Childish Misunderstanding

SabotageinStilettos
SabotageinStilettos Posts: 4,833 Member
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What’s the silliest thing you recall misunderstanding as a child?


Drinking and driving. I legitimately thought that meant that you could not partake in any beverage while driving a car and I would get so paranoid when my dad would bring a mug of coffee into the car. He didn’t even try to hide it!
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  • bbell1985
    bbell1985 Posts: 4,572 Member
    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"
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,492 Member
    We always passed this building called "Camping World" and I thought it was an indoor camp site.

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  • pudgy1977
    pudgy1977 Posts: 13,499 Member
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    I thought babies came out of belly buttons until my older brother horrified with the dirty truth at age 9.

    I gotta tell ya, the belly button sounds even worse.
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    SabotageinStilettos wrote: »
    I thought babies came out of belly buttons until my older brother horrified with the dirty truth at age 9.

    My mom told me that one. It might been when I actually learned where they did come from that I decided to never have kids. :wink:
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    I always sat way in the back of a van so I had never seen rumble strips before. I thought that sound was something that came up out of the road and scraped the bottom of your car. I always wondered how it worked, like did it sense a car and automatically pop up? What happened to motorcycles?
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    Once I had a dream that we had a fire in our house. It was so vivid that until I was 15 I thought we actually had had a fire. I even argued with my parents that they were wrong because I could remember the fireman who teased me about wearing no shoes and I got flustered and sassed him.
  • projectsix
    projectsix Posts: 5,088 Member
    I might have been 7 or 8 and woke up in the middle of the night to mom and her boyfriend getting it on. I went into their room scared cause she was screaming and I thought he was hurting her. Nope! Being all grown up turns out quite the opposite, it's a good time.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,182 Member
    I remember being young enough to think that the music in the car was coming from a tiny performance area with tiny performers behind the tiny box at the front of the car because the grown-ups would push buttons on that box to make different people talk and sing.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,742 Member
    I thought the Tooth Fairy might take more of my teeth out. I was terrified.
  • Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings
    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings Posts: 5,545 Member
    I used to think dysfunction was normal
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,492 Member
    edited March 2018
    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »
    I used to think dysfunction was normal

    wait.

    it's not ??

    ut oh.
  • Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings
    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings Posts: 5,545 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Bullet_with_Butterfly_Wings wrote: »
    I used to think dysfunction was normal

    wait.

    it's not ??

    ut oh.

    Who knew?!
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,586 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    I remember being young enough to think that the music in the car was coming from a tiny performance area with tiny performers behind the tiny box at the front of the car because the grown-ups would push buttons on that box to make different people talk and sing.

    I used to think that too!

    Way back in the olden days, when a tv station had technical difficulties, they'd put up a title card that said "Please Stand By". And I did. Literally stood right in front of the tv set.

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