Thoughts you had as kids who turned out completely wrong

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ndee

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OK, when I was about 4 and we were in Adelaide, Australia, I always saw how my mom paid the dinner, shoppings, etc., with her credit card. I didn't realize that she has to pay a bill after a month, so I asked her why she doesn't buy the whole city :eek:

When we flew in a plane, I always watched out of the window and told myself that there are "care bears". I also told my mom about it, and when she looked out of the window. "Ah mom, they just left."
 
TallBill

TallBill

Lifer
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I thought i'd grow up to be good looking, rich, and intelligent..

Boy was I ever wrong :p
 
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chiwawa626

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When i saw commercials on tv for cars, furniture, and other things theyd say like Four-Ninety-Nine instead if Four-Hundred-Ninety-Nine, yeah so i always wondered why we never bought any of that cool stuff in all the advertisments...
 
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chiwawa626

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Aug 15, 2000
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Originally posted by: dparker
I was scared to go out at night by myself because of aliens.
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I asked my neighbor if he was an alien heheh...and then i didnt talk to him for a week. When i saw him 10 years later he still remembers...i still think he is an alien though. :p
 
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ndee

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Jul 18, 2000
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another one... there was this toy store in town and they had those little discount-books with coupons for various toys. So I thought I could collect a couple of those little books and exchange them for a NES.
 
Nocturnal

Nocturnal

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I always thought there were people performing in my TV. I would often times knock on it to see if they would stop doing what they were doing.
 

I used to ask my parents all the time why sugarless gum had NO sugar in it, becuase I just thought it had LESS sugar.
 
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Wallydraigle

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My mom always walked me into the school building in the morning and she was waiting in the lobby when it was time to go home so I thought she waited there all day:eek:

I thought that dolls were like frozen people who could still see and stuff, but just couldn't move.

 
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ndee

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Jul 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: lirion
My mom always walked me into the school building in the morning and she was waiting in the lobby when it was time to go home so I thought she waited there all day:eek:

I thought that dolls were like frozen people who could still see and stuff, but just couldn't move.
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looooool


keep'em comin' guys ;)
 
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Jhill

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Oct 28, 2001
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I thought if I was in the tub when I unplugged the drain I would go down the drain. Then my brother did it one day and I was in tears.
 
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HappyPuppy

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When I was a little kid there was no such thing as credit cards. TV was broadcast for a total of about 5 hours/day and there were only two channels. There was no such thing as "hamburger stands", they were "hot dog" stands. Getting a Coke, or soda, was a treat that happened 3 or 4 times a month. When we went to school, if we didn't behave, we got our butts whipped. If the parents complained, the kid and the parent were removed from the school.

No, I didn't grow up in Podunk, Nowhere. I grew up in Los Angeles. We were not poor, we were solid middle class.

Don't know what this has to do with childhood thoughts, just felt like shooting my mouth off.:)
 
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yobarman

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Once back in the day we were looking at a map in class and I asked what was on the other side of the world.

I have so many good ones i just can't remember them right now
 
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igowerf

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I didn't understand why the clerk at the grocery store gave my mom change back after she paid for groceries. I thought it was some weird system where you pay them, then they pay you, and you get free groceries.
 
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AmerDoux

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My brother flushed my goldfish down the toilet. I cried and cried and cried... To console me, my sister told me that he would swim out of the sewer system and into the ocean, where he would grow into an enormous orange whale and live happily ever after. :)
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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Jul 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
When I was a little kid there was no such thing as credit cards. TV was broadcast for a total of about 5 hours/day and there were only two channels. There was no such thing as "hamburger stands", they were "hot dog" stands. Getting a Coke, or soda, was a treat that happened 3 or 4 times a month. When we went to school, if we didn't behave, we got our butts whipped. If the parents complained, the kid and the parent were removed from the school.

No, I didn't grow up in Podunk, Nowhere. I grew up in Los Angeles. We were not poor, we were solid middle class.

Don't know what this has to do with childhood thoughts, just felt like shooting my mouth off.:)
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You're pushing 60, aren't you? Because you just described growing up in the late 1950's to early 60's.
 
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HappyPuppy

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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
When I was a little kid there was no such thing as credit cards. TV was broadcast for a total of about 5 hours/day and there were only two channels. There was no such thing as "hamburger stands", they were "hot dog" stands. Getting a Coke, or soda, was a treat that happened 3 or 4 times a month. When we went to school, if we didn't behave, we got our butts whipped. If the parents complained, the kid and the parent were removed from the school.

No, I didn't grow up in Podunk, Nowhere. I grew up in Los Angeles. We were not poor, we were solid middle class.

Don't know what this has to do with childhood thoughts, just felt like shooting my mouth off.:)
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You're pushing 60, aren't you? Because you just described growing up in the late 1950's to early 60's.
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I have a few years to go to hit 60, but yeh, my childhood was in the early '50's. It was a completely different world than it is today. I am in awe at what my children have available to them.

 
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pennylane

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Originally posted by: AmerDoux
My brother flushed my goldfish down the toilet. I cried and cried and cried... To console me, my sister told me that he would swim out of the sewer system and into the ocean, where he would grow into an enormous orange whale and live happily ever after. :)
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awwww how sweet :)
 
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DigDug

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I didn't understand why the clerk at the grocery store gave my mom change back after she paid for groceries. I thought it was some weird system where you pay them, then they pay you, and you get free groceries.
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Damn, you were a real fool.





JUST KIDDING. :)


 
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