When I was around six or seven, I asked my father what air was made of. He told me, straight-faced, that it was made of whipped egg whites and raisins.

Around same time, my brother asked what owls were made of, to which he answers 'popcorn and juice'

I never really got his sense of humor back then...

Truce

I used to think "Qui" was a name!! XD

Anon

I used to believe that Henry Winkler (who played The Fonz on that old show Happy Days), was called Henry WRINKLER. I thought this was an incredibly odd last name.
I actually debated this one with my mom, when I told her that Henry "Wrinkler" was playing in that Adam Sandler movie, "Waterboy"- it took her forever to convince me otherwise...

~Dominique~

When I was a kid my parents were going to take me to see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke. I did not know who they were or what the movie would be about. I asked Dad and he said they were a couple of 'clowns' that ran around smoking pot and running from the cops. Oh how I was disappointed when the movie started and they did not look like Bozo or Cookie. I really thought they would be clowns. :-(

Supervisor

I used to think I was the prettiest girl in the world and I felt really guilty for it.

Princesa

i used to believe that black people were made from chocolate and i saw some running one day and they were sweating and so i announced very loudly "look mummy they're melting" CRINGE!

Anon

My (much) older cousins are mixed-race. I am caucasian. When I was really little, I used wonder how old I would be before I "turned brown".

Alou D.

I used to think children had children's names and you would get a grown up name when you grew up. Or, i believed that grownups were born grownups and so they got their grown up names from the start. One or the other... i was always surprised when a woman had a name like lily of emma or jennifer. I would think, hey, she's got a child name, how strange.

Strange Crescent moon

I used to believe that men were only attracted to women with blonde hair and blue eyes and I felt I very lucky because I had blonde hair and blue eyes. The reason men married women with other colouration was because they either had bad luck marrying women they were attracted to or because they got tired of waiting around for a woman with blue eyes and blonde hair to be attracted to them in return and so the men opted into marrying someone else.
I don't have blonde hair and blue eyes anymore but rather green eyes and brown hair.

Cordelia

my mum told me that the 'public' park was closing so she could go home

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