This isn't my moment, but my mother's-

My mom's club was planning on providing a BBQ, and everyone was assigned what to bring. Well, in the middle of it all, my mom said "I'll bring the condoms!" when she really meant condoments. The boys hooted and laughed, I still don't think she lived that one down. lol

Anon

when i was younger i found a condom and came to the comnclusion that it was used as a raincoat by caterpillars.

kimberly vickers, uk

I watched a lot of cartoons as a kid, and some of the older cartoons make references to "rubbers." I always thought they meant rubber galoshes, so when a cousin finally explained that men wore rubbers during sex, I couldn't help but wonder what use galoshes were.

Cyan

Some moron stuck an unwrapped, still rolled condom in my lunch box in middle school. I knew what they were, theoretically, but didn't realize they came lubricated. I concluded that this one, being all slimy, was used. Along with being completely grossed out, I decided that guys must have to roll them back off like pantyhose when they were done. I didn't get straightened out on this until almost my 21st birthday. :)

T

I had a teenage cousin that I thought was the coolest guy in the world. He had a poster on the back of his door showing a woman in a nurses uniform holding an unrolled condom (I think it was an ad poster to convince people to use condoms).

Anyway, my mother is a nurse and I immediately thought that to use a condom it had to be put on you by a nurse!

Christopher

Once, as a teenager I had my cousins over. As they were snooping in my room they found a few condoms I had picked up from a concert earlier in the year. My 9 year old cousin looked at it puzzlingly and said " OH, I know what these are! These are those wee-wee protectors aren't they? To hold in the white stuff?" I couldn't help but laugh.

Rob Dozois

When I was little, I thought a condom was a hotdog cooker. Well one day I decided to put a hotdog in the condom, and the condom in the microwave. Lets just say heat and rubber don't mix well.( the plastic stuff melted.)

Ti

one time when i was little (4-5) i was searching for x-mas presents and in my dads drawer i found a box of condoms i imediatly thought they were ballons and took them to my dad to blow them up for me. He told me they are special ballons for mummys and daddys.
for the next 2 years or so i thought all parents trained to be ballon art sculptors. and unfortunatly i asked my dad to make a horse for me out of one of them. i still shudder every now and them

one warped guy

when i was about 7 or 8, i went in my brother's room, and he was around 19...and i found this box, with Lots of condoms in it...packed in their rappers...and i opened one, and i blew it up..and i ran around the house shaking it, and holding it up high..i was very proud of my red balloon..i remember it was red...and then my dad came, and took it away from me. later he told my brother something..and then my bro didn't talk to me for 1 full day

Alexandra

When I was little I remember going to a public toilet with my dad and asking what the vending machine on the wall sold. He said "Err...chewing gum". I was so upset that he wouldn't buy me a packet, so many nice flavours, strawberry, banana, chocolate. It was only a few years later that I found out lolipops would perhaps have been a better description for them!
Yes, flavoured condoms!

Jess

i used to believe that a condom was a body part. In elementary school, one of the boys said that there was a condom on the floor so i thought that some kid lost it and had to be rushed to the hospital.

Erin

When I was 9y.o. I found an extra large clear balloon in a foil packet in my parents bedroom and thought I'd show off my brilliant find to everyone on my school bus.
Sure enough my friends were impressed until some 12y.o. told everyone on the bus what it really was. I was so embarassed, got off the bus crying and ran home.

To make matters worse the next day the headmaster took the 12yo boy out of class to apologise to me, HOW EMBARASSING AGAIN!!!

Scaussie

When I was 6, I saw a condom on the ground in my neighborhood and my friends told me and my sister not to touch it. Somehow I believed that a condom was a "kingdom" where little people lived, and I wasn't allowed to touch it because I might kill the little civilians who lived in the "kingdom". I brought it up about ten years later, only to find that my sister believed the same thing.

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When i was about 6 my mum and me were sitting on a park bench and i a used condom on the floor, but i thought it was a balloon so i said 'i think some one's had a party here' my mam looked at me shocked because she thought i was using a euphamism for sex before i said 'because theres a balloon on the floor'. i think she was relieved.

Anon

When I was about 6 I went into a hotel toilet with my mother. It was a fairly posh place and they had bowls set up on the counter next to the plants. The bowls held very nicely wrapped complimentary condoms. With the sweet tooth I still have I immediately thought they were sweets and proceeded to nearly empty one of the bowls into my pocket. Later on while we were driving in the car I whip out one of my lollies and start to unwrap it excited for the free sweets I'd found. My mother nearly had a heart attack then almost died of laughter.

Kitty

I remember my boyfriend telling me that when he was little (about 6) he thought that a condom was a round creature with little spikes all over it. One time when he was playng on the park some other kid was mean to him so he called him a condom, he parents took him home straight away to show him exactly what a condom was lol.

Anon

My friend didn't know what a condom was, (he thought it was some sort of candy), so one day he told his mom, "When you go to the grocery store, could you get me some mint-flavored condoms?" You should have seen the look on his mom's face...

Minty

I used to think that some men wore condoms all the time instead of underwear - Like some men wore briefs, some wore boxers, some wore condoms. I also assumed there was a hole in the tip of it so they could go to the bathroom without taking it off.

F

When I was five, I saw a used condom in the park. Since there were quite a lot of trees in that particular spot in the park, I also thought that there must have been snakes living there. Putting two and two together, I concluded that condoms were worn by snakes to keep their tails warm, and felt sorry for the poor unfortunate snake that had lost his tail-warmer...

Sam

When I was little, I found a box of condoms in my parent's bedroom drawers. For some reason I thought it was a pack of cigarattes, and I thought my parents smoked, to my great horror! So the next day I whispered to my sister secretly, sis ...I think mommy or daddy smokes ... Mom overheard us and asked me why would I think that and i said I found the cigarattes in their bedroom. Confused, she asked me to show it to her ..which I did. She snatched them from my hands and just told me quickly they aren't cigarattes ...but never explained what they are. I believed they smoke until a few years ago, talk about embarassment!

Mika