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.

@MakeOrBake I was wondering about rhotic and non rhotic accents I think.

In some accents, people add an "r" where there isn't an "r" in my accent. And miss out an "r" where there would be one in mine. So "awe" and "ore" don't rhyme in my accent but do in others

But yes I can see what you are saying about dialect rather than accent. We do have the ability to say"mn" in Scottish English.

I thought that women were only legally allowed to marry men that were both taller and older than them.

Just remembered- when we moved into a new house the man who lived across from us was a famous-ish footballer. His son asked me if I wanted his dad’s autograph. I didn’t want to admit:

1. I didn’t know what an autograph was.
2. We didn’t have whatever it was.

So I said, ‘No thanks, my dad has his own’.

I used to think that the TV or radio stopped when you switched if off, and the program would still be there when you switched back on. and would get annoyed at my mum for finishing listening to a song or watching sonething while i was at school.

I remember hiding behind a sofa watching a 12 rated film (before the 12A was introduced) when I was young because I thought I was going to get arrested for breaking the law.

oh yes, these! I knew they were supposed to say To Let, but i couldn’t understood how anyone took them seriously as they so obviously looked like the comically rude word “toilet”.

I spent up to age 12 thinking that “primary colours” were grey, navy and white. Because those were the colours of the school uniform at my primary school. I think my brain also knew about “the primary colours” but I hadn’t quite connected them yet.

I nearly put my hand up to answer the teacher in year 7 art class, who asked who knew the primary colours in a lesson intro. But thank god my brain started thinking “hang on, we all went to different primary schools, their school colours were green, grey and white - how would that work? …..? Ooohhhhhh!!!”

I thought that the teachers lived in the school, literally never went home. Maybe some will declare they actually don't!

As a kid of the 80s, living in a house on a main road, I remember hearing musical car horns all the time going past the house. It was always the same tune

I always wondered how people coped with generally being an adult, such as how are bills paid, how do they remember to do everything, how does food get on the table etc. I moved out at 18 and quickly realised how stressful adult life can be!

I remember when I found out that it rains because of clouds and weather systems. I was flabbergasted as I'd assumed that rain was completely random and no one knew why/how it happened. I'd thought that all of the world was completely random and inexplicable, so I guess I discovered science on that day. It's strange to me now that some things are seemingly very knowable and other things aren't (or aren't yet).

Pirate radio, older db listened to it, or so he said - but they just played pop not sea shanties

I always wondered who Bill Posters was and why he was going to be prosecuted.

Flea markets. Five year old me wondered why the hell anyone would want to buy and sell fleas.

When you heard on the news that a person had been arrested and taken into custody - i thought that Custody was a town where all naughty people were taken

I remember we had a child from China come to our school. Me and my friend genuinely thought if we just went "hichingchongchuchaahwananingnog" that she would perfectly understand us, that we would magically be speaking perfect chinese.

We were only 5 or 6.

Although I was very sceptical of things like Father Christmas being real, there was one "pretend" thing that really blew my mind. My parents occasionally did the trick of lifting me up while I sat in a chair, telling me I was flying, and describing the tiny scenery below me. I was blindfolded so I couldn't see what was actually happening, but it really felt like flying! My mind was blown when I learned later that they had only lifted my chair a few inches off the ground, and once, they managed to make me "fly" from one end of the garden to the other. I didn't learn until years later how they did that magic.

I guess fresh peas gave the water some flavour. My mum always used the sprout water for gravy.

Was just about to post this!

Hearing the news presenters on the radio talk about "members of the public" and wondering how one becomes part of this obviously elite group of people called "the public".

Wondering why my parents immediately offered a drink to all adults who visited our house - do you suddenly become more thirsty when you grow up?

Going to a Catholic primary school they were very big on the " true " meaning of Xmas and Easter i couldn't get my head around like Jesus' being born in December at Xmas and was a new born baby, yet just 2/3 months at Easter later he was put to death on the cross and was an adult.

My sister taught infants for 25 years she said some kids would be very surprised if they bumped into her at the weekend ,that not only did she not live in the school but she had her own children 😂

There was a lot of news about guerilla attacks (overseas) on the news.

I thought we had gorillas in our attic who might attack me on my way to the upstairs toilet.

That we live on this big round thing floating around in space.

My daughter thought when parents were dropped at that station to go to work the station was where they all worked…