DUMBEST thing you ever believed

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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 -_-

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:

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!

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.