What were your childhood misconceptions?

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I always used to think if a pub said free house it meant you got free beer.

There was this lorry place we used to drive past that always had a sign saying pallets wanted, I always used to think ‘why do they want paint pallets’.

There was a coal fire at my Granny’s house and one day my Dad touched it and I realised it was fake and it never felt as warm after that.

I thought 99’s were so called because they cost 99p if only!

I thought Bill Stickers was a wanted man.

That elbow grease could be bought from a shop.

At 62 I still feel sorry for disabled toilets and wonder if they can't flush.

I thought the same !! I think because he once said ‘I go where the road takes me’ and I thought there was some kind of under the road magnet that pulled cars along and I was always so relieved we ended up somewhere familiar 😂

That several meant seven

I also wondered how collecting foil would make blind dogs see again when I was at brownies

I thought this until I was about 10-11 as did ALL my friends. It was normal thinking for children in the 80s. You got married and then, inexplicably, you 'fell' pregnant.

I thought our money was kept separate at the bank. So when you paid in it went into your own box and when you took money out it was taken from your own box.

I thought 99’s were so called because they cost 99p if only!
I think I may be older than you. I also thought this and my parents hooted with laughter and said I wouldn't be getting one if they cost that much...

"One year the Queen’s official birthday was on my birthday and I thought the Queen and I would share a party."

This reminds me of the little girl who was convinced she would be invited to the royal wedding. (you can see her on YouTube).

I once pointed to the church in our town and asked my mum what it was. She told me it was the Church of England and I thought we were so lucky to have THE Church of England in our little town.

My parents were born on the same day so I grew up thinking you had to marry someone with the same birthday as you.

My daughter when she was little used think those charity adverts for adopting an exotic or wildlife animal meant it actually came to live in your home!

I overheard a Radio4 programme discussing a particular procedure and why they were changing from using general to local anesthetic. I thought local must mean like a local recipie, using herbs and stuff and a general was proper medicine.

i thought my primary school teacher was a very old lady because I saw grey in her hair, it was many years later when i heard she had died and saw her obituary that I worked out she was actually about 32 when she was teaching me!

Once knew a woman called Leah who thought what she wore to gymnastics was her own personal item and couldn't understand why other children also had "leahtards" and not "claretards" or "janetards"

I used to think that the umbilical cord was tied in a knot by the doctor or midwife. I heard it on TV programs etc as needing to be tied so just assumed it was physically knotted rather than clipped. I even remember saying to a friend that our belly buttons were the same so we must have had the same doctor tie them! I don't know when I realised that wasn't the case but I was definitely an adult!!

We scraped school dinner leftovers into a bin.
We were frequently told to "think of the starving children in Africa".
I used to deliberately leave more, so that it could be posted to Africa.

When I was little, I didn't know that there was a place called Wimbledon Common. As a consequence, I though that Wombles were common, as in there were a lot of them:
"The wombles of Wimbledon, common are we."

I think I am too old for 99s to be 99p, but I am sure that 45s were 45p when I was a young teenager.

I had two.

I was born in the v early 1950s, my Mum and Dad in the 20s. I thought everyone had a world war in their future. Not really irrational, as my parents and grandparents did. I often wondered if I'd be a landgirl, like Mum, or a fighter pilot like my uncle.

the other belief is a little more embarrassing. I must have been 10/11/12. Somewhere around that age. I knew a man's penis became erect before intercourse, but imagined the erection must be horizontal. Therefore, to have intercourse, my vagina should have been situated somewhere around my naval. It followed, in my mind, that I was deformed. Oddly, it didn't really upset me that I might be.

I thought Sinn Fein was a man's name as I heard it so often during the early 90s as a kid in the news at 6pm each night. In fact I specifically tbiughy that was Gerry Adams' name as that was the face always on TV when it was said.

When I was in the 6th form, so about 16, I knew the facts of life obviously but I didn't realise people moved during sex. I thought they just lay still with the man inside the woman.

I thought clouds were dead people in heaven

My mum used to say “it’s Wednesday (or any day of the week) all day”, so I thought some days could shared!

I grew up when most people did a big shop and wrote a shopping list. Regularly on the list it used to say 100 rolls. And i
never knew who ate those rolls as we didn’t. It wasn’t until I was a lot older (an adult!) that I realised it was Loo rolls!

That God was called Peter…. As in “thanks Peter God” obv meant to be “thanks be to God”😆

I spent years thinking Enid Blyton was pronounced Gunide Bluton because of the signature on her book covers.

I always though Bognor Regis and Lyme Regis were exotic places. Obviously had never visited them as a child.