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.

In amused at the moment that my granddaughter cannot fathom that her mummy was once my baby. She’s in such shock lol

I thought everything on the radio was being broadcast live.
I thought adults who were superstitious were silly.
I used to wonder if the universe had edges, and if it was in a shoebox under God's bed.

@TamarindCottage i remember noticing how the moon seems to “follow” you when you move.

I thought rainbows were a weird thing that only appeared in books, until I saw a real one (and loved it).

I used to have a lot of trouble with idioms. My poor ds is similar and got so upset when I had flu last month and said I feel like I’m dying. Another example is someone described him as yummy they could eat him up- he was terrified

i Genuinely believed my mother when she said mothers know everything. Didn’t understand why we bothered with school if I’d just know it all when I became a mother

On caravan holidays once a year my parents would get a meal called 'tay Ka way' I thought this was something only for adults as I never ate it, I forget what they fed me.

One I forgot about until my sister reminded me a few weeks ago, as a child I would sit and look through photo albums, of my sister & brother growing up (they were 13 & 11 years older than me) our parents etc, apparently I would sit and sob for hours, wailing "but WHY AREN'T I IN THE PICTURES" 😂🤦

Why it's "aren't I" rather than "amn't" I when we don't say "are I not". Maybe some pendants can explain!

Also, at friends' houses, adults would instruct me "say when" when pouring a drink. I thought they meant me to say the actual word "when" and didn't get it at all. Only years later did I realise that it was a shortened way of telling me to "say when to stop pouring".

I also couldn't understand why I and my sibling had to go to bed so much earlier than the adults, especially at weekends. My mum told me that she and my dad needed time together. Had no idea why they needed time without us!

Life seemed very complicated.

That adults still have parents. All of my grandparents passed away before I was born/was too young to remember them so I assumed adults didn’t have parents. I remember a teacher (when I was around the age of 5) mentioning her parents and it blew my mind!

Oh and I also thought that when you were watching a TV programme that the people on the TV show we also watching you.

Me too! I was vaguely scared of “heavy” plant crossing in particular.

I used to think that when films etc were in black and white, it was because the world was black and white. I spent a long time wondering what the evolution from colour would be and concluded that eventually the world would be fluorescent because fluorescent crayons were just the most exciting things ever.

That my parents thought dragging me to a garden centre every weekend was some form of entertainment for me 🙄🤣

That is very poignant and just shows how rational children really are.

I thought when people’s parents went to work they all went to the same place. Also couldn’t understand why some people called it a taxi and some people called it a cab.

I thought any programmes shown on satellite TV were filmed on a spaceship.

Because you're shortening "are not I". The apostrophe takes the place of the missing o.

I never thought the storybook illustrations of giants were giant enough..Surely giants would have fingers as wide as a 200 year old oak trees and have their heads in the clouds. I was also frustrated when the Dads Army arrow on the credits always went the same direction eack week.

Why planes looked so small in the air and how do people fit in to the them.

I have this memory of running around in a field and looking up at the sky, and I was perplexed about how people fit in to these teeny little planes that kept flying overhead 😂.

Obviously this was before I grasped that when something is far away it looks smaller.

I thought in every couple the man is older than the woman. I think it’s because my dad is older than my mum. And my Grandad is older than my Grandma.

Leap years. I didn't understand why the extra quarter day every year didn't have an impact on the time of day eg if it was 5pm in Jan why was the same time not, for example, 5.06pm in Dec (I'm not explaining this very well and actually am not entirely sure what I'm trying to say lol).

Why Michael Fish & his weather forecasting freinds kept making it rain! Why couldn't they just make it sunny, rain only at night, and snow in winter, rather than making the weather so crappy?

When I was 7 I thought people had normal jobs in this country (UK) but if they wanted a proper, serious, long job, they had to move to Korea.

I thought any mountain was potentially a volcano and could blow up at any time.

I found a dried up, dead seahorse on a beach and I was convinced it had been the king of the seahorses because it looked like it had a crown.

I thought it was really odd that people spoke other languges. I thought they were just having to translate it into English in their head, so they might as well have just spoken English to each other.

Someone at our school thought he was singing:

"Piss off, honey"

Now, we don't talk anymore...

I thought that rashers were made from pigs ears, as in one pig would yield 2 slices 🤣.
I also thought that when seeing anyone on the TV that they were actually inside the set. I was very tempted to smash the screen once to get into Jason Donovan 🤣

I was baffled by an episode of Fawlty Towers in which the hotel inspector came and the hotel staff were panicking because the cat was in the kitchen. Our cat ate in our kitchen every day and no one batted an eyelid. I'd been to other houses where the cats (and dogs) ate in the kitchen too.

I thought society was like a big pretend game in which the grown-ups just decided amongst themselves who would do what. E.g. "you can be the boat driver and we'll be the people on the boat".

I couldn't understand what my dad did with the vast sums of money he drew out from the cashpoint - £100 a time! I spent about 50p a week on sweets.

I couldn't work out when "the mean time" was. An older girl at infant school once made a dark reference to someone doing something naughty "in the mean time". It sounded sinister.

Also, I thought that time was organised wrong and the time we got up should be called 1am, not 7am. Fairly recently, I found out that this is very similar to the way time is counted in Ethiopia.