Misconceptions You Had as a Child

I thought that blood was really blue cause thats what your veins look like, and I thought once it hit the air it turned red....lol

My mom would swear to you that this is true. :embarassed:

This is a common myth! Most well educated adults believe this, I did at one point too!

:huh: I believed this until JUST NOW!! :noway:

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

Lol this is the curse of the small Texas town. The first time someone didn't wave back, I was like wtf??

lol I know me too!! I couldn't believe it i was in total shock needless to say my city days didn't last long i was completely mind blown that people didn't know their own neighbors lol they new stuff like "well i think he works he always leaves during the day" or "i think they have kids i see toys all the time" lol where i grew up i knew everyone and their birthdays not just my neighbors

My skinny, blond haired, blue eyed siblings had me convinced I was dropped off by the Fed ex man since I am the complete opposite.

When I was a little kid, say 6 or 7, my grandmother used to babysit and we would play the card game Old Maid. I always stuck the old maid up above the other cards if I had it and grandma always picked it. I thought I was being brilliant, and It wasn't until I was in my 30s and we were talking about it and she laughed and said "you thought I didn't know?" hahahaha

That foods I didn't like the look of, would taste nasty - this included cashews (ugly peanuts); sweet potatoes (potatoes that had gone bad); Salmon (ick, pink - no other reason needed).

All stuff I actually love as an adult

In our family the vagina was called a birdie...swear to God I wondered why it never chirped!!!!

Also, a penis was called a Deet-deet! Don't ask me where they came up with these names..LOL

We used to go to a lake called Okatibee I believe the name was in Meridian, Mississippi...Well after we moved to Hawaii...a few years later me and my sis were talking naming all our aunts and uncles that we missed..and we remembered the name Uncle Tibee. Couldn't for the life of us remember what he looked like, so we asked our parents. They laughed so hard while trying to explain to us that we used to pronounce the name of the lake wrong..so it always sounded like Uncle Tibee....:laugh:

I also thought everyone in the world waved at each other, drove trucks, and wore cowboy hats & boots it wasn't until I moved to the city that I realized that, that was a complete misconception :laugh: there I was 17 years old wearing a cowboy hat & boots and waving at everyone and couldn't for the life of me figure out why people were looking at me so weird and asking do I know you :laugh: :blushing: I'm still embarrassed by that :blushing: :laugh:

Lol this is the curse of the small Texas town. The first time someone didn't wave back, I was like wtf??

lol I know me too!! I couldn't believe it i was in total shock needless to say my city days didn't last long i was completely mind blown that people didn't know their own neighbors lol they new stuff like "well i think he works he always leaves during the day" or "i think they have kids i see toys all the time" lol where i grew up i knew everyone and their birthdays not just my neighbors

oh man, I don't even consider myself a "city girl" since my city is small (50k, metro area of like 200k) but I'm totally the type to live next door to someone for 5 years and have no clue of their name or anything about them. I probably would never even notice if they worked nights or had toys around. haha My mom thinks it's very weird. She will come to visit and ask us questions about our neighbors down the block and my husband and I have never even looked in their direction!

Actually I did notice 2 weeks ago a huge moving truck on the corner, and cars with New Jersey plates. I'm in Missouri so that's not really common. Then today as I was driving to work, I saw a man I'd never seen before bringing out his trash can (from the house where the NJ vehicles were moving in) and I kind of nodded to him & smiled and he looked at me like I was nuts. So I guess I've got some of that small town Midwestern thing in me somewhere, right? haha

- That the bands playing on the radio were actually playing live from the radio station...

- That the crew of the Enterprise (from the original series) were lost and were trying to find their way back to Earth

- And thanks to my mom - that if you swallow a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in your stomach... I avoided watermelon for YEARS! Even after I was old enough to know better! :laugh:

A friend of mine thought cheese with a wax coating was "real cheese" from cows, as if it was some sort of egg-like thing they laid. Cheese in blocks and shredded cheese were man-made.

I actually believed I could be a giraffe when I grew up! Granted, I was only 2 years old, but still...so silly!

Hey, with the right attitude, you can be anything you want! FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS!!