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

[Haps]

Why would he be an asshole?

It's a harmless joke.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
I remember my parents telling me if I played with matches, I would wet my bed.

Thats awesome.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
I remember my parents telling me if I played with matches, I would wet my bed.

Thats awesome.

Yeah, that is pretty clever. I'll use that one if I ever have kids .

 

[Teliasen]

I used to think that everything stopped when i went to sleep, and started again when i woke up.

 

[rudder]

I thought AOL was the internet.

 

[miniMUNCH]

After seeing Jaws when I about 6 or 7...I was always worried that I might get eaten by shark...in any body of water including my friend's pool.

It didn't stop me from going in the water and having fun but there was always that tinge of doubt and fear in the back of my mind.

 

[Pantoot]

Originally posted by: Teliasen
I used to think that everything stopped when i went to sleep, and started again when i woke up.

Same here.
The multi-meter lie detector one is priceless, I cannot wait to get home and try it out on my son!

 

[bsobel]

I actually thought that two. Then I thought briefly that women had 3 totally seperate holes for some reason...one for peeing, one for babies and one for crapping. I went from a bad idea to a worse one.

Umm, RocketRanger, they do

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: bsobel

I actually thought that two. Then I thought briefly that women had 3 totally seperate holes for some reason...one for peeing, one for babies and one for crapping. I went from a bad idea to a worse one.

Umm, RocketRanger, they do

That's what I was going to say too...

 

[Crappopotamus]

Originally posted by: miniMUNCH
After seeing Jaws when I about 6 or 7...I was always worried that I might get eaten by shark...in any body of water including my friend's pool.

It didn't stop me from going in the water and having fun but there was always that tinge of doubt and fear in the back of my mind.

i still feel that today. theres always a little bit of fear whenever im in the water. OH. i used to imagine that those big lines on the bottom of the pool were huge fish.

 

[imported_Strang]

I remember being in 5th or 6th grade and seeing lights flashing across my bedroom's venetian blinds in the middle of the night. I was on the second floor of our house and thus thought UFOs were flying by. I even told my dad, who either gave me the benefit of the doubt or humored me.

I'd jump up in the night and run to the window to see what it was, but it'd be gone too quickly to see.

Finally one night, I figured it out. It was the light from a f'ing car that was passing on the highway (which was ~2 miles away from our house -- we lived in the absolute boonies). The light was diffused through trees and spread out, which is what actually confused me.

Now that I think about it, I remember being pretty convinced that there were tons of UFOs around when I was a kid...

 

[ViciouS]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I thought that girls had testees, but no penis.

They don't?