Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did

For a very long time I believed that rumble strips were designed so blind people knew when they were approaching a roundabout and it was time to break

I just had a moment of realisation one day whilst driving over a set that that clearly was not true. My dad almost keeled over laughing him when I told him I now knew that was a lie.

My Dad used to throw a tennis ball up high in the garden & catch it, higher & higher. Then he'd warn us (me & DB) it was going to be a really big one & throw it so high we couldn't see it. We'd be looking & waiting & after about 5 mins he'd drop it behind him "There it is!". Took us years to realise he'd been holding it all the time

I used to think that Santa was actually a sharp-suited sunglasses-wearing businessman in a Manhattan skyscraper for the rest of the year, it was the only possible way he could afford all those toys. Though I was pretty smart for figuring it out.

I also believed until this thread that there was a special dye in swimming pool water...

Ikea I thought that too about sex!

When I 4 I thought that shopkeepers must be very rich because they got to keep all the money spent in the shop.

My Dad convinced me that money was printed as the notes were pushed out of the cashpoint machine, meaning you had to wave the notes to dry the ink before you put them in your wallet. I believed this until I got my first cashpoint card at 17.

I thought that about sperm jumping across the sheets too.

I thought a bugger was a male dog.

I thought Oxon was a place in Oxfordshire.

I thought people who got shot in cowboy films were sad people who volunteered to die.

I thought babies came out of your bottom (didn't realise there were three holes, and the weewee hole was obviously too small)

I used to believe in homeopathy.

I thought Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins were the same person. I thought one played the other, I wasn't sure which way round it was.

That was until I was about 35 and it dawned on me

NoArmani. Why did you think a baby horse was called a cunt? We need to know.

I don't really know. I think I confused the words colt, cunt and foal. I lived a very sheltered life

When we were very young my cousin and I entered a magazine competition to win a boat. We had so little understanding of probability that we were sure we'd win. we had long detailed conversations about how wed share and where wed store it. Not in a "when I win the lottery" way, we were absolutely certain we'd win

When we were very young my cousin and I entered a magazine competition to win a boat. We had so little understanding of probability that we were sure we'd win. we had long detailed conversations about how wed share and where wed store it. Not in a "when I win the lottery" way, we were absolutely certain we'd win

The cat would run away when I went to pick her up, and Mum told me that it was because she knew what I was thinking. After that I always went over to the cat to pick her up while thinking, 'I'm not going to pick you up'. With outstretched arms still of course. I could never figure out why the cat wasn't fooled!

Yes to wombles!
"Wombles of wimbledon, common are we"

when about 10 also thought sperm could swim across the bed so wearing knickers were a contraceptive. my mum fell about laughing.

Ah, the first time I saw a film of Jane Eyre I was like, "Sinjin? Her cousin wasn't called Sinjin in the novel. What kind of name is that anyway?"

When my df was going to the pub and used to say he was going to see a man about a dog.

I would sit by that window and wait for the puppy that I would convince myself he would br g back!

I used to think that if you adopted an animal in the zoo, you got to take them home.

I distinctly remember eyeing up the shed for an elephant....

Darmoc definitely the gorillas kidnapping people not guerrillas. I thought the same. was it in SA in the 70s.

Sometimes I thought maybe I was in a coma and kind of dreaming back my life, so this wasn't actually happening. Or that the bit where your life was meant to flash before your eyes, was the life I was living iyswim?

As a seven year old watching Juliet Bravo (80s tv show about coppers) I was very confused as to how this lady had so many sons. Some who appeared to be very close in age to her. How was this possible? A huge family of coppers?

Took a good few years to get that they were saying "ma'm". Not "mum

Snap! How my Mum laughed.

I used to think it was amazing that sewing pattern makers could always find the right fabric (in photo of finished item) to match the drawing on the front of the pattern. I'm ashamed to admit I was an adult before I realised the drawing was done after!

I still have to remind myself not to say archaeopteryx as arch-io-p-terri-ax.

I always thought a jewel carriageway would be very special to drive on

I got sunburnt a lot as a child. My mum always told me it's because suncream hadn't been invented then.

Until a few years ago I thought suncream had only been developed in the 90's

Generation Google will never understand how scant and inaccessible information was compared to today.

True, that :)

When I saw a Harry Potter film, I found out the girl's name is not pronounced "Hermy Yone".

But if prunes are dried plums, then where does prune juice come from...

I thought Nigel Kennedy was Beethoven. I saw him being introduced on the TV and just heard the word 'Beethoven' then put 2 and 2 together. Then I found out he was dead, which I thought was sad...then I found out quite how dead and had to work out who the imposter was

Generation Google will never understand how scant and inaccessible information was compared to today.