DUMBEST thing you ever believed

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  • jtc71
    jtc71 Posts: 14
    that you get the pink eye from watching 2 dogs get it on!
    i still believe this. i dont want to take the chance that it is true by watching them and getting the pink eye

    That is funny!
  • 00sarah
    00sarah Posts: 621 Member
    That I was awesome, but then it turned out I was really Legendary...outside of that... our music teacher once told us you could hide your gum behind your ear (bare in mind this is the 80's) and it would get stuck in your hair. So me and everyone else in our class stashed our gum behind our ear... yeah really funny teach REAL funny! Next day 12 new hair cuts were in class.

    Peanut butter will remove gum from hair. Just for future reference.
  • Tony_Brewski
    Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
    That I was awesome, but then it turned out I was really Legendary...outside of that... our music teacher once told us you could hide your gum behind your ear (bare in mind this is the 80's) and it would get stuck in your hair. So me and everyone else in our class stashed our gum behind our ear... yeah really funny teach REAL funny! Next day 12 new hair cuts were in class.

    Peanut butter will remove gum from hair. Just for further reference.

    Ever try to get Hubba Bubba out of hair?! Peanut butter did NOT work sister. We tried that.... along with oils... and just about everything else lol. Hello scissors!
  • UnoDrea3732
    UnoDrea3732 Posts: 342 Member
    That if you swallowed watermelon seeds that a watermelon would grow in your stomach...

    That once upon a time there was a mexican lady that had a daughter and the daughter really wanted a cat. The lady got a cat for her daughter and the girl accidentally swallowed a cat hair. The cat hair got caught in her liver and she died. That's why mexicans don't like cats and that's why we never had cats.

    That eating everything on your plate would make you big and strong. Big alright..strong..not so much.
  • dragonbait0126
    dragonbait0126 Posts: 568 Member
    The counselors at the summer camp I went to as a kid always told the new campers that the bottom of the pool was a scratch and sniff and smelled like strawberries. Only worked once. At 16, I became a counselor at said camp and continued on the tradition with my campers. I also told them that the chocolate frosting the kitchen gave us for s'mores on campouts was bat guano. I loved seeing those little faces either becoming totally disgusted and grossed out (the girls) or change into pure excitement (the boys).
  • CEHayes73
    CEHayes73 Posts: 221 Member
    When she was little, my daughter believed me when I said peanut butter (Kraft) was made from squished Teddy Bears. What, the strawberry jam has a picture of a strawberry on it, and the peanut butter has a picture of a teddy bear, and peanut butter is kind of teddy bear coloured.:tongue:
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 229 Member
    When my son was little we told him the chimes of the ice cream van were the police, he believed that for a couple of summers!!

    Later in life when he was a young teenager a friend of his and he watched the nudey bits of Sheakespear In Love on the video, his friend told his mum who is a friend of ours and she told us. We told him we knew because there was a device in the video that would tell us what he had watched, he bleived that for about three years. We don't have any stories like that about my daughter.
  • HurricaneElaine
    HurricaneElaine Posts: 984 Member
    That drinking and driving was illegal (I mean drinking anything...) until I was about 10 and I got upset with my dad for drinking a can of coke while driving, then he laughed at me :(

    Me too! The same thing - my dad was driving with a Coke in his hand - and I yelled "DAD, you're not supposed to drink and drive!" :laugh:
  • lshaunessy
    lshaunessy Posts: 64
    When I was in 2nd grade, my teacher asked the class if we knew what made the waves in the ocean. I proudly raised my hand and answered, "It's sloshing like the water in my bathtub from all the fish and whales moving around!" Was I embarassed when the entire class started laughing at me. Love you sis, thanks for that of misinformation.
  • obolton756
    obolton756 Posts: 261 Member
    Those photos in magazines weren't air brushed.. :/

    And when I was really small my dad told me if you saw Santa he and all your presents would vanish... Haha
  • spangey13
    spangey13 Posts: 294
    When I was REALLY young I used to think the world used to be black & white, because all old pictures were in black & white.

    Shutup I was a kid!!

