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

[imported_Tomato]

I firmly believed if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow to full size in my stomach.

 

[Bulk Beef]

I had some Merck stock and my dad and I would check it in the paper every morning. I got it in my head that Merck was my middle name and signed all my school papers accordingly.

 

[JetBlack69]

Originally posted by: 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

Same here, my mom was drinking a Sprite and I said "Mom!! Don't drink and drive!!"

 

[StageLeft]

I thought a woman gets pregnant4 when two people love each other.

 

[nageov3t]

gah. things like this remind me why I couldn't stand my peers when I was a kid

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69

Originally posted by: 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

Same here, my mom was drinking a Sprite and I said "Mom!! Don't drink and drive!!"

my friend as a kid told his parents that my father drinks and drives and they got all concerned because he always drove us...untill they called and found out it was coffee or OJ

 

[Titan]

i have no idea why, but i always thought a full side-split was impossible for males to accomplish. I think I got the idea from watching van damme movies. But anyways, I thought that if a guy did achieve being able to do a full split, well, his boys would fall off and mr happy would shoot off like a rocket. I was a messed up kid.

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: 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. :|

dude! I wasn't told but I thought the same too. I mean, why is it Red, it must mean something dangerous.

Originally posted by: Dedpuhl



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

you are just the most "geometrical" one

 

Originally posted by: tkotitan2
i have no idea why, but i always thought a full side-split was impossible for males to accomplish. I think I got the idea from watching van damme movies. But anyways, I thought that if a guy did achieve being able to do a full split, well, his boys would fall off and mr happy would shoot off like a rocket. I was a messed up kid.

i thought kinda the same thing
i assumed that the womans vagina could spread open 4 or 6 inches allowing the woman to do the splits
i figured if a man were to do the splits, the skin under the sack would split open

 

[poopaskoopa]

I thought I was an adopted child, and that I'd be given back to my real parents when I turned 12. My mother told me this and she thought it was hilarious that I'd fret. WTF?

 

[imported_Strang]

Originally posted by: JetBlack69

Originally posted by: 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

Same here, my mom was drinking a Sprite and I said "Mom!! Don't drink and drive!!"

Same, but with my dad and orange juice. I remember being very offended.

 

[Aftermath]

Originally posted by: Dezign
I firmly believed if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow to full size in my stomach.

My parents drove this thought into my head (jokingly) as well. Until I was about 10 I meticulously picked apart my watermelon as I ate it so as to avoid any seeds.

Edit: I knew a girl my senior year of High School who was a vegitarian because she was a firm believer that meat was not digested, but is merely sloshed through the digestive system. If you ate too much meat, you would clog yourself up and die. My friend and I gave her hell about it every day.

 

[imported_Strang]

The common one that I'm somewhat surprised hasn't been mentioned is that gum will stay in your stomach for 7 years if you swallow it. Too bad we didn't have snopes in elementary school.

 

[Ranger X]

I thought banks provided the community with money.

When someone would say, "I have no money",
I would respond with a, "Just go to the bank".

 

[Shanteli]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I thought a woman gets pregnant4 when two people love each other.

Yeah boy were you wrong

 

[petejk]

my mom told me that if you eat toothpaste...it will grow inside of your stomach
and come out of my mouth....everytime someone told me i was wrong about this (at church)
i told them "nah ah" my mom told me so!!

 

[imported_Cybercop]

i wana buy a model car. ask for mum to buy for me. Mum say no money. I say "the wall got lots of money. Go there take!!"

this has become the joke whenever my mum talks abt the childhood me :laugh:

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I was under this strange impression that I spoke horrible English and didn't work hard enough in my English classes. Then I got out into the real world and realized that I wasted SO much time studying!

 

[imported_Strang]

Originally posted by: Cybercop
i wana buy a model car. ask for mum to buy for me. Mum say no money. I say "the wall got lots of money. Go there take!!"

this has become the joke whenever my mum talks abt the childhood me :laugh:

I was under the impression that drugs were illegal.

 

[notfred]

Heh, everyone's talking about drinking and driving...

I didn't realize drinking and driving was illegal till I was maybe 12 or so. My family was driving somewhere, and my mom said "Oh, cop car!" or something and my dad lowered his beer down by the floor.

The weird thing is, even despite behavior like that, I've only actually seen my dad drunk once (and he wasn't driving). He drinks all the time, but never drinks enough for it to actually affect his behavior.

 

[MikeO]

I figured since my bike had like 10 gears, then a car must have like.. hundreds For the longest time I kept thinking that driving a car must be hard as hell.

 

[LivinLaVivaPollo]

I thought that when you gave away your phone number, you had to get a new one.

 

[BladeWalker]

Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
That carebears really were on clouds!

Now we know they actually live in caves like other bears.

I actually thought that in the past there were no colors because old movies were always in B&W.

 

[NuclearNed]

I thought that when you ate something, it settled down to the lowest point of your body. Alas, one time I stepped on something that pricked my toe. Because of my "eating" theory, I told my Mom that I thought I must have swallowed a pin. We spent the rest of the evening in the emergency room.

 

[imported_yovonbishop]

I thought that babies came out of bellybuttons and that school was actually fun (kindergarden) :roll: