DUMBEST thing you ever believed

coolraul07

I believed that every show on television was live and happening right now. And that every time I put a movie in all those previews in the beginning were to give the actors time to get on stage.

I used to think that same about the radio. The DJ's talking after each song provided time to switch to another studio. Once the new band started playing, the music would cover up the sounds of the previous band moving out and swapping equipment with the next band. No one told me this... totally my own imagination. Continued to believe until I was 6 or 7 and heard the same song on 3 different radio stations at 3 different points in the song... I finally asked and was told how it was really done.

gailmelanie

My childrens father told me that Jack rabbits existed and I believed him up until a few years ago when we were talking about said jack rabbits. He burst out laughing after he saw the very confused look on my face and said "Ddn't I tell you that I was joking with you?" For 10 years I believed the darn things were real!

What?! Jackrabbits do exist. Go to Texas and you will see them alive beside the roads and when they get run over in the road they become "sailrabbits" because then you can pick them up, throw them and they sail away. Seriously, jackrabbits do exist. You just haven't seen one yet. Google it.

gailmelanie

1. That i would get square eyes from watching tv

2. That if i put my hands in bleach they would disappear....never went near that mop bucket again!

Actually, if you left your hands in bleach long enough your hands would disappear. Bleach is caustic and it would dissolve your hands, but it would take a while.

skowalska

lol i believed unicorns were real until i was about 15

gailmelanie

That spanish people were considered white... I still tend to believe this, apparently they're Latino's.

I lived in a small city growing up!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino_(demonym)

Spanish people are considered white for medical purposes...Arian. When they sailed west and began depositing semen in the wombs of natives of other lands, that's when they started to look different and became mestizos who were latinos.

Yaya1976

My mom always told me to not swallow watermelon seeds, because one would grow in my belly. To this day, I think about that when I eat a watermelon....LOL...:laugh:

gailmelanie

I believed my mother knew everything. I was 18 when I realized she didn't and I felt so let down.

charlenelockhart3

that if i kissed boys my tongue would turn green. My mum used to make me stick my tongue out after school to see if id been kissing boys xx

westie2506

My parents told me that the chimney at our local hospital was where they sent all the bedding to get destroyed each day...

gailmelanie

I was 6-7 and mentioned to my Dad that asparagus sure made my pee smell funny.

He replied that this phenomenon was used by doctors to tell if Siamese twins were connected at the gut. They would feed one asparagus and see if the other had smelly pee, thus proving a digestive connection between the twins.

I believed this and repeated it in a chemistry class as we discussed uric acid, and everyone busted a gut.

Thanks Dad.

I think this might actually be true. I don't think asparagus pee happens to everyone, it's genetic. If they share bowel it stands to reason that absorbption from the gut would occur for both circulations and they would both have the asparagus-smelling urine.

deksgrl

In first grade, there was one day a week that was "catchup day". I always wondered why we never had ketchup on ketchup day, and why the discrimination, we never ever had mustard day.

LMT2012

When I was little girl, I thought the moon was following me everywhere. We were on a car trip and every time I looked out the window, there it was! I was sure it was a sign that I was going to turn into a werewolf! I finally became so worried, I mentioned the stalking moon to my father, who assured me that since the moon was so high up in the sky...it appeared to be following everybody!

I just wrote a poem about this childhood belief!!!

BerryH

That all those dead pets really had gone to live on a farm...

CrazyTrackLady

That white rice was actually maggots in a bowl. Didn't eat rice for 25 years after that.

Thanks, big sis.

BerryH

Oh, and my cousin told me that Death was a skeleton, so I thought that if I ever saw a skeleton I'd die. I had to get people to go ahead of me in museums and warn me if there were any up ahead so I could close my eyes!

gailmelanie

That getting hooked on drugs involved a literal hook.

I think we need to perpetuate this myth. Might deter some from getting hooked.

LorinaLynn

The blinking red lights on radio towers were Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and his offspring who inherited his genetic quirk.

helenoftroy1

up until I was like 18 I believed modest meant big headed, because my parents used to say "oh aren't you modest" when I was blatantly being big headed. Way to mess a kid up! How I was I to know what irony is!
It was embarrassing when I accused someone of being modest let's put it that way.

blueyegrl

I just remembered another one. My mom swore I had a twin brother she gave away at birth. This myth started when she was pregnant with my sister (I was 9). I would actually cry, and get all upset, and then she would say she was kidding, and then a few weeks/months later she would say "Oh, I wonder how your twin is doing". My family is highly dysfunctional. LOL

Pollywog39

I am very gullible and will believe most things ........... like when my 'x' husband (then my boyfriend) told me those little raised squares on the highway were like brail for blind drivers. They can "feel" them on the tires and know where to drive.

Yup. I believed it........................

n2thenight24

When I was little girl, I thought the moon was following me everywhere. We were on a car trip and every time I looked out the window, there it was! I was sure it was a sign that I was going to turn into a werewolf! I finally became so worried, I mentioned the stalking moon to my father, who assured me that since the moon was so high up in the sky...it appeared to be following everybody!

I just wrote a poem about this childhood belief!!!

My kids think that!!! I've always just told them that it's because they are so special that the moon is there specifically to watch over them and keep them safe.

LoveTexas

That the Cowboys were good.

Oh_Em_Jayyy

That the crust of the bread was the most nutritious part, much like the peel of an apple or other vegetable/fruit. Didn't realize till I was in my 20s that all parts of bread were the same, the crust was just the outermost part -_-

Beastette

That Bolivia was in South America. Geography fail.

kimbly71

That Bolivia was in South America. Geography fail.

I honestly thought that Washington DC and Washington state were the same place. Ridiculous! I suppose it is a good thing that I can laugh at myself. :ohwell:

MystikPixie

That I wouldnt be alone.

Mandybean88

When I was about 5, my dad told me that he was Batman and went out at night fighting crime... I thoroughly believed him and went to school the next day and told all the children in my class and my teachers!

OutsideCreativ

You know how school buses have to stop before railroad tracks to listen? I always thought they stopped ON the tracks... I was very confused as to why they wouldn't just drive right through instead of stopping on the tracks to listen.

BamBam125

I just remembered another one. My mom swore I had a twin brother she gave away at birth. This myth started when she was pregnant with my sister (I was 9). I would actually cry, and get all upset, and then she would say she was kidding, and then a few weeks/months later she would say "Oh, I wonder how your twin is doing". My family is highly dysfunctional. LOL

My parents did something similar. A lot of my school and day care friends and a number of the neighbors had step parents due to divorce and remarriage. Apparently my parents used to tease about how "sad it was that I only had 1 mommy and 1 daddy" whereas everyone else had 2 of each. They managed to reduce me to tears on many occasions about how tragic it was that I didn't have any step parents. I don't remember it, but I don't doubt that they did this. It's mean but sort of funny to think about it.

As for the missing sibling prank, my folks didn't do that, but apparently my husband and his younger brother did this to their youngest brother all the time. They told of how they "lost" many a brother to tragedies like the lawn mower blade, the creek, the big tree, the creepy neighbor and the like. They were sneaky too, telling the youngest how he shouldn't mention "George, Danny, Sam, etc" to their Mom because it would make her cry to think about it. She didn't learn about her sons' antics for years... Now she laughs when she hears about it.

n2thenight24

Oh! I also believed that there were people in towers that controlled all the traffic lights.