Random things you believed as a child light hearted

[NimbleHiker]

I thought that my neighbours were moving their furniture about when it thundered. I thought that the moon was made of cheese. I thought that periods started on the first day of each month.

I thought the letter of the alphabet after K was 'elameno' (L, M, N, O as one letter said very quickly)

Double U is polysyllabic, elameno sounded plausible.

I was talking to a school pupil only two weeks ago who was researching the FB and explained the trains’ journey to me exactly thus! I bet loads of people thought the same!

It isn't at all, just annoying.
My sister found this out last week aged 34 when I told her kids there are reading lights in the back of my car they could use!

I believed there was a ghost in my bedroom and was scared, but if I slept on my side and pulled the duvet right up over my ear, but not covering my face, that would mean it wouldn’t be able to get me.

Im 44 and still sleep like this every night, although I’m fairly confident the ghosts can actually get me still 😉

I remember writing about how my parents liked Countrian Western music and was really cross with my primary school teacher who corrected it to Country and Western. She clearly didn't know what she was talking about 😂

We adopted my younger brother when I was six . At 11 I had an argument at school because she said babies came from god and I was adamant they came from a big house in London where you picked them .

My dad used to call me Princess and when I was very little (probably around 3) I thought that meant he was the king and my mum was the queen.

That if you swallowed an apple seed a tree would grow inside you.

When around 11 the teacher was telling us about periods (1980. I hadn't started nor had any of my close friends) I thought when it did start there would be a massive gush and blood all over the floor and I was terrified I d start mine in class and everyone would know.

Still sort of believed this up to 13 when I started without any massive drama even after a few friends started and weren't writhing around in pools of blood.

That when you go to sleep you go off to Neverland. Was always disappointed not to meet Peter pan and tinkerbell (age about 7).

Worse when I was around that age people would avoid mentioning someone had died to children and say they d "gone to sleep but can't wake up anymore ". I was a terrible sleeper anyway and would lie in bed scared to sleep in case it happened to me.

My friend thought that if the ice cream van was playing music it meant he had run out of ice creams. Quite inventive of her mother I suppose but wouldn't work for me as I always want one too!

I thought that America was a great big shopping centre. I was disappointed to learn that it was a country.

This is absolutely true. See also: haggis

I thought any TV programmes shown on satellite TV were filmed on spaceships.

That the hazard warning button in the car was a rear ejector seat (my brother told me this and I believed it for an embarrassingly long time)

That you got pregnant when a man and woman rubbed tummies. If my parents hugged I tried to force myself between them so their tummies wouldn't touch

I think it is.
I also thought that because I could see the people on telly then they must be able to see me too. And spent a good long while holding a grudge against the late Terry Wogan because I waved at him once during an episode of his chat show and he never waved back.

I went to a church school, and one day when I was 4 or 5 a nun visited. A child asked why she’d become a nun, and she said she’d been « called by God ». For about ten years after I was terrified that God would « call me » as I really didn’t want to be a nun! In the same vein, I worried about the end of the world, and particularly the « four horsemen of the apocalypse ! » whenever I saw horses, I’d be jittery worrying whether there’d be four!!

Catholic school

'And forgive us our trespasses' I thought was 'forgive our Frosties' and thought froasties cereal was special as it was the Lord's Prayer.

another prayer one

Hail Mary, I thought we said 'blessed now we go swimming' not 'blessed art thou amongst women', and we said it on a Tuesday morning as we had swimming every Tuesday afternoon.

I thought a 7 a side rugby team had 8 players.
A rugby team has 15 players so if you put 7 or them aside you are left with 8 players.
Made perfect sense.

Even funnier when the Welsh word for multiple children is "Plant" so I had visions of plump kids crossing the road!

I thought that the builder of the house we lived on was a giant who bestrode the estate at night and peered through the loo window at people having a wee. He was so real to me that on the odd occasion when I did get up in the night I used to crookedly so I could see the window behind me.

My dad told me those self-propelled spinning signs saying MOT or Barbers on them - pic attached - put the fizz into Coca Cola. I don't know why he ever said it but I regurgitated it as fact when I was in sixth form for God's sake. Even when friends were asking me, "Well how would that work", I was arguing back. Most embarrassing moment of my life.

Love it! My pal thought the people who got wine instead of the wafer Communion were so lucky, because she believed it was orange cordial. 'This is MiWadi which will be given up for you...'

I was convinced that if Anne decided to leave the Famous Five, the others would call round and invite me to be the new Anne. Every time someone knocked on the back door I thought it was them.
When I was a child, white dog poo was a common sight. I thought white dogs did it.
I thought that a great big snake lived at the bottom of my bed and I never put my feet to the bottom.
If there was thunder, I thought God was making his bed (thanks for that one Grandma!).
I was a peculiar child.

Our family church was guilty of one upmanship. We were given bread and wine.

Sloppy drafting and too late to edit. 'house we lived in' and 'to sit crookedly'.

My youngest brother was in the infants when me and middle brother were in the junior part of the school. Mum picked him up first and walked round to the other gate. It was end of the year and we were singing the hymn 'Lord of the dance'.
" Dance then wherever you may be I am the Lord of the dance said he".
My brother turned to my mum and asked very seriously "What's a dance settee"

My mum, in an effort to get us to read widely, told us we were only allowed to take a library book out once. I believed this well into adulthood.