To ask about things you believed as a child that aren’t so...?

[Piglet89]

I was convinced there was a law that meant adults couldn’t argue or fall out.

I thought that divorce was illegal. Which is weird because my parents divorced when I was a baby

I thought money from the cash machine was free but there was an unwritten rule you shouldn't be greedy and take too much.

That spiders didn't like beds. Worked brilliantly, it didn't dawn on me until I was 25 that it was a lie told by my mother to make me get to sleep.

@glowingtwig 😂

As an only child, I thought siblings always (aside from the odd spat) got on really well and would be friends as well as family.

As an adult, I have a partner, a mother, and a number of friends who are NC with their siblings.

@IMNOTSHOUTING

I thought money from the cash machine was free but there was an unwritten rule you shouldn't be greedy and take too much.

My daughter believed for a long time that there was a man sitting in the machine counting out the cash.

My friend told me spiders come to collect their dead, I was about eight, I believed it wholeheartedly and always tried to get my mum / dad / sister to catch spiders in the house and take them outside. It really worried me, I had visions of spiders marching into my room for the dead spider that my sister had splatted with her shoe.

I thought it was illegal to have the inside lights on in the car while you drove.

I thought that the road the Snake Pass was covered with the slithery things, I used to keep my eyes firmly closed as we went over it/

That traffic lights were controlled individually by tiny people who either lived inside them or were in a lookout tower somewhere seeing what the traffic was up to and whether it was time for a 'red'.

I also thought that there was someone real announcing the floors when you went up or down in a lift - probably hidden behind a panel or something.

When Mum would drive us through the countryside, she told us to breath in the smell of manure becauseit was good for our lungs

That llamas had two heads, one in the normal place and one where the arse would be.
That shopkeepers gave away money (change).
That if a man and woman snogged it meant that they would have to get married.

The Channel Tunnel was finished when I was about 6 or so. I remember genuinely thinking that it would be a tunnel which went along the sea bed, not underneath it, and that it would have glass sides or at least windows so that you could see the fish. I was very disappointed with the real thing.

@DinoGreen so glad you've said that, I also thought tunnels were on top of the sea bed! Embarrassingly thought this for many years.
I grew up near Liverpool and we would regularly go through the tunnel to cross the Mersey. I'd often ask my parents why we couldn't see the sea on top by the entrance. I don't think I explained it very well to them when I asked about it, and I don't think they explained the answer very well either, so I remember after a while I stopped asking because they'd just get annoyed 🤦🏻‍♀️ Really makes me laugh now though 😂

I thought my auntie Lily didnt drink anything at all not even water as my mum was getting stuff in for hogmanay and mentioned to my dad "Remember Lily doesnt drink".
She meant alcohol of course but as a 6 year old I wondered how auntie Lily could stay alive.
Oh and I embarrassed another auntie while out with her about the same age by shouting "look there's witches". They were nuns.

I thought cats eyes in the road were actual cats eyes. I was always saddened by the thought of the cats that had to be blinded to create the road lights.

I also thought Doberman dogs were illegal in the UK. My mum told me this to stop my nattering for one.

@ohtherewearethen

Were you remembering the push me pull you creature from the Dr Doolittle story?

I thought that when you were grown up you weren't interested in what you wore, and that any old thing would do. I've no idea why I thought that!

Every time bands of marriage were read in our church, e.g. 'For the third time of asking' I'd think 'Wow, hasn't she said yes yet?'

I didn't understand that cashback was your own money, and thought supermarkets just offered you money for nothing.

As a very small child, when TV screens were still made of glass, I thought that if I broke the screen and climbed through it I'd emerge the other side in the TV programme.

@Ohtherewearethen

That llamas had two heads, one in the normal place and one where the arse would be. That shopkeepers gave away money (change). That if a man and woman snogged it meant that they would have to get married.

Would that be from the doctor Doolittle book? I seem to recall there was an animal like that?

I used to think the Heavy plant crossing signs were meant for large living plants crossing the road not heavy machinery!

@Ohtherewearethen

That llamas had two heads, one in the normal place and one where the arse would be. That shopkeepers gave away money (change). That if a man and woman snogged it meant that they would have to get married.

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I thought it was illegal to have the inside lights on in the car while you drove.

I tell my kids this now as I used to believe it too.