What's the dumbest/funniest misconception you had as a child?

[BillGates]

I always thought that fireworks that you see at big shows were two dimensional (exploding along a flat plane instead of in a spherical shape).

 

[Jzero]

If you live in Florida, all you do all day long is go to Disney World instead of actually working.

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

That carebears really were on clouds!

 

Babies were hatched

 

[Shelly21]

My dad told me he swallowed an apple and it got stuck in his throat, when I asked about his Adam's apple.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Originally posted by: Shelly21
My dad told me he swallowed an apple and it got stuck in his throat, when I asked about his Adam's apple.

That's a good one. I got me a big one.

Adams apple too.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

Pop rocks and soda can kill you, they killed Mikey from Life cereal commercials.

 

[Viper GTS]

Once when driving past a grain processing plant my dad attempted to point out an unusual plane. "Hey look at that plane!" I didn't see the plane, thought he was referring to the grain plant & for years wondered why it was ALWAYS there.

Viper GTS

 

[furie27]

I honestly thought the mail system was an elaborate system of vaccuum tubes like they use at drive up tellers until I was about 8.

 

[Dedpuhl]

When approaching large bridges, I thought they the shaped like the apex of a triangle. Therefore, I thought we had to be extra careful to go up them and not get stuck at the top.

 

[andylawcc]

I don't know how to say this correctly, but for the most part of my life I thought when you goto a gas station, the gasoline comes from the "top part" only. (where you swipe credit cards and pump gas from) Little did I know there are much larger gas tank underneath it.

 

[Rufio]

i thought when they meant drinking and driving, you couldn't drink ANYTHING.

i saw my dad drinking water and i yelled at him
ahhaaaa

 

[cronos]

when the year 2000 finally comes, i'm going to be 27, which is really-really old..

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
When approaching large bridges, I thought they the shaped like the apex of a triangle. Therefore, I thought we had to be extra careful to go up them and not get stuck at the top.

that is so dumb it is almost retarded... (j/k) well thanks for sharing

 

[Passions]

My stupid brother told me that if I pushed the red "REC" button on the VCR, it would BLOW UP! So I never pushed it for years, until one day, I got really bold and decided to push it. Nothing happened. :|

 

gonna sound retarded...
but i thought all dogs were male and all cats were female

 

[monk3y]

You know when you stare at something white or light... you see those little things floating around within your vision? well I used to think those were atoms hehe.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl
When approaching large bridges, I thought they the shaped like the apex of a triangle. Therefore, I thought we had to be extra careful to go up them and not get stuck at the top.

that is so dumb it is almost retarded... (j/k) well thanks for sharing

It's funny and so dumb....considering I am the "smart one" in the family.

 

[Red]

I must have asked an older person how girls pee since it looked like their butt went all the way around to the front. Until I was about 10 or so, I was under the impression girls had a penis in the back instead of the front. Someone told me that when I was young =(

I cried when I couldn't have that hot girl from the Roger Rabbit movie.

Hmm I thought stars were dead family members because I remember my dad telling me his father was in the sky.

 

[conjur]

That I would go blind by .... well .... n/m

 

[halik]

i thought black babies come out white and then just get tanner and tanner as they grow up

I was born in central europe as you can see...

 

[PlatinumGold]

my mothers maiden name is Lee and my dad's last name is also Lee, so i didn't know untill i graduated high school that korean women don't change their last names after marriage.

ironically, my wifes maiden name is also Lee.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

Originally posted by: saxguy
when the year 2000 finally comes, i'm going to be 27, which is really-really old..

hehehe that reminds me of when i was younger and we had to write a paper about what it would be like in 1999 we said there would be flying cars and everything would be like the jetsons..

 

[azazyel]

We used to get our milk from a real dairy and there were bulls there. I, being a Bugs Bunny fan, thought that if I had any red on that the bull would try to kill me. If I even had a red stripe on my shirt I wouldn't get out of the car. If my mom made me get out of the car I would always keep one eye out for mad bulls.

 

[conjur]

Nice List:


Very Innocent:

- Babies are born when couples kiss. (This made some boys to avoid kissing their own mothers; some girls avoided kissing their dads)

- Babies are bought from the malls because I saw lot of babies in the TV playing in mall like places

- Babies come from eggs like birds

- When the couples saliva mix the lady becomes pregnant

- Twins: one come from the father another from mother

- ?If a girl sleeps near a man she will become pregnant; so I was afraid to sleep near my dad? - wrote one girl



Early TV Addict:

- People in the TV are true and I used to peep through the side of the TV to see people inside

- Super man is real

- Actor and actress who kiss in the movies are real couples



Too early to be Weird:

- When women grow old their vagina disappear and become flat and blank like Barbie Doll ? thought a girl

- Why should I pee in the toilet, why not in bed ? thought another girl

- Ladies wear sanitary napkins so that they can pee whenever and wherever they want, they need not go to toilets ? thinking of a small boy



Oedipus Complex & Penis Envy:

- I wanted to marry my dad

- Why boys have penis



Toddler Scientist:

- If you dig the ground very deep you will end up in China (why China???)

- Sun goes down in the evening and comes as moon in the other side

- Moon is made of Cheese

- I wanted to be an airplane when I grow old



Religious Type:

- Pet animals go to pet heaven when they die

- Santa Clause are real and used to wait for a long time in the night during Christmas season to see him

- If you pray to God he will give a baby in mother?s stomach

- If you are good you will get a baby form God



Filipino Special:

- Why Balot vender comes in the evenings and Taho vender in the day time, why not the other way ? wondered a boy



Child Counselors:

- When my parents argue I ask them to love each other. They told me that they are fixing the problem. I gave them a screwdriver to fix, because I always see our driver fixing the car with a screwdriver - wrote one student

- Parents fight because me or my brother or sister did something wrong, so parents quarrel over that.



More than Doctors:

- If you eat ants you will be able to crawl on walls

- Babies have no feet and they cannot stand. That is why they are wrapped in cloths and laid in bed

- If you sleep in the after noon you will grow taller. (This reminds me of an adolescent student who asked me ? is it true that we grow taller if we masturbate regularly ? my answer was: if that is true the whole world will be filled with 7, 8, ?.12 footers? giants)