    Me too - you're not alone!
  • IslandDreamer64
    IslandDreamer64 Posts: 258 Member
    I was shocked the first time I flew in an airplane that all the states weren't different colored, like they are on a map of the U.S! I was about 5 years old at the time.
  • orchid8384
    orchid8384 Posts: 24
    When my siblings and I were all under 8 yrs of age, our mother told us that soda came out of the faucet but it only turns to soda if we were good children. When we did good, she told us to close our eyes and she'll get soda from the kitchen faucet for us. We'd all half close our eyes but she'd go to the sink and turn the water on and then she'd bring us each a cup of soda, so we never could quite figure out how that works. Every once in a while we'd go to the sink and turn the water on but it was only water. It wasn't until I was in 5th grade that a student brought a canned soda to school and I asked him what it was that I finally found out the truth......boy was I embarrassed. To this day I always thought that was the meanest trick our mom ever played on us but she said she did it to prevent us from having too much sugar.
  • vmekash
    vmekash Posts: 422 Member
    I would hear noises from my pillow at night when I slept on my side. I thought it was bugs crawling in my pillow, until I was in my teens and realized it was my heartbeat... :blushing:

    OMG! So glad I'm not alone! I told my mother that I could hear ants marching in my pillow. And I believe this. I would look inside my pillowcase and under the pillow, fully expecting to see ants marching single file. LOL

    Thanks for bringing back the memory. :laugh:
  • HuwaydaS
    HuwaydaS Posts: 116
    That potatoe was another name for tomato
  • greenihlonde
    greenihlonde Posts: 337
    That massaging used coffee grounds into your cellulite would help improve it's appearance. :noway:
  • millyvanilli321
    millyvanilli321 Posts: 236 Member
    My ex fully believed that women only have 2 holes, and that pee comes out of the vagina. I tried to explain but he just wouldn't believe me.
  • 2credneck208
    2credneck208 Posts: 501 Member
    My mom told me that if you got a single peanut in a shell that it tasted better because all the nutrients went to that one peanut instead of being divided between two. Yeah I believed her. But she also really believed that peanuts grew on trees. Whos the dummy now!! :)
  • Erisad
    Erisad Posts: 1,580
    That kids were calling me turtle-tail instead of tattletale.
  • FullOfWin
    FullOfWin Posts: 1,414 Member
    Redrocket
  • crazytreelady
    crazytreelady Posts: 752 Member
    "Ya, they are mini hot dogs"......

    But really they were dog treats.

    Thank you siblings. :grumble: :grumble:
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    that anyone would ever love me

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  • Keiko385
    Keiko385 Posts: 514 Member
    When I was REALLY young I used to think the world used to be black & white, because all old pictures were in black & white.

    Shutup I was a kid!!

    I dont feel so bad now. I use to think the same thing :laugh:
  • Tennolina
    Tennolina Posts: 2,413
    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!

    Um, jack rabbits do exist... http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/jackrabbit/

    Yep...jackrabbits. Real.
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    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!

    Um, jack rabbits do exist... http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/jackrabbit/

    Yep...jackrabbits. Real.

    hey, remember that time that person thought jackrabbits weren't real?
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
    When I was really little my daddy would tell me if I'd eat cornbread then I'd grow hair on my chest. I believed him & for some reason wanted that to happen- so I'd eat it. Thank god it didn't work!

    Also my older brother would tease me on the escalator saying it was going to shred me up & eat me when we got to the bottom. To this day I still think about that every time I ride an escalator!
  • kerriberry74
    kerriberry74 Posts: 62 Member
    As a kid, when we went to visit our grandparents we were always reminded not to go behind the barn because there was 'quicksand'. There was even a story about how my mom saved one of my cousins who got stuck in it. I was in high school before the truth came out. Turns out the 'quicksand' was the leftover droppings from when they'd had cows!
  • sgtrowley
    sgtrowley Posts: 246 Member
    OK, gotta tell this story.. I stopped believing in Santa really young... When I asked how reindeer flew I was told Santa uses a magic powder in their food...So all I wanted for Christmas was some of that magic powder.... I didn't get any... So i had a grudge against Santa since then lol!
  • gitanagirl
    gitanagirl Posts: 207 Member
    I thought John Wayne actually died in that Indian Movie >.<
  • supahstar71
    supahstar71 Posts: 926 Member
    That the ingredients were listed on grocery food items so you could make it at home...like recipes.

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