my head back.

My parents thought I was bonkers.

Same! Except a different bridge.

I went on a school trip, where part of the trip was to cross the river Tees via the Transporter Bridge. I was terrified as we drove towards it. How would the coach get up to make the crossing - and so high! (Red line on the photo).

When we arrived the bridge was closed for maintenance.

It was years before I found out that vehicle are transported by a suspended gondola (platform) hanging below. ☺️

Was absolutely devastated to learn that clouds were not fluffy beds/trampolines. I thought you could get off the plane and jump around for a while. I had big plans

Not quite the same, but I believed there were tiny people in the radio playing the music.

I thought when someone sneezed the polite thing to reply was 'Bleshu'. I remember sneezing and saying it so a kid in my class said "If you sneeze, you say bless me."

After that I would say 'Bleshu Me'.

Did eventually put together that 'bleshu' wasn't a word and people were saying 'bless you' 😅

I used to be really confused if some died, did their body just disappear, if so why have a coffin? I can't remember how old I was when I knew the truth or how I found out as I was far to scared/ embarrassed to ask any of the adults! When my great uncle died when I was about 6 my grandma said that ' Jesus had called him', therefore I was terrified Jesus would decide to call me !