Childish Misunderstanding

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  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,035 Member
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    Avocado_AS5 wrote: »
    I always thought if you slept with your foot or arm hanging off the edge of the bed, the monsters were going to get you.

    Still do.

    I thought demons would possess me while I was sleeping and one way to keep them out was to ball my hands into fists with my thumbs tucked in and curl up tight under the covers with no part of me outside my protective blanket fort. [I’m beginning to think I might need therapy]
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
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    I used to think there were sea snakes in the toilet that could leap up and bite your butt.
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
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    I believed there were alligators in the sewers.
  • Healthyhunny231567
    Healthyhunny231567 Posts: 2,036 Member
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    Avocado_AS5 wrote: »
    I used to think there were sea snakes in the toilet that could leap up and bite your butt.

    Omggg me too!! I was terrified. I saw this on a news story one time. I still get scared about it :D
  • beagletracks
    beagletracks Posts: 6,035 Member
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    Avocado_AS5 wrote: »
    I used to think there were sea snakes in the toilet that could leap up and bite your butt.

    I still get totally freaked in places where there might be cockroaches that one will crawl up the sink or shower drain while I’m using it. Can’t relax in the shower — always watching the drain.
  • Just_Mel_
    Just_Mel_ Posts: 3,992 Member
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    I grew up in a conservative Christian home and thought the Bible was meant to be taken literally.
  • jaycanchu
    jaycanchu Posts: 265 Member
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    bbell1985 wrote: »
    The glove compartment in the car. I thought it was the glove department until I was like 10.

    Also the phrase "I have to piss like a rushing race horse". I thought it was a "Russian race horse"

    Up until one minute ago, I thought the saying was “ I have to piss like a Russian race horse”
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
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    Avocado_AS5 wrote: »
    I always thought if you slept with your foot or arm hanging off the edge of the bed, the monsters were going to get you.

    Still do.

    That's because it's true.
  • DreamAmalfi
    DreamAmalfi Posts: 211 Member
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    Avocado_AS5 wrote: »
    I used to think there were sea snakes in the toilet that could leap up and bite your butt.

    That's funny!
  • KickassAmazon76
    KickassAmazon76 Posts: 4,562 Member
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    When I was on a long distance school trip in grade 8, the kids in my room stumbled across a porn channel on the tv. I had never been exposed to that before and was shocked. There was an interview with one of the stars, and he was wearing a hard rock cafe shirt. For years I thought it was a company promoting porn. You can imagine how shocked I was every time I saw someone wearing one, because I thought it meant they liked porn too.

    It took me years before I figured that out! Lol

    (i lived a sheltered life)
  • CaptainFantastic01
    CaptainFantastic01 Posts: 9,557 Member
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    So spoilers about the Santa thing

    When I was little i lived on an airforce base and even though i could probably see planes out my window every night on Christmas I would look out my window and see those red blinking lights and I KNEW that was rudolph leading Santa's sleigh.

    In 2003 we moved to MN from California and in 2005 my step-siblings brutally ripped that bandaid off.

    I'm not gonna lie, i cried, and i just kept saying 'I saw rudolph I was rudolph.'

    Not my proudest moment
  • projectsix
    projectsix Posts: 5,088 Member
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    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »
    I used to think dysfunction was normal

    wait.

    it's not ??

    ut oh.

    Who knew?!

    nor·mal
    ˈnôrməl
    adjective
    1.conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.

    I'd be apt to believe this could actually be up for debate. :D
  • suerlewis2
    suerlewis2 Posts: 126 Member
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    When I was small - too little to have a proper understanding of "the birds and bees" - I honestly thought it was called public hair. As in for all to see, for everyone- PUBLIC. I couldn't figure out why that very private area had something called PUBLIC.... right there !! *groan*
  • Healthyhunny231567
    Healthyhunny231567 Posts: 2,036 Member
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    I once received the advice of picturing everyone naked when I gave a school presentation...i don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable in my life :D
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 8,995 Member
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    When I was a child I took phrases literally.
    I thought window shopping meant you bought windows and garage sales meant you bought garages on sale.

    The term ' cupboard drinker' had me totally stumped :o
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,742 Member
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    paperpudding wrote: »
    When I was a child I took phrases literally.
    I thought window shopping meant you bought windows and garage sales meant you bought garages on sale.

    The term ' cupboard drinker' had me totally stumped :o

    Oh man, I took stuff literally too. Still do, but to a lesser extent as an adult. I've never heard 'cupboard drinker' in my life, though.

    People in my area always called it a "garage sale" even if they didn't have a garage at all and that bugged me so much. My grandmother told me it could also be called a "yard sale" or "rummage sale" and I would go around correcting people until I realized they didn't care. I am surprised I wasn't more hated as a kid, doing things like that! ha.
  • Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings
    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings Posts: 5,545 Member
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    Mr_Healthy_Habits wrote: »
    My Grandfather is a kung-fu Great Grandmaster, he was a student at Bruce Lee's Oakland school, trained with him and is actually the last surviving member (81yrs old)

    I've trained off and on pretty much since I could walk and honestly thought we were Chinese until I was 6yrs old... Hahaha

    Blew me away to find out I was in fact Mexican :lol:

    Everything about this is awesome Chico!
  • Versicolour
    Versicolour Posts: 7,164 Member
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    denny_mac wrote: »
    I've heard about having to piss like a race horse, but when I heard it, it was always just "piss like a race horse" there was no other adjective, Russian, or otherwise.

    Me too!

    When I was little I noticed that black objects got hotter in the sun than lighter coloured objects. I asked my older (by 22 months) and wiser (according to her) sister why. Not wanting to lose face, she told me that the sun thought the black was a patch of darkness and so it shone harder on it to try and light it up. I believed her for about 3 years

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