at home: around the house

We have a table in the living room and my mom used to like to keep the legs on pieces of tape that were on the floor. I thought that if I moved the table off the tape, monkeys could jump out of all the drawers and eat me.

I used to believe that the outlets in the wall were really like "doggie doors" to ants because I figured those were the only things small enough to fit in there. I imagined this huge ant kingdom crawling around my house in the walls, I wanted to go there so badly so I put my finger in the outlet and quickly realized they carried electricity and not ants...ouch!

Until the age of 4, I would commonly ask my parents to put the "hands" on the vcr player to pause it. How are you suppposed to know the difference between "pause" and "paws" at that age?!

For some reason I thought the agitator of a washing machine was properly called "a donkey". I developed my own theory to explain this. I thought that in the days before electricity, people would run their washers by having a donkey run 'round the machine in circles and generate power. Then, the agitator in a modern machine was named in honor of the faithful clothes washing donkeys of old.

Im sure you have all been short one sock of a pair when you're done doing your laundry... When I was young I believed that elves took my socks..

My perents used to have an indoor ficus tree. I belived if I went behind it, I would be transported to another dimension. In this new world there were huge monsters made of mud!

When i was little i swapped bedrooms with my older brother to scare me he told me that men in kilts danced around the room at night when he was in his bed so i believed him so i wouldnt sleep in my own room id sleep with my mum and for years i despretly wanted my old room back.

When i was little (about 4)my dad got sick of me using a nightlight do he said next time i would use it it would blow up the sad thing was i was afrad of the light till i was about 10

When i was little, i used to think there was a little man in the refridgerator that would turn the light on and off for you. I would open and close it real fast to try to see him, but i never did. lol

I used to believe that animals could pop out of my walls and would eat me so I went in the hallway and slept on the floor or I would go in the kitchen and climb out the window

When I was about nine, my cousin told me that when a smoke detector blinks red, it means there is a fire. I went and asked my dad if it was true and he told me it just meant the detector is working. However I still can't look at a smoke detector. If I do, and it blinks red, I freak out still

Well, one time I had a nightmare while I was sitting at a desk, when I looked into the garbage can it swallowed me whole. So a few weeks after I would try my hardest not to come within two feet of a garbage can and always tried to toss things into it, when I missed I either left it on the floor or picked it up, threw it in and ran into the other room..

when i was about 6, and my dads boss would call our house my dad would turn the television down i thought he was trying to make the living room sound bigger, to impress his boss.

when i was 5 at my house to start a fire all you have to do was stick a key thing in the igniter and the fire would start. Well that year we went camping in the woods(i brought the key with us) and when it got time to start the fire i asked my dad, "dad where do you put the key." and held it up to him!!

i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk

i used to believe if you stuck a crystal ball in a frreezer then wished for a sundae it would be there the next morning in place of the crystal

(note my mom used to have a ball made out of glass with gell in it but it looked crystal to me back then!)