Things you used to think and now can't quite believe you did

[treaclesoda]

I saw a seagull flying and it suddenly occurred to me that when I was little, I thought there were two different types of seagulls. Ones with legs, and ones without. Naturally the ones with legs had no choice but to fly all the time

I was a pretty bright child, I can't imagine why I thought that.

Please tell me someone else out there thought the same?

[KatieKaye]

Whist drives are when you get several groups of four people at separate tables. they play one or two rounds of whist (each suit being trumps in turn, sometimes a round of misère, where you try not to win, and maybe a round of blind). At the end, the points are added up and the winner moves to the next table, the loser moves to the table behind and the other two stay where they are and start a new game.
there are breaks for tea, coffee, bridge rolls etc. Used to be very popular in church halls, along with beetle drives for the kids.
I was roped into playing at whist drives from the age of 8 which is why I am such an expert.

[matildasquared]

When I was little the lifeguards at our public pool told us kids that all swimming pools are treated with a special chemical which causes the water around you to turn red if you pee. So if you peed in the pool, a Red Cloud of Shame would appear around your bum.

I believed this until I was 42 years old. Someone was telling me a story about peeing in the pool and I said, "But what about the red dye?"

[matildasquared]

Swimming in the public baths is a lot more enjoyable now! (Kidding!!!)

[brodyboo]

Wi

[matildasquared]

Unarmed civilians! I have never laughed so hard!!!!

[wiltingfast]

I still can't quite believe in seahorses... I'm almost 40!

[brodyboo]

With you all on the gorilla/guerilla confusion. I did wonder why there were all these campaigns to save the gorillas when they were roaming round with machine guns taking people hostage!

[matildasquared]

Lololol. Didn't you wonder how the gorillas read Marx? Did someone explain it to them with sign language?

[YoureBeingASillyBilly]

When I was little the lifeguards at our public pool told us kids that all swimming pools are treated with a special chemical which causes the water around you to turn red if you pee. So if you peed in the pool, a Red Cloud of Shame would appear around your bum.

I believed this until I was 42 years old. Someone was telling me a story about peeing in the pool and I said, "But what about the red dye?"

In p1 at primary school we were taught in a mobile classroom with one toilet. Our teacher told us that a man came and painted an invisible paint on the door handle that turned red if someone touched it without washing their hands first and it would turn their hands red too. I beleived that for years after leaving primary school

[Honsandrevels]

I thought the same as Balloon and others re sex. It was only when I saw a raunchy channel 4 drama when I was almost 15 when I realised you had to move. I thought the penis made its own way in during kissing

When I was 7ish we were learning bout magnets at school and I concluded that people in Australia must have magnets on their shoes. Worrying about what happened when they went to bed and in shoe shops kept me awake at night!

[Superworm]

I have just learnt the red dye and pool peeling is not true....

I thought it was a special chlorine

[matildasquared]

Oops. Now thanks to me the pools of the UK are going to be a lot warmer.

[AMillionNameChangesLater]

MrsAtticus

Me too!

[Tenrec]

I, when I was about four or five, I think, thought our neighbour was Jesus. He looked pretty similar to the depictions- long dark hair (it wasn't actually long, it was quite short, but it was curly) a beard and so on, and he was a Christian and would read us Bible stories when he looked after us, so it obviously meant he was Jesus.

[Tenrec]

Oh, and that planes kind of flew like balls- they'd be launched into the air by a big machine, literally throwing it.

[koalaDevon]

I used to think all supermarkets had factories, so Sainsbury own brand foods were all made in Sainsbury factory,.,

[AmberLeaf]

I thought it was a cloud of purple dye that would appear if you peed in the pool I am stunned that this isn't true, I still believed it to be

That my Mum had an actual eye in the back of her head.

[YoureBeingASillyBilly]

Oops. Now thanks to me the pools of the UK are going to be a lot warmer.

[Darmok]

With everyone else who heard 'guerrilla war' and imagined hordes of giant silverbacks causing chaos and ruin....

I was afraid to do the splits, in case I ...well, split

[tealover1985]

I used to think that when the contestants on the Crystal maze got locked in the room they were actually not allowed to go home.
On hearing that camels have humps because they live in the desert with nk food etc i wondered how the camel got the food out of it's hump and into it's mouth. I imagined a stash of mars bars in there!
Overheard mum and dad talking about speed guns and thought the police shot you if you did something wrong.

[DangoDays]

What?!? Sainsburys doesn't have a factory?

[MyNameIsSuz]

That the Wombles of Wimbledon were 'common', as in dodgy tracksuits and screaming at your kids in the street sort of common. In the song they pause in the wrong place (sing it to yourself and you'll see).

Oh my goodness, I thought that too, I've never met another one!!

[Pimpf]

There was a tv show called the adventure game, i really thought that contestants were vaporised if they lost. I thought it was a really cruel game and couldn't understand why they weren't allowed to go ho,e

[IWillIfHeWill]

I thought Cliff Richard was a tiny little man who lived in the radiogram and sang songs. I thought if I looked into the radiogram I would see him. I might even catch him dressing...I was definitely four and a half at the time. Quite shocking what I had on my mind. Clearly the doubts about his inclinations hadn't reached reception class in 1962.