What were your assumptions about the world as a child?

[OneUmberJoker]

I thought being rested as in sport star rested meant arrested

I was very concerned that when I was in year 6 (the oldest kids in primary school), I would need to move out of my house as I would be too tall and my head would touch the ceiling. I’m not sure how I thought my parents were coping because their heads definitely didn’t touch the ceiling!

I also must have heard something on television about who was ‘going on top’ to describe sex and for many years(!!) pictured bunk beds.

It's the Neverending Story. I challenge you to watch it and not cry.

I remember noticing a 'love padlock' on a bridge a few years back - one of thousands on there - that said (I forget the first two exact names) but something like 'William & Lisa 4 Eva'.

I thought it sounded like quite an intriguing throuple!

Oh, that’s very sweet. It could still happen! Befriend some writers! I’ve been in quite a few people’s acknowledgements, but it’s slightly misleading because it never says ‘Thank you to MaybeIf, even though you were the one to tell me I needed to rewrite the final 20,000 words…’😀

I'd love a book dedication like that. "Thank you to muffsies for blowing a hole in my plot, you couldn't just suspend your disbelief for 5 minutes, could you?"
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That we'd all be whizzing around on hover boards and in flying cars in the year 2000

I thought the jobs that adults have, all paid roughly the same amount of money. I knew there were some very rich people, but they were in a special category. So I thought everyone else earned more or less the same.
So even when I went to university, it didn't occur to me to think of earning potential when choosing a career. (luckily I'm in STEM).

I thought grown ups were obsessed with money and it’s all they were bothered about.

I wasn’t wrong really 😂.

My dad loved westerns, there was always somebody or a horse and / or carriage sinking into it !

I thought if an adult took their tea black or drank coffee they must be a bad person (only observed my parents drinking tea with milk lol).

When i was about 6, a friend told me about someone being sacked. I didn't understand what they meant so they repeated 'sacked, you know, fired!' I remember asking, 'what, they put him in a sack and shot him?'

Amazingly, the world of work is not quite as bad as I thought it would be.

That it was the wedding ring that got you pregnant! 🤭

I thought teachers lived at school and was really quite shocked to discover they had their own houses and families.