I used to believe that when a commercial came on for a sweepstakes, when it said at the end, "Many will enter, few will win," I misheard it and thought that it was actually saying, "Many will enter, YOU will win." I'm still waiting to win something like they promised I would.
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire
- 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 was afraid of vacum cleaners. I thought there was an old guy inside waiting to eat you.— Kittenz r kool
- A common misheard lyric in BMTH’s ‘Shadow Moses’ is “THIS IS SANDPIT TURTLE!”— Oli
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon