when i was about 8 or 9 years old, i thought some one would take a poll of every thing you buy, and send the right commercials to your T.V. it never struck me as odd that some commercials were for things we didn't want. i also thought if we bought something from a commercial, we would stop getting that commercial. i remember once getting really annoyed because one commercial was being played over and over, and i said to my mom, "can we just go buy that, so they'll leave us alone?" and she was really confused.
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- i thought aliens would come to earth year 2000 because of a commercial were an alien ate a hot dog— ulle
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne
- When I was younger I thought that if I ate Gusher's, my head would turn into fruit, like in the commercialsAnon