I Used To Think That Jacuzzis Used To Have Sharks And I Would Never Get In One.

Tiffany

I used to believe all liquids were water-based with things added to it to make different kinds of liquids.

Anon

I was told that if I ever drank puddle water from the driveway I would get polio and have to live in an iron lung.

J, Corbett Jr.

On one particular visit with my grandparents, when I was very young, I remember playing on the living room floor and finding a little piece of clear plastic that had apparently broken off of something. I was very excited, however, and ran into the kitchen where the adults were so I could show them the piece of "dry water" I had found. They kidded me about that for years...hey, it made sense at the time.

Anon

when i was younger i went to the beach once with my mother,i asked her where waves came from and she said that when whales wave their big fins, that creates the waves. And i beleived her for a long time!

Anon

I met an ex-girlfriend and we went for a walk along the seafront, the sea was really rough. Anyway, I spoke to her a week later and told her that the sea was so rough that even fish were drowning, it was on the news. She believed me, bless her.

Her name - Vicky

As a small child a thought the world was a large ball of water, with only a crust of land around it. I didn't understand why, if I stood near the edge of the sea or a river, the ground didn't cave in underneath me because it was too thin!

Joe

I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.

Flipper

Once my mom put a cup of iced water on the table. Due to a process that we all know now, there was some water around and under the cup. My four-year-old sister pointed to it and said," Mum! the cup's melting!"

Anon

When my daughter was 4 years old, she watched a tv show on the volcanos of Hawaii. They showed the lava, or "lavie", flowing into the ocean. For about 6 months after that she was convinced that "lavie" would come out of the hot water fawcet when ever she turned it on...

Annie

I thought that all the Rivers were numbered (in the way roads are) - as I knew about the River Seven, Tens and Fourth (Severn, Thames and Forth)

benjymous

I used to believe that when we road in our open boat over the ocean and we hit a hard wave, that the boat was hitting the bottom
(ground, floor of the ocean.) When I got over and discovered the really true terror of fathoms and fathoms beneath me, I couldn't ever get on a boat again that crossed that 26 miles to Catalina.

Super Secret Sally

A very early misconception, I thought the ocean floor was made of some kind of plastic grating I could fall through, which needless to say, kept me out of the ocean... I'm not sure where I got that from but I do have older brothers

mike

When I was about four, I took my first trip to the petrifying fountain in Knaresborough. There were quite a few small teddy bears in the fountain, turned to stone. I didn't realise that this wasn't NORMAL water, so I thought that if I were to get my favourite teddy wet, it would turn to stone.

lynne

I remember while brushing my teeth my mother telling me we had well water in which I believed that an acutual whale was swimming in the water that we used.

lala

When I was in grade 2 I was at Nanaimo B.C with my family. I was looking off the dock into the ocean and saw a HUGE bath plug at the bottom of the ocean. I told eveyerone afterwards that i had seen the plug to the ocean, and that if it was pulled the ocean water would get drained. I still think that if you pull that thing, there will no longer be a pacific ocean. Im 15 now.

Ocean Plug

When I was young, I thought that the sea had a giant plug and that you could let out all the water. I was convinced I'd seen it on a nature programme

Mari

For years I believed that there where populations of tiny, tiny people who lived around any water at all. They also lived in a vastly different time warp where time itself was super fast, so 1 of our seconds was a lifetime. So wiping up a spill on the counter involved wiping out the water supply for countless cities, and spilling water created huge tsunami's that wiped out whole civilizations.

Still have fun with puddles

When my lil brother was a tot he wandered away from our beach picnic....slowly wading himself into the water...up to his head....when rescued he replied, "THAT WATER TRIED TO DROWN ME"...

waldronar

I used to think that the shallow part of the lake was a different type of watter than the deep part of the lake.

Steve