my sisters once convinced me that people had stuck razor blades in the waterslides at magic mountain (adelaide amusement park), thus slicing up any unwary children. the practicalities of installing razors into the slides whilst sliding down never entered my head, nor did the fact that my sisters continually emerged unsliced. i think they actually just didn't want their little brother tagging along.

bob

On long road trips(long as in across the river to wal-mart, 5 min. at the most) my younger sister would keep asking, "Are we still in America?" She was about 4-5 at the time.

Ashley

A friend of mine, Ola, used to think that if you leave your home (to go shopping or to school ext.) you won't be able to come back, because you won't knowe with one is yours.

Maja ^_^

at the St. Louis Zoo there are these big brown rocks that are shaped like huge potatoes stacked on top of each other that are around the Zebra and Camel areas. My brother told me that they were grown by the Jolly Green Giant to keep the animals in.

rita

When I was a young child I thought that the huge statues in the museum came to life at night when the museum closed and they wanted to trap me in the museum with them. I had such a strong belief in that notion that I dreamed about it for many years. The last time I had that dream was when I was in my late teens. I am 51 yrs old now and I can still remember that dream. Silly I know but than again, childhood ain't easy.

Anon

My daughter is 6 and asked me recently why I go into the tanning bed that stands up. She said the stand up ones are only for boys and the lay down ones for girls. Since boys stand up when they pee.

Kat

When My cousin and I were kids, he told me that "IceCapades" (a live ice skating show that you could go see) was really gross and had lots of naked people. It wasn't until years later that I realized that he had confused IceCapades with "Escapades" (an adult cable network).

Joe

When I was small, I used to be dragged along with my parents to see and Orchestra play classical music. If you've ever seen a really "passionate" musician, you'll know that sometimes they'll make some strange faces while they play. I thought this meant that playing the violin or whatever hurt, and I wondered why no one went up to help hold up the violin because it was so heavy, and they had to hold it up for so long.

Sarah

Thanks to Willy Wonka, i thought that if i went to the very top floor in an elevator i would crash right through the roof, and i wouldnt be as lucky to be unharmed.

poisen

I used to think I was going to fall through the ice and drown when I was ice skating and heard the ice cracking. I found out 35 years later that the ice skating area was just about a 5" depression on a park lawn that was flooded for skating during the winter.

Akron

Until I was about 13 or so, my Dad had me convinced that he could magically sniff out McDonald's restaurants. He said their fries had a special smell that made it easy.

Athazagoraphobia

I used to believe that the "Now Hiring" sign in restaurants really said "Now Hurrying" and so everytime we passed such a restaurant I would say "Let's go there because they are hurrying!"

Dave

In certain waterparks, they'll be a "lazy river", which is basically a slow-flowing "river" which flows around or through the park. It's about four feet deep and very popular with the elderly, and parents with young children. Well, when I was about four years old, my cousin (five at the time) told me that the grates at the bottom held sharks that fed on toes. Ever since then, i've always lifted my feet above the grates.

Miss Kangaroo, 15

Whell when i was about 4 we would always drive by a power substation when we would go and get groceries. I thought, living in florida, that the power substation was really an orange juice factory and it sent orange juice to all the houses thru the wires. We still joke about that one. (^_^)

Chris Rhodes

As a kid, I was scared to death of turnstiles, thinking they were put there just to scare and endanger people. I was scared to death that they could trap me or impale me, etc.

Darlene

When I was 2 or 3 my mom went into KFC and I didn't want to go. So my mom said, "The big man will get you." I pointed at the KFC man on the wall (THE MAN ON THE KFC LOGO) and said, "Is the big man him?" My mom said yes and I ran in!!!!

Anon

I believed that all the McDonalds characters lived and worked at McDonalds. I thought birdie and hamburgler ducked behind the counter handing the cashiers the ketchup packets. Then Ronald was in the back with the purple guy telling all the workers what to do.

Amber Fryer

when we would pass by "the crying lady"(a statue of a woman crying for veterans) i thought that she had been real and after becoming so upset over so many deaths she got frozen.i would always pray that she would come un-frozen.

laurarey

When I was 10, my family went on vacation and stayed at Circus Circus in Las Vegas. One of the sideshow acts was "Gorilla Girl," where a "scientist" changed a woman into a gorilla. For some reason I was terrified...totally bought into the illusion...especially when the "gorilla" broke her cage door and rushed the stage. I was outside before my poor father knew what to do!

Lisa

I used to believe that if i dug a hole under my fence in my back garden it would lead me to Narnia.

Anon