I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to me

Anon

i used to believe that you never stopped growing. therefore, once you reached one hundred, you acquired superhuman strength and size. when some thugs broke our car windshield, i thought an hundred year old accidently leaned on it.

manda

When my stepson was 5 he said he wanted to be a prawn cracker when he grew up. Puzzled, I asked him to explain - he said "you know - those boys who walk around town carrying radios playing loud music". I eventually worked out he meant "punk rocker"!

Marina

i used to think that what age you were was the time you went to bed, so 7pm when 7 years old, 8pm when 8 etc. - i couldn't wait for my 12th birthday.

harry freeze

When I was little and everyone would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up ... One day I responded excitedly with, "I want to be a Hooker!"

Of course everyone was shocked. *Ahem* I of course was talking about TJ Hooker!! The police show that Heather Locklear was on back in the 80's.

Lexus

My grandfather was missing his thumb on the right hand due to an accident that happened when he used to work in the oil fields. Even though we had been very close from the time I was born, I never noticed this until I was 5 years old, so well had he adapted to using his maimed hand. I noticed it suddenly one day while watching him use a typewriter in his office. The very next day, he had to leave the upper plate of his dentures overnight at his dentist's for repair. I decided that the thumb also was removeable and that this was a normal part of becoming an adult; your body parts would be replaced by larger, detachable ones.

carson

When I was a kid, I believed that when I grew up, I would forget all about being a kid. I wrote notes and messages to my future self, to remind me...

Sam

When I was about 6, my mother told me I could be anything when I got older. I told her I wanted to be a dinosaur or the color orange. I am 21 now with a math degree and I still destine to be "orange!"

The Dirtie D

Migets were people who were bad when they were kids and there parents didn't let them grow up.

Teresa

My nephew used to think that when people got old, they developed a foreign accent. This is because both sets of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, and they (and the rest of the family of their generation) all had accents. So he thought it was part of getting old. This was revealed to the family when he was about 4, and one of his mother's friends brought her Dutch boyfriend to the house for dinner. My nephew said in amazement, "He's young, and he has an accent already!"

Ronne

I used to think that in order to grow, your parents took you to the doctor and he cut off your feet, put in some more leg, then put your feet back on.

This scared me to bits. When I told my mom about this and other weird beliefs I had, she asked... "Why did you ask me about this? I would have set your mind at ease." Of course, I had never asked her! If I had, sure as shooting, she would have exclaimed, "Oh thank you for reminding me, I have to make an appointment for you!"

V

When I was five I asked my mom if I would ever be as old as my older brother. She replied, "Yes, of course." This made me happy. I reasoned: If I would some day be his age, then some day later I might be older than him and I might be able to beat him up then.

Ed

When I was a little girl I very much wanted peirced ears. I thought that when you reached a certain age, you "grew" the little holes in your ears. I had no clue that you had to go to a special place and have your ears peirced there.

Kate

i use to believe that adults all belonged to a secret club, and when you went to sleep at night all the adults got together to talk about us kids (especially me) and conspire against them ...

as i got older i revised my belief so that it was just women that belonged to this secret club, and they conspired against men ...

i'm still half convinced this club exists ...

Anon

when i was a youngester i thought that when we grew old, we'd turn into chimps or apes. the reason being was that when i was young i saw alot of old women with hairy chins

Jazz

When I was a kid, my mom announced one day that my grandfather had retired that day, and we were going to have a party. I got really upset that we were going to have a party, I thought it was cruel. I couldn't figure out why everyone was being so mean, in that they were all so happy about the retirement. When it neared time for grand dad to arrive, I was terrified - I didn't know how I would treat him. You see... I thought that "retired" was the same as "retarded", and that grampa had somehow spontaineously become mentally retarded!

jt

When my little sister was 5 she used to have a crush on an older man. We told her that when she was old enough to have a boyfriend he would be too old for her. She then asked if we could put him in the refrigerator to save him for later.

Dee

When I was very little, an older family friend would always talk about how she was "shrinking" and that one day I'd be bigger than her. Well, I took this information and from my very active imagination, I concluded that people grow as big as giants when they turn 100. Then, they start to go backwards, and they shrink until they become babies again. This cycle would continue until the person died from being shot or some completely unnatural thing. I really was a strange kid.

Meghan

I remember being 5 years old and seeing the previews for the movie PRETTY WOMAN that was soon coming to theathers. And I remember hearing the word prostitute and I didn't think it was such a bad word. So the next day in class our teacher had us all stand up in frount of the class room and say what we wanted to be when we grew up. Well little old me went stood up infrount of the hole class and said "WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A PROSTITUTE"!!! I'll never forget all the kids faces. And boy did my teacher get mad she called my parents and told them what I said and I got in troble for it lol.

bReNdA T.

I used to believe that any grown woman received the title of 'mom.' I didn't understand why my parents continued to shoot down my dreams of becoming, as I put it, "a mom with no kids."

Amy