Misunderstandings you had as a child

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When I was little, there was a florist near my house. It had beautiful displays of flowers, and I used to spend ages looking in the window. What I really wanted to do was save my 20p a week pocket money and buy my Mum some flowers. Not just any flowers but the ones that said ‘Mum’ on them. I was in my teens before I realised these were for funeral cars . Luckily for my mum, there was a sweet shop next door where I spent my 20p on sweets every week so I never even asked!

I used to think that we had the Ice Age, Bronze Age, Sone Age & now we're living in the Staen Age - wondering what a 'Staen' was. It was only later that I realised that my grandmother was actually saying 'In this Day and Age' 😂

Ds used to shout at his big sisters that I was "his Mummy first". He did have some sort of argument that in the place where babies wait to be born he chose me before they did though.

In our area it was very common for a "To Let" sign to have an i graffitied in the middle so it read "Toilet".

@PrincessFiorimonde I had similar thoughts on "a man is helping police with his enquiries". Only being a very keen child detective book reader, I decided that he'd probably done it and was trying to lead the police astray.

I thought that the curtains on the front of the house had to be shut because the body of the deceased would be visible in the hearse as it passed by. My Mum only explained that the curtain closing was a mark of respect after I went completely hysterical when asked by her to nip to the local shop three doors away to buy some milk when a funeral procession was due. The horror!

I used to think you could choose the last name of your husband, (well you obviously can in a way) so when I was five, I told my mum I was going to marry a Mr Peacock so I could be called Mrs Peacock. I didn't marry a Mr Peacock lol.

I was raised baptist and the only reference I had for the word "minister" was a church minister. I cams home from school one day excited to tell my mother that our teacher had told us about the minister of her church who was a woman - her name was "Margaret Thatcher"! My mum not only had to explain the difference between "prime" minister and "church" minister, but also that my teacher didn't have a minister at all as she was a Muslim!

Some of these are loveky to read! ☺️

when I was very little, I thought that ‘chicken’ (as in, the meat) was not the same as ‘chicken’ the animal 🐓- the same way that ‘flour’ (to bake with) is not the same as ‘flower’

Just adding to this -

DD1, upon being shown the estate agents where we'd bought our house, asked was it very heavy when we took it home?

Locally, we have a bus company called Blue Star which used to have a logo with fancy cursive writing so the name "bluestar" on all their vehicles was all joined together. I heard my twins arguing about it -
"Why does that bus say British Ears on it?"
"It's because it's full of British people and they all have British ears."

Obviously, we now refer to the bus company as British Ears and will never let them live it down.

I always thought of the Triffids!

I'm from Barnsley and for years I thought my grandparents went North't Broads (north of the broads) for their holiday. Until one day I saw TV program about the Norfolk Broads. I used to wonder what the Broads were North of.

I thought pneumonia was Umonia- as that was what my Mum said!

When I was younger.

I thought people grew and grew until and an adult and then shrunk down again when elderly.

I think it was because I saw a programme called land of the giants and the adults were all really small.

They do- I’ve lost 2 inches in height!

When I was younger I used to believe everyone on the TV was an actor and it was all fake.

Even a guy with a physical disability on a news report he had really short arms and legs. But I didn't believe it was real and he must have been an actor.

I used to think babies came out of the belly button.

When I was pregnant with ds2, ds1 (aged under 2) thought he’d be able to see him, if he peered through in my belly button, @Finteq.

I'm in my late 60's and can completely relate to all of this. I don't think I've ever really recovered from the Bay of Pigs. Sometimes to this very day when I see lightening I freeze momentarily thinking they've dropped the bomb.

My sister is nearly 9 years older than me and used to tell me all sorts of nonsense.

I used to go about saying I wanted to be a nun because she'd told me that monks and nuns never die 🙄

I used to think the song Amazing Grace was all about my Aunty Grace. My teacher taught us the song and I said to her So a lot of people must agree Grace is truly Amazing and I then said She has always been a lovely Aunty so I like singing about her. My teacher must have been a bit puzzled.

When I was very small and trying to make sense of the world I used to think adults were assigned colours of men they could cross the road to. We were a green family and we had to wait for the green man but others people could cross on red.
I was very confused when I asked another adult what colour man they cross to and they said purple.

Did you ever read 'The Day of the Triffids'? I always think about Triffids taking over the world when I see these signs. 😁

Snap!

Yes - I think I’d read it before ever seeing the signs (my parents were late to motoring) so they always amused me.

I thought Ilkley Moor was "by" somewhere called "Tat".

I went to church and thought everyone said thanks PETER God not thanks be to God, just figured he was called Peter!

i went to primary school in Yorkshire, I thought assembly was called TAssembly because everyone kept saying going t’ssembly 😄

after watching the three musketeers films I apparently refused to go to France on holiday because I thought it was at war and we’d get poked with swords

Surely that was much more frightening than what the current situation is. Especially as past leaders have since said on record they'd never have actually done it although obviously they couldn't say so at the time, but we know that now.