Silly stuped things your younger self thought was true 🤪😳

[Justjackie]

I will go first...first job after leaving school..thought you paid tax then at end of year got it all back! I thought it was some kind of loan to the government 😳 heard mam and dad mention getting '-tax-back' over the years and thought that was what happened!

I also thought cats were girls and dogs boys.
Regarding gay sex I thought that as they didn’t have a hole (anal never entered my head) that they just sort of pushed it against each other.
During a news report if it was said that a man was helping police with their enquiries, I thought that a random man quite literally walked into a police station and said ‘I’ll help you’.
Up until my twenties I thought ladies wee’d from their clits.

I thought that when you moved house you had to leave behind all of your own furniture and toys etc and take on the furniture and toys of the house you bought.

My DS was desperate for a sibling, and brought the subject up frequently. Finally I sat him down and explained, "We can't afford to have another baby." He was horrified, "You don't PAY for babies!"

@TedMullins

I used to think pay as you go mobile phones had to be physically filled with coins, like putting them in a money box. I’m SURE I saw my uncle sat at a table with a pile of coins in front of him putting them in his phone! But he must have been doing something else.

Thought Dunkirk was in Ireland, I still can’t get my head around it being in France. I got very confused learning about WWI at school

World war 2

Not me but my cousin - born in 1979, she thought only women could be Prime Minister.

She didn't find out the truth till John Major replaced Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

I thought a hermaphrodite had both outer sexual organs and wondered if they tried to have sex with themself. I'm 40 and only learned the reality about 10 years ago!

@DogsAreShit

Yy Glamorgan and Dunkirk were in Scotland. Penrith was in Wales. Middlesbrough was in the Midlands. (Why the fuck else would it have the word "middle" in it?)

I can beat you on that, I only realised at 28 that the Midlands were in the middle kinda section of the country.

@skirk64

"Drink driving" meant people drinking while they were actually driving, i.e. had a glass of red wine sitting on the dashboard.

Me too...

@MadameBoulaye

I only realised 2 days ago that “the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain” and not “plane”!! We would go to Spain for holidays when I was little and mum would always say it, so I thought it was a saying for holidaymakers, that the rain would only fall on the plane, ready for it being hot and sunny when we arrived! Jeez!

Waiiittt a minute. Right up until this second I thought it was plane. But I thought it was just a joke thing people said because its usually hot in Spain. That being said, I've only been once and the only rain we had was on the plane as we left alicante Airport to go home!

I also used to think that our local newsagent printed the papers and magazines to order at the back of the shop. My mum sent me one day when I was 7 or 8 to collect our (prepaid) papers and comics. I forgot to tell the chap that we had pre ordered and politely asked for a Daily Express, a Twinkle and a Tracy. He put the first two on the counter and said "sorry no Tracys left for sale". I just smiled politely and waited, thinking that he was waiting for the printer to run off a new one in the back room. I was there some time - he must have been very uncomfortable but suddenly twigged "oh you are from number 26, wait a minute" and went and got the pre-ordered Tracy from the back room, which unfortunately just fed my misapprehension.

It was many years later that I remembered that shop visit and realised with acute embarrassment what a pillock of a child I had been.

I thought there were loads of triplets, because we had a set in my small village primary school class.
I am not sure I have met any since.

I also thought that the people in the tv watched us in the same way we watched them haha.

I honestly thought that men “ going for the chop” would have their balls cut off. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I found out!

That to get pregnant, the man had to put his tongue in the lady's mouth - I was so proud announcing this to my parents aged 9!!

I think a lot of us must have had the same sex ed book in the 80s
And the man slips his penis into her vagina.
Green front cover.
I didn't know there was movement either.

That several meant 7 of something exactly 7.
I found out when I was 16 and put my hand up in A level theatre studies to say ‘actually miss I think you find there’s more than 7 I can think of at least 10’
😂😂 absolute idiot

I also didn’t realise period were blood I assumed it was thick leaking water like the adverts
Absolute 🍩

@LadySinfiaSnoop

I honestly thought that men “ going for the chop” would have their balls cut off. It wasn’t until I was in my 30s that I found out!

What does it mean then?

@MiddletownDreams I thought exactly the same! My friend told me her mum was on the pill and I couldn't work out why she'd need it as you wouldn't have sex without knowing would you!

I also go confused by the he's sleeping with you thing as couldn't work out the issue, just two people sleeping in bed together 🤣

That Bristol was in wales (my home) 🙄😂

@1starwars2

I thought there were loads of triplets, because we had a set in my small village primary school class. I am not sure I have met any since.

I live in a smallish town of around 3,000 people. We have 3 sets of triplets that I'm aware of. All 3 sets are all-boys. One set is identical twins and a single, the other 2 are all singles.

@Thebearsbunny

I also thought cats were girls and dogs boys. Regarding gay sex I thought that as they didn’t have a hole (anal never entered my head) that they just sort of pushed it against each other. During a news report if it was said that a man was helping police with their enquiries, I thought that a random man quite literally walked into a police station and said ‘I’ll help you’. Up until my twenties I thought ladies wee’d from their clits.

I remember telling my Mum that I wanted to help the police with their enquiries - I thought it meant knocking on doors and asking people questions on behalf of the police.

When I was very young, I heard some adult conversation about marriages being annulled, and I thought that meant that the Government could just decide to send officers round to people's houses and tell couples, 'Your marriage is null - get out of this house!' I was a bit scared that they might do this to my parents.

I thought that everyone, including adults, gets taller with age.

LudoBear they cut the 'pipes' inside. So make then infertile but intact.

@Twernip I believed that about the tide too. I was a teacher but thankfully when planning the science lesson my fellow teacher put me right.

So embarrassing

A relative of a friend of mine found out at age 26 she didn't need to take a tampon out to wee.
She had to be told its a differnet hole