Weird ideas you had as a kid

[RadiclDreamer]

When I was a kid I looked at the world from a completely different prospective. I had some pretty odd thoughts on the way the world worked etc.

I'll start this out by saying until i was about 4 I was afraid of the toilet because I thought monsters would come up and get me.

Post your weird ideas as a kid

 

[Deeko]

At some point in elementary school a friend of mine and I thought we could build a bike where the pedals powered a generator that ran an electric motor, allowing you a self-powered motorcycle.

Yea, we failed.

 

[HammerCurl]

Yea at my Kindergarten my older siblings convinced me there was a monster in the bathroom. I never set foot there for the whole time, needless to say I peed my pants when I was there a few times. Good thing it wasnt a whole 7 hours.

I was also convinced that my parents could choose birthing order, and constantly remarked that they shouldve been born first instead of my brother so that I could be the one driving (I think I was around 5, same time I was peeing my pants in school).

 

[Pepsi90919]

that the world was a great place and everyone got along

 

[Vegitto]

Well, I can't recall any weird ideas, but I can recall giving things weird names or doing 'funny' stuff (which was only funny if you weren't the one paying for whatever it was I broke.. )..

Will post if I can remember something, though.

 

[acid45]

I used to think my parents loved me

 

[Mucho]

I use to believe in god and that people were inherently good.

 

[daveshel]

When I was in elementary school, they used to call out our bus numbers on a PA system. While I was listening for mine, I would hear them say. "You made us miss the Walkers." I always wondered who the Walkers were, why they kept missing them, and why they had to lay this guilt trip on us poor little kids for making them miss the Walkers. It was years before I came to understand that they were saying, "You may dismiss the walkers."

 

[fredhe12]

I thought it would be a good idea to take a hammer to an old shell casing I found.

After my buddy had the shrapnel removed from his arm at the ER, his dad threatened my dad with a lawsuit, and my dad beat me unmercifully (well deserved, btw), we all had a good laugh.

 

[Jeff7]

My grandfather would take me to museums, and we'd go by bus, as he never owned a car. We'd get on the bus, and I noticed that it wouldn't go anywhere until he put coins in. So I figured that it ran on coins, but I couldn't figure out how it would burn metal for power.

Originally posted by: Deeko
At some point in elementary school a friend of mine and I thought we could build a bike where the pedals powered a generator that ran an electric motor, allowing you a self-powered motorcycle.

Yea, we failed.

I thought of something like that, too. Then my dad explained the law of conservation of energy, and the impact of friction. I probably knew about that stuff years before it was ever addressed in school.

When my training wheels were removed from my bicycle, I absolutely refused to ride it, for about two weeks. I just didn't see any way that something standing on only two wheels could possibly balance. I wasn't fully versed in gyroscopic principles at that time.
I did eventually find that I could even balance the bicycle reasonably well while standing still.

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
that the world was a great place and everyone got along

Or that police were all fine, upstanding citizens, or that government officials were all honest people, there purely to serve and protect the public interest. Sadly, it wasn't until high school when I started learning otherwise. Then I slowly began to make a realization I'd suspected for awhile: reality really kind of sucks.

 

[AmpedSilence]

I thought that you could change your name at random; if you wanted. For the longest time I signed my middle name 'Robert' cause i liked it. After a Parent Teacher conference, my parents had to explain why i couldn't do that.

Another strange idea i had was that it would be cool to have wheels that would hide in your sneakers, then when you wanted a small burst in speed, you would tap the tow of your shoe on the ground and the wheel would drop out and you could skate to where ever you were going. They have those now, so i guess it wasn't such a strange idea; I wish i had told someone about it and actually made them. I would have been rich. Oh well.

Another idea, when ever i would ride my bike i would pretend that i was "scanning" the ground and creating a 3-d map of the area that i was just riding for future reference. I believe they have that now on a much larger scale.

I suppose my ideas weren't really strange, just before thier time.....

 

[CPA]

I used to love the electric slot car race tracks. I always wanted to build a slot car race track that didn't use the slots, thus allowing you to changes lanes at any time. Also, wanted the ability to race more than 2 cars. I still think about that idea and how to pull it off.

 

[Ricochet]

I thought that adults were responsible, moral, and knew everything and that when I grow up I would be the same way.

 

[Quasmo]

My sisters name is Jacquelyn, my dad used to make the joke: "What did they say when they stole the plane?"...... "Hiiiiii Jackie" It wasn't until me and my sister where about 18 that we finally realised he was saying hijack-eee.

 

[Vonkhan]

My sister and I stockpiled firecrackers for 3 months with our allowance ... emptied out all the cordite and packed it tightly into a small a paper bag thereby creating a super-firecracker.

Thankfully, both of us got cold feet when the time came to light the 1-inch fuse on the mother-of-all-firecrackers otherwise I would be typing this with my toes.

 

[dugweb]

I had (still do actually) a toy Optimus Prime. Somehow the back flap for the tailgate of the trailor came off, and in my mind it looked like the "inside part" of a NES videogame (the circuitry). I immediately started work on my own game that I would make. It was going to be a Zelda type game, but I never did find anything that would have worked for the plastic case around my optimus prime tailgate game piece.


edit: My sister and I had a cat (we were about 6-8 years old) and we developed our own language to talk to each other and the cat. It was sort of like a pig latin type thing, but our cats name became 'fid is sign e fid hand i lab a gooding cloo' which basically meant 'cat is a cat and i rub my nose to yours'. we used to always rub our nose to our cats nose.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

I was in a car with my dad and a bend at the end of the road got me thinking. I asked "If you didn't turn the wheel, would the car still go round the corner?".

 

[Engraver]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
When I was a kid I looked at the world from a completely different prospective. I had some pretty odd thoughts on the way the world worked etc.

I'll start this out by saying until i was about 4 I was afraid of the toilet because I thought monsters would come up and get me.

Post your weird ideas as a kid

You obviously watched the movie adaptation of Stephen King's "It" as a kid (I did too, omg bathroom monsters).

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
When I was a kid I looked at the world from a completely different prospective. I had some pretty odd thoughts on the way the world worked etc.

I'll start this out by saying until i was about 4 I was afraid of the toilet because I thought monsters would come up and get me.

Post your weird ideas as a kid

When my brother was but a few years old, he woke up one night & headed to the bathroom. As he sat on the can, it suddenly started shaking. We heard his cries, & came in to find him curled up on the seat, & the tail of a rat that was scurrying back into the wall. I think he started using his potty trainer again after that. At least until we caught the rat.

 

[Kev]

I would wonder why people just couldn't have sex with their clothes on.

 

[HammerCurl]

Originally posted by: Kev
I would wonder why people just couldn't have sex with their clothes on.

haha I like this one

 

[irishScott]

When I was young, I was told that crap was called BM. So I accepted it as another word in the dictionary and went on with my life. Wasn't until a couple if months ago that I figured out the acronym

 

[Daishiki]

I thought people grew taller because all the food you ate would stockpile inside and make you expand. Then I remembered the concept of 'poo.'

 

[imported_LoKe]

I thought growing up would be great.

 

[PepePeru]

i used to think there was a team of men under the wheel on 'wheel of fortune' holding sticks and running in a circle to make it spin faster.