I used to believe…
When my niece was young, I asked her the following question:
If olive oil comes from crushed olives, and peanut oil comes from crushed peanuts; where does baby oil come from?
Form that moment on my niece would not let my sister-in-law moisturize her skin with baby oil. When my niece finally told my sis-in-law why, I was the pariah of their household for several months.
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I once told my twin sister that the YKK you see on the zippers was the sign for a zipper making cult...and she believed me.
I used to believe…
When we got our first microwave back in the 70's we were always told you couldn't put metal in it. I thought that meant you couldn't even use a fork to reach in and get you food.
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I used to believe that there was a little man inside of the fridge that used a hammer to make the crushed ice that came out of the ice maker.
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You know those christmas ornaments that are houses and stuff? Well, when I was little, I used to think little people lived in them and if I looked hard enough in the windows, I could see them. I was dissapointed at the fact that they always hid from me though...
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My granny had air vents in the floor of her house. She always told me never to drop anything in them or the house would blow up. Then one day I accientally dropped one of my toys in it, and I screamed and cries and tried in vain to retrieve it. The I told her what had happened saying we needed to get out of the house and all she said was "Well..maybe we'll be ok."
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i used to believe the sound from a piano came from the keys hitting a stuff called "sploosh"{wierd, huh?}.
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When my daughter was little she was afraid to go near the back door. We finally discovered it was because she was afraid the stopper wouldn't work and the 'giraffes' would get her. It was an old draughty house and we had a draught stopper in the doorway!
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I used to believe…
Bouncing on my bed and watching houses through the window I was sure they were literally bouncing with me.
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When I was younger, I used to think that if the vaccuum was strong enough to pick up Barbie Doll shoes off the floor, I too could be sucked up.
I used to believe…
when i was young, my mon always didn't allow me to put up umbrella under roofs because it will make me become shorter and shorter. really? i remember i still believed in it when i was in junior high...haha, funny...maybe that's the reason i don't like umbrella...lol
I used to believe that there was a little man, like an elf or something, that lived in the refrigerator to turn the light on and off. I believed this same thing about car doors that locked/unlocked automatically.
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My cousin told me that the house creaked at because it was getting smaller and that we got smaller with it. And in the morning the house got bigger again...I think I believed her up until I turned eleven!
I used to believe their was a hidden room somewhere in my house where an office guy sat and ran our electricity.
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When I was a child we moved house quite a lot. I used to belive that there was treasure stored in the ceiling in every house & that if i could just get inside the man hole in the ceiling it would all be mine! I never did manage to get a look up there.....
i used to believe that if you left your door open when you slept at night, ninjas would come in and attack you. i have no idea where it came from, but i managed to convince my sister and my best friend that it was true. for about three months we would spend at least a half an hour before we went to bed practicing kicks and punches in case the ninjas managed to open the door.
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One time our house was robbed, and my birth certificate was stolen. As a result, I believed that the Hamburgler was going to come through the window at night and steal my birth. The only protection was to make a nest out of blankets and have my hair in a braid. If I did that, the Hamburgler wouldn't bother me.
I was nice enough to perform this little service for my sister, too, while she was too young to braid her own hair.
I could never figure out how my mother could find me when I hid under the kitchen table. Also, when I was 3 or 4, I thought I could hide behind a pole like cartoon characters...if I couldn't see them, then they coudn't see me. The key was to make sure that I couldn't see beyond the pole.
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Most smoke detectors have a blinking red LED light to show that they're on and working. When I was younger, I was terrified of this light because I thought that if I saw it while it was blinking, there was going to be a fire. My fear was so bad that if I noticed the light while in bed, I would hide under the covers so that I wouldn't see it and there would be no fire.
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When I was little i was at the babysitters house and standing on the patio looking at the grass, for some reason i said it looked like the sea. So they all told me it was and that there were sharks in it. Being about 3 years old, i believed them and didnt touch the grass for months.
