What misconceptions did you have as a child?

[Geekster1963]

I always used to think that a 99 Ice cream was called that because it cost 99p. If only it did cost that now. I used to think Pubs that said ‘free house’ on them meant you got free drinks.

That 'long vehicles ' read long 'vintage ' like wine...

I thought several of these including the earwigs one thanks big bro and that sex without protection would almost certainly result in pregnancy i wish .

I also thought that babies came out of the bum hole, and as I was generally top of the class in primary school, the other girls assumed I was right.

I also remember another girl telling me that older siblings were brothers and younger siblings were sisters.

When my parents said they were going to a meeting, they were going to eat meat

I thought dogs were male and cats were female

These are so cute

I can’t remember any of mine though!

When I was at school paddley my friend was older than me and her birthday is in September and mine is in July and I just couldn’t believe she was older than me when September is after July! Of course she was born the year before me but we argued about it a lot I just didn’t believe her.

When we were about 11, a group of us found a condom on the playing field. Much hilarity ensued, but I had no idea what it was and why it was so funny. I asked my best friend, but she wouldn't tell me in front of the others, only later.

When she did tell me, apparently it was to hold a man and woman together during sex.

I thought that for a good year or so!

For some reason I thought that the Royal Pavilion in Brighton was Buckingham Palace.

When we drove through a tunnel with lights my parents said I had ‘eyes like saucers’ I completely misunderstood and it took them ages to understand why I shouted ‘I like sausages!’ Every time we went through a tunnel.

Until I was about 9 years old,I used to think that the sign boards outside houses or shops saying 'To let' said 'Toilet'.

Just thought of a couple more. Until I was about 7,I thought that all dogs had rabies! I'd seen a terrifying TV programme about the disease when I was about 5 and consequently,I was scared of dogs. It was only after some gentle probing from my DM that I admitted why I was so scared of them and she was at great pains to reassure me.

Another one was when I'd just started school,aged 5. A boy in my class lived next door-but-four to us and was called Stewart. His DM asked if I wanted to go round to play with Stewart. I misunderstood and thought she was asking me round for some 'stew'! . I was most disappointed when my DM came to take me home and the 'promised' stew still hadn't materialised!

I used to think there was a man in the photo booth machines.

I also believed most people were married by 25 with 2 kids and a white picket fence, that the Father worked and Mother stayed at home baking bread and cookies.

Growing up is definitely an eye opener!

For years (embarrassingly until I was about 14) I thought that the sign 'Beer Garden' outside pubs actually said 'Bear Garden'! Christ only knows what I imagined THAT to be!

When I first learnt about 'The facts of life' and how babies were made,for some strange reason I assumed that a man and a woman always had sex standing up,face to face! Quite tricky I would imagine. It never occurred to me that they may lie down to 'do it'!

I thought a 99 cost 99p too. I thought when a house was advertised for sale with "no chain" it meant no chain on the door.

I thought that Johnny got Penny pregnant - Oh, Robbie you dog!! I also thought Baby learnt to dance over the course of a summer, how the hell did she supposedly learn all that in a week?!?! Had no idea what the dodgy doctor did, that was eye opening as an adult.

Dirty Dancing

I though 100p was a lot of money

I thought that adults could do whatever they wanted. They had no rules or restrictions and nobody ever told them off.

I used to think gas works and power stations were prisions with a little door at the bottom.
The thin ones i still thought all the prisioners were kinda like pilled in?!

Not mine but DD2. She though that the protestant religion came about so that prostitutes could go to heaven. She thought she should be able to breathe underwater and was 'having some difficulty' mastering it and also she thought NASA could see her in the shower via satellites so for months she showered in her swimsuit until I caught her.

I thought that God's first name was Peter. Seriously.

In church we said 'Thanks be to God' and I misheard as 'Thanks Peter God'

Also thought that it was Peter bread that you ate with hummus & dips. Obviously had a thing about the name Peter. And an obviously Catholic, middle class upbringing...

Oh these are so funny - I love the fire fighters standing on the tower to watch for fires!

That because Margaret Thatcher was a woman, women were as important and powerful as men,

I was told that carrots make you see in the dark. Also Santa existed as well. When I was eight I started doubting my mom.

When small I also thought babies came out of your belly button. When my mum gave me the (abbreviated) truth, I kept asking her what would happen if the postman came. She was understandably puzzled, but for some reason I imagined it would be done in the morning on the kitchen table (plenty of room and good light) and they’d be in nightie and pyjamas sat up with their legs wide open so their bits would reach. In our village house, the kitchen stable door was unlocked all day and the postman just opened the top half and leaned in to put the post on the worktop.

I used to think whoever got up first in the morning decided which side of the road everybody would drive on that day!

I used to think that 'Under Offer' sign on houses for sale meant that they were looking for offers under the asking price because it wouldn't sell.

Carrots help u c in the dark

Milk made u grow tall, I hated drinking milk.