I used to wonder why the oven didn't set food on fire!

danielle

i never could work out how dishwashers worked. surely all that spinning around like a washing machine would mean that you'd be continually replacing all your plates, cups etc?!

graham

When I was 4 I used to pack up all my barbies in little boxes and the put them on a doll stroller then stand on my moms bed and wait until a fire started so that I would be ready to leave the house, But it never happened.

stressed child

I didn't understand that you bought a house where you wanted. I thought that when you wanted to buy a house, you would go looking for one. When you found one you liked, then you would trade houses with that family. When we moved, I thought that we traded houses with the other family and I asked them how they liked my old bedroom!

Anon

I use to watch my food being cooked in the microwave. Well when I was about 4, my dad told me that if I watched the microwave when it was cooking my food, I would get high. And up until I think last week I believed him until someone told me otherwise.

gulible

after repeatedly hearing the phrase 'shut the door, there's a draft' I quickly decided a draft was a large monster, not unlike a lion, it's apprearance imminent. I always shut the door really fast.

rae

When I was little, and I still do now, I used to believe that our hatstand in our hallway was real. Everytime I passed the hall, I'd run real fast so he wouldn't get me. Mum had fatted it up with all her coats, hats and scarfs, so it looked like a real giant. Because of this weight, it would constantly fall over, and I was really afraid after I was standing next to it when it fell on me. I thought it was about to eat me! I'm still scared of it now. It is PURE EVIL!~ it will kill us all in our sleep! I still hate that hatstand.

Jess- + Hi Lucy H!! I found the site!

When I was young I went on Holiday with my mother, I went to put my clothes away in the cupboard and saw 2 white balls in there. I asked my mum what are those and she said "they are moth balls" I looked at her really strange as I really thought they were a moths balls and they had left them behind. My mum never lets me forget this.lmao

Young and stupid

When I heard people mention sealing wax I thought it was ceiling wax. I couldn't fathom why anyone would need to wax their ceiling.

Anon

I used to believe that if i but on 10 years younger cream then i would turn into a baby again! me and my brothers used to dare eachother to put it on!!

Ruby Tuesday

My son currently believes that when the water flow to the tub or sink is slow (like when the washing machine, dishwasher or toilets are also filling) that we need to pay the water bill. The last time he said it was slow we told him we could only pay part of the bill this month and that is why it's slow. He asked us to please pay all the bill tomorrow.

Anon

I used to think that if you put something in the VCR it would show up on the TV so one day I was very disappointed when I put a piece of popcorn in it and it didn't work.

Monkey

When I was in that "Why" faze all kids go through, and my mom was feeling especially frazzled, she once told me that inside every light bulb there was a fairy, and that sometimes when they burned out, the fairyies exploded, and that was why you could sometimes see a burnt mark on the outside of the lightbulb.

del

I use to believe that Santa Claus brought the TV Guide every night because every morning when I woke up, there would always be a new one in the living room.

I know, it's weird. Don't ask.

Anon

When I was about 2 or 3 and my mom would run the vacuum cleaner, I would hum along at what I thought to be the exact pitch. She used to tell me that if I hit matched it exactly, the vacuum would blow up. To this day, when I hear a vacuum, I hum along, but think of that and smile.

Amy

When I was really young I would get mad at anything that I ran into. If I ran into a wall or piece of furniture, I'd kick it back, as if it was it's fault, not mine. I would say something like "the wall hit me!" Or "stupid wall!" The habit got passed on to my friend and she once stuck her tongue out at a bar above the slide that she bumped into.

Anon

When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.

Missuss D

Water is in the walls, that's where it comes from, and if you put a hole in the wall, it will rush out and drown you. I think I got this from an episode of Incredible Hulk where they were stuck underground and water was filling up the room. Also, from Amityville Horror (I didn't know it was blood). My dad was about to drill a hole in the wall and I started crying and begging him not to do it because we would drown!

Chloe

When I was a little girl, our water heater only gave us about 10 min worth of hot water to take a shower/bath. Well one time I was taking a shower and the hot water ran out. I was really upset because I wasn't finished. So my logic was if hot water turned cold, the cold water must turn hot. So I sat in the tub with the cold water running. I can assure you that it never got hot, not even remotly warm. I was all pruned up and my lips were blue by the time I figured that out.

Natalie

My little sister and I used to take my mom's used tampon applicators out of the garbage and use them as pretend horns. My mother told us not to blow in them because they had been in her bird. We always believed she was just telling us that because she didn't want us going through the garbage to get our horns!

Kim