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When I was little, I was terrifed of joining the Bluebirds (Camp Fire Girls) or the Brownies; I took the names very literally, and I didn't want to turn into either one!
stormy
When I was about 3 years old, my uncle took me fishing a creek by our house. Although I didn't catch any fish, I caught plenty of sticks. He had me convinced that I caught "fish sticks"! I was very excited and told my mom, "Look! I caught fish sticks!"
Rosebud
I used to think that being a Girl Scout was like being in the army, only for little girls, and that the troop leaders were like drill sergeants. I also thought Girl Scouts went camping every single Saturday, and would march through the woods in a single file like soldiers. I think I thought that both Girl and Boy Scouts were actual factions of the military. Needless to say, I was surprised when I became a Girl Scout, and we mostly did craft projects.
Dae
When playing any kind of Solitaire card game, if there was a choice I couldn't put a heart on a spade, or a spade on a heart. It always had to be hearts + clubs, and spades + diamonds. This was because hearts were show-offs, and if they got put with a spade they would gloat to diamonds, who really secretly fancied spades and actually deserved to be with a spade because it (diamonds) was a nice unassuming suit. Spades were hunky, Clubs were just gross and smelly. Hearts only deserved to be with Clubs.
I know it's mad but I still do it now and I'm 28.
Katie Ruth
I used to think that an air guitar was a real insrument that was a type of electric guitar and everyone who was cool had one. I used to really want one, and i continued beleiving it until i was in 4th grade, when someone had gotten an electric guitar and I said "Theres this guy i know who got a new air guitar!!!" After much laughing, my brother set me strait....
When I was 6 or 7 my brother who was 8 or 9 started collecting stamps and so I wanted to. He got a stamp album for me and an envelope of used stamps and in the album was a diagram of how to fix the stamps with a little sticky paper hinge and in the demo on the back of the stamp in the illustration was printed 'Reverse side of stamp'. So I carefully wrote on the back of each stamp this logo thinking that is what you had to do. It took me ages and all I got from it was a lot of humiliation.
IvanBerti
When I was small I used to believe that ships in bottles were actually built in the bottles with small tools.
The first time I saw how it was actually made I kind of laughed at myself saying "...haha...yeah of course....".
Dani
when i was little i used to think that air guitar was an actual type of guitar!lol!
I used to think that if anyone left the top off of a felt tip pen, then the pen would suffocate, so I'd go to great lengths to make sure everyone put the tops on within 2 minutes of using them!
JD
when i was little, my hobby was to march around the room. my mum would get annoyed with this. so, one day, my mom told me that MARCHing could only happen in MARCH. she told me that if i did it in any other month, all the monkeys in the world would die. and since i found out that spider monkeys are endangered, i thought i had killed them all, marching around the room like that!
Jessyca
I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!
Judith Ann
As a kid I desperately wanted to be a Girl Guide, but I thought you had to be born one, like being an Orthodox Jew or a Catholic. I couldn't wait till I grew up, could convert to being a Girl Guide, and get to wear a blue uniform all day and earn badges.
emmline
while I was attending violin classes,I used to believe that playing violin needs long fingers without which its difficult to learn.
raji
My mom tells me that when we used to play hide and seek, I would site in the middle of the floor and close my eyes. If I couldn't see myself, then neither could anyone else!
Kathy - Florida
When i was 6 i saw some people parachuteing on TV.
I thought to myself "I'd like to try that" so later that day, i attached myself to 100 or so tesco bags and jumped off my bunkbed.
Luckily i only broke my ankle
Bubz
When I was a kid I couldn't understand for the life of me how skateboards turned. I never owned one and I thought the trucks were immobile, solid pieces of metal bolted to the deck. My best guess was that when you leaned into a corner, it placed more weight on the wheels on one side and made that side slow down causing you to turn, kinda like how a tank turns. I didn't have a full understanding of how skateboards turned until I was at least 9 years old!
When I was little, I didn't realize that you needed a special material to make a parachute... I took a towel and put a corner between two toes on both of my feet, then I held the other two corners with my hands. I jumped off of one of the beds in my grandmother's house... and I landed flat on my stomach. SLAM!
I thought I could float like a skydiver :'(
Brother, saw seen too many westerns were people got lassoed and then pulled off onto their bottoms. So one day, believing this always worked, tried to lasso me off my bike as we played. The next day my parents got called into my school to be questioned about the rope burn around my neck and the bump on my head.
vera
When I was 5, my mom used to tell me that I couldn't become a ballerina when I grew up unless I ate my peas, as they acted like ball berings in my toes. I used to believe this quite strongly apparently, as a few years later, when my little sister had been signed up for ballet lessons, I told her the exact same thing!
Neko
As a kid my brother was very concrete in his thinking and not understanding the game of Simon Says he misinterpreted the directions. So when I told him to stand on one foot, he tried to balance on one foot and put his other foot on top of the foot he was balancing on.
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