To ask what you thought was weird as a child (lighthearted)

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What things do you remember from childhood that you thought were weird, even though they're perfectly normal to adults?

Bicycles staying upright, even though they only have two wheels.
How you stop noticing certain sensations (such as the clothes on your body) after a while: I remember pondering this aged four.
Puddles not being there the next day.

We had this recently with youngest DD. She couldn’t get her head around her birthday being the first of the year in the family but she is the youngest.

How the music I wanted to hear, knew to go into my radio. It really baffled me as a child.

Car boot sales.

I wondered what had happened to all the people’s original car boots.

When a person refers to themselves in third person, i know its how people often talk to young children..but i remember meeting my aunt i only ever saw like once a year and them going

"this is aunt bla bla room, this was aunt bla bla favourite toy"

i got so confused and was like "well wheres aunt bla bla then?".

"I'm Aunt bla bla"...

I was so spun out, i just didnt get it.

Signs saying “To Let”.

I was convinced for years that they meant “toilet” but the I had dropped off. When my parents disabused me of this I thought they were being spoilsports.

Yes! I remember years ago some neighbours were having a party and playing the extended version of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”. The one with the sax solo.

I’d never heard a longer version of a pop song before and I told my mum David Bowie was in next door’s garden.

Erm

Until now I had no idea that's what it meant

Rather embarrassing

I'd get annoyed when my teacher said "several" when talking about a number of things that wasn't 7

That when “the clock goes forward and we lose an hours sleep”, I thought this meant that we lose an hours sleep every night until the clocks went back again.
I couldn’t really get my head around it and just sort of nodded along 😂

I thought catarrh was “guitar” (in fairness to me, I was partially deaf). But for an embarrassingly long tim. I thought it weird it had the same name as an instrument but just thought it was one of those strange English language things.

I can remember my mum telling me that gravy was made using the boiling water strained from the peas. For some reason this struck me as absolutely and completely unbelievable. For years I thought she was joking.

I thought that periods started on the first day of each month. I remember getting my first period in the middle of August. I was convinced that there was something wrong with me because it wasn't the first day of the month. I was confused about thunder. When it thundered i thought that my neighbours were moving their furniture about.

I used to be really confused at how Cliff Richard could still sing when he couldn’t talk anymore.

When my dad would ask to borrow my pocket money for change for milk or bread on the way past the the corner shop saying he'd 'give it back'.

He always did pay me back later, but I wondered how he had it still after spending it...

I couldn't figure out where the traffic light men sat at country intersections. Obviously, in cities they were in one of the surrounding offices, looking to see which lights needed to go green next, but where they were in the countryside totally baffled me. In a similar vein, I always used to get very frustrated with traffic light men when the traffic was backed up in one particular direction. Couldn't they see they needed to let the lights stay green longer for that direction, so it would clear faster?!

The expression “frowned upon”. I would picture everyone in a room simultaneously scowling at the offending party. Also “sent to Coventry” - I took it very literally and thought it very odd that Coventry has been chosen as a place of punishment.

How my aunt could be my dad’s sister. Or that my nan was his mum. My dad’s family was us, not some random woman!

Penny sweets

going to the shop with my “penny”-a £1 coin and deciding to not buy one of the tiny sweets that would cost the whole penny. My mind would’ve been blown if I knew I could’ve had 100 of them

I thought that we were the only people in the car and that all the other cars were empty and driving themselves.

Driving home at night after a day out, I asked my dad why the moon was following us. I was also baffled by the ticking noise (indicators) and had no idea where it came from or what it was 😂

Flammable and inflammable being the same thing

I don't think I ever got my head round the clocks going back or forward. I mean I understand it now but it still seems to break my brain working it out!

When I was little I didn't understand calling my parents mum and dad. It just seemed really rude to call them by a 'job' rather then their names so I called them by their first names from the age of 5.😁

The first time I went to the beach I ran down to the sea in my new costume and a big wave came in and splashed all over me. I took my costume off and ran back to my mum. She asked why I had taken it off. I said it got wet. Much laughing all round as she explained it was supposed to.

I still wonder that, but woth regards to a deposit ( which is probably the same now as a whole mortgage 30 years ago)

I remember being very disappointed when I realised you couldn’t just drive wherever you wanted on a motorway and that you had to drive in lines (lanes). I used to think you drove just wherever there was a gap and not in any organised way. My mum and dad also used to point out the lights ‘in the distance’ which I thought was a specific place. It’s weird what sticks with you….

My daughter asked me this exact question 😂