body parts

My father told me that the reason that we had belly buttons was so that we could put salt in them for eating celery in bed. I believed him until I was about nine years old.

I had a babysitter in grade school who I asked why viens my are blue if my blood is red. She told me this was simply because y mblood was blue in my body but became red the instant it was mixed with oxygen. This made plenty of sense because bruises, which I classified as cuts under my skin, were blue too.

I used to believe that all blind people wore sunglasses because they had no eyes at all, which is why they were blind

I had a friend when I was younger