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

[eakers]

my favourite sandwhich was cheese wiz and strawberry jam and i thought that it was normal and everyone ate it.

 

[Kerouactivist]

I thought christianity was real....not a fairy tale..:laugh:

 

[nitsuj3580]

Originally posted by: Strangone

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.

Hahaha...I'm guilty of this as well. I yelled at my dad for drinking a Pepsi while driving.

 

[Nanotech]

On vacation one year my brother told me that if you motion to cars to honk their horn they will sorta like you can do to truckers except it really doesn't work.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I thought that if you get cut with a piece of glass that little glass shards would get in your blood vessels and end up in your heart.

For a while I thought that my mom waited all day fopr me at the school. She would be there when I went in, and she would be in the same place when I came out at the end of the day.

 

[Fritoz]

That Roly Polys could give you Polio...

 

[AvesPKS]

I have 2:

I thought that if you waved to a plane flying overhead, it would shoot at you if it was low enough to see you.

Remember back in the 80's, when Mothers Against Drunk Driving gave out all those red ribbons to put on your car, to show your support for MADD? I always thought that this meant to signal that you were driving drunk, and I'd get mad whenever I'd see a mother putting their kids in the car with a red ribbon on the car.

 

[slydecix]

that babies come out from the mommy's butt

 

[AgentEL]

Animals communicate telepathically.

 

[Gurck]

The drinking ones are funny, was the opposite for me - I thought it was ok since my pop always had an open beer in the car on the occasions I saw him... I also thought credit cards were a good way to avoid paying real money and often suggested that my mother use them.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

America is a free country.

 

[sillymofo]

That dragons are real.

 

[Red Dawn]

That our leader were honest and would never lie to us.

 

[DrVos]

I was pretty certain that Pops cereal really could explode out the front of the box like they did in the commercials

 

[dabuddha]

If you knew how I used to think sex worked, it'd make you cry

Let's just say, I didn't know anything about vaginas

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
That our leader were honest and would never lie to us.

Wait, but didn't you live through the Teapot Dome Scandal?

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: 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).

LOL my grandma still believes that.
Last time I went to watch fireworks.. and she was like.. oh look, we are so lucky, we are sitting at a perfect angle..

 

[azazyel]

Originally posted by: AgentEL
Animals communicate telepathically.

I still haven't given up on that one. Whenever I am house-sitting for my sister I will grab her dog's head and look into his eyes and think really loudly, "GO GET ME A BEER." Hasn't worked yet, but it would be so cool if it did.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: 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.

It is dangerous! If you have a tape inside, you'll overwrite the stuff on there if you accidently push it, which will ruin the tape. I have a few movies that has parts of tv shows recorded on it because someone accidently pushed the record button while the movie was inside the VCR...

 

[JzL]

I thought that you could get a girl pregnant by kissing. That damn movie Look Who's Talking is what made me think that. Remember when Kristie Ally was doing her client, they were kissing and all of sudden you saw the sperm looking for the egg!?!? I will never forget that.. my dad laughed at me so hard.

 

[skychief]

I remember thinking my dad was so cool because he seemed to know every other guy that we would pass on the road. As I got a little older though I realized that not everbody could be named Jack.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0

Originally posted by: 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).

LOL my grandma still believes that.
Last time I went to watch fireworks.. and she was like.. oh look, we are so lucky, we are sitting at a perfect angle..

Don't some of them? I seem to recall seeing some as ovals (ie. at an angle) sometimes, and if they were exploding outward in all directions, the ones going toward or away from you would be at different perceived distances from the center, not in a perfect circle/oval, depending on viewing angle...? My description make any sense?

 

[Homerboy]

That chicks dig computers.

 

[Crappopotamus]

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!!"

hahaha. funny as hell.

when i was young, my friend told me that erections were when a penis got hard and pointed up or down. pretty strange...

 

[Bulldog13]

I didn t realize women pooped until I was like 9.

I always just thought they did number 1.

Don t ask me why.