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.

@rosebud5678

Every time bands of marriage were read in our church
Or even Banns? 😂

When I was young, I thought that the child models in shops were real children who had stood on something and had been turned into models.

I was quite scared of where I stood in clothes shops.

(I was very young)

@ComDummings

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

I was told this as a kid too.

My mum told me if I chewed my hair I would end up with a massive hair ball in my stomach.

That if you looked at the sun for 3 seconds you would go blind.

If you looked directly into those little red laser pen things then you go blind.

Eating the crusts of your toast made your hair curly.

That if the Rev meter on a car went into the red that the car would explode!

I thought thought the paper in a fax machine was rolled up and went down the wires to the other fax machine, blew my mind when I found out that wasn't the case!

@Elfieishere

That if you looked at the sun for 3 seconds you would go blind.

If you looked directly into those little red laser pen things then you go blind.

Eating the crusts of your toast made your hair curly.

That if the Rev meter on a car went into the red that the car would explode!

TBF - looking into the sun isn't a good idea. I am not sure how long it would take though.

I thought "keep away from fire" labels in my knickers were just friendly general advice. I'd sometimes pass it on to others and tell them to keep away from fire in a knowing voice.

I also believed every animal went through evolution in the course of a lifetime and was excited for the day our cat would become a lioness

When pubs advertised free house and pool
I thought the drinks were few and there was a swimming pool could
Never understand why we couldn't have as many drinks as we wanted and go swimming!

And I also thought only people
Who were deaf were called
Monica. The only Monica I knew was deaf

@ruokhon unlikely but not impossible www.thesun.co.uk/news/9182626/huge-hairball-girl-stomach-rapunzel-syndrome/

(Excuse the 'Sun', it was the first link).

@chomalungma - I agree! Although I don’t remember ever staring at the sun a lot and I have no idea why I was told 3 seconds.

My grandad explained the 1997 general election to four year old me by saying that John Major and Tony Blair were having a big fight in town (where our polling station was). I believed for quite a while that this was how prime ministers were decided and felt quite honoured that they chose our town to have a punch up in.
What's odd is that I was told a lot about politics as a child but just didn't put it together that months of campaigning and manifestos were a bit pointless if you were just going to have a fistfight.

Did I mention that I always thought it was 'bands' of marriage rather than 'banns'?!

I was brought up to think god was real.
I worked it out for myself when I was 13.

@LadyTiredWinterBottom2 I think water you wash with in some old houses can come from old pipes which isn't good to drink.

Drinking water pipes are special ones for the kitchen tap.

My DH thinks this is bollocks. But I don't drink out the bathroom taps & tell my DC not to do this.

DH has always done it and appears to be fine so far age 40 🤷🏻‍♀️

I thought that when the time was right God gave every lady a baby and would make it grow in their belly. I wish it was true .

Or maybe it's something about the water tank?

I thought a broken arm or leg meant the limb would literally be in two pieces.

I also thought that when a radio DJ played a record, the band were playing the song live in an empty theatre.

There was a big news story about a prostitute when I was little and I asked my mum what a prostitute was. She (correctly) told me it was a woman who sells her body. Cue more images of dismembered limbs as I assumed she sold it bit by bit. My mum was delighted when I declared I definitely didn't want to be prostitute when I grew up

My sister thought that guerrillas were... trained fighting gorillas...

[quote SOmuchsparkle]@LadyTiredWinterBottom2 I think water you wash with in some old houses can come from old pipes which isn't good to drink.

Drinking water pipes are special ones for the kitchen tap.

My DH thinks this is bollocks. But I don't drink out the bathroom taps & tell my DC not to do this.

DH has always done it and appears to be fine so far age 40 🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]
I think the different pipes was the difference between hot and cold water (as opposed to kitchen or bathroom water) which is why the UK has come relatively late to mixer taps.

The water in our bathroom was much nicer to drink when I was growing up.

So, it's not illegal to drive with your internal car lights on then?

All of the above 😂
My mum used to say everyone had a number and when god called your number, it was your time to die, for years I was worried he was going to call my number

That God is real.

When my grandpa died my grandma was going through some old things and pulled out letters he had written to her during WW2 when he was abroad.

Because it was all ‘i miss you’ ‘it’s very strange here’ ‘i don’t know when/if we will be together again’ ‘Don’t worry about me - I’m with my pals’... I thought he’d sent letters from heaven. I was only 3 at the time!