Randomly odd things you believed as a child and possibly beyond...

[Elmo230885]

I live this type of thread...

(I'm not talking about believing in Santa or the tooth fairy)

I'll start. I had a cousin named Stephen and he had the middle name Dean. For some reason he used to switch and go by either name. So as a child I believed that Dean was short for Stephen in the same way Bill is used for William.

When I was little my older brother use to tell me that the clouds in the sky were sheep

I also use to think Scotland Yard was in Scotland

No one told me it was I just thought it was

I thought Thunder and Lightening were just different things in a thunderstorm. I didn't realise thunder was the sound lightening made (ahem...until about last year, when I read I in one of my son's lift the flap books).

@Brahumbug

Sorry, but the swan breaking your arm is complete and utter twaddle. Swan wings are far to delicate compared to human arm bones.

The swan thing I always thought was their neck? I don't think I believed it either way, I don't actually remember hearing it till I was an adult. I was also a very skeptical child

Not me, but my daughter based on information I gave her (deliberately!) from babyhood. I told her that it was the law that if you waved at a fire appliance, it was the law that they waved back. Only realised 2 years ago that this was a patent lie. She still does it though

Travelling on the ferry to France, we had a cabin as a family. I thought all the people sat around with sleeping bags and bags in the communal rooms were refugees liked I'd seen on TV or were generally homeless people

I thought hair grew from the ends, not the roots

I believed that men didn’t like tea presumably because my dad didn’t. I remember going to my friends house and thinking it very strange when her dad had a cup of tea.

I thought elbow grease was something you put on your elbows to help you work.

I thought my mother was 'Mary' I have no idea why

I thought Swans would break your leg as well.

I thought if you warmed up a dead mouse it would come back to life so I brought them in the house and left them inside clothes for my mother to find :)

I thought that witches were a real thing and existed in the "Olden days." I also thought that my mum was a child in the "olden days" so would've seen witches flying about.

Until I was 5 I thought mosquitos were like the ones in Jumanji. So when my mum said I needed mozzy spray I freaked out thinking I'd be chased by 4ft long mosquitos.

Oh and I also thought that when you got married, it's your first name that changed and you got to pick a new one. I remember writing a list of names and was heartbroken when my mum told me that's not how it works (I hated my name growing up) 😅

Thought of another!

I thought my dad's name (Bruce) was a nickname until I was about 6. It just sounded so silly to me that I assumed it wasn't his real name

@sorryforswearing I believed the opposite. I thought women drank coffee and men drank tea, as that's what my parents did. I always thought people were being rude when we went to their houses and they only offered my mum a cup of tea

These are are so funny!

I've just remembered another...
When we walked to the shops we walked past a betting shop. Obviously I couldn't see inside so I asked what sort of shop it was and my mum told me people go in there to put money on a horse. I took this very literally and imagined a room full of life-size plastic horses with little piles of money on their backs!
Many years later when I was about 19 my nan gave me a fiver and asked me to go in Ladbrokes and put it on a certain horse for her annual flutter on the Grand National. Imagine my surprise on entering a room full of TV screens with men smoking and reading the paper! I felt very self-conscious walking up to the counter and asking what to do Best thing was her horse won so I got to go back later on to collect her winnings!

I thought that Wee Jimmie Krankie was an actual child. I never questioned it at all until adulthood when it occurred to me to wonder why he'd never got older!

I thought that people who worked on satellite tv (presenters etc) had to commute to the studio which was on the satellite. I thought it was a little like the ISS.

Well I did believe that only married people could have children. Single mums? Well obvs their husbands were not home often due to being long distance lorry drivers........or in prison!

Raido advert about three piece suite shop in Bristol.

My brother and I were always convinced it was a shop that sold sweets for 3p. We were always so mad when are parents wouldn't take us.

That the direction I was walking was North, and North changed with me.

I'm still not very convinced.

@EatsShootsAndRuns there's no need to be rude. This is a nice thread, to put a smile on people's faces. I made a spelling error in my opening post, really would have derailed the thread had people just decided to point that out!

Too much sugar gives you worms. I was 27 when I realised it couldnt be possible

@ThighthighOfthigh I’m the same with North I’m a well educated person with postgraduate level quals but my brain always think North is where I’m looking! I know it’s not but it feels like it should be.

DH says it’s because I think the world revolves around me

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When my mum boldly wrote my surname inside my school plimsolls, with a permanent marker, I was sure that it would somehow be transferred to my foot. I wore them without socks to try to make it happen, and was disappointed when it didn't! I also imagined my name appearing on my foot the right way round, and of course it would have been back to front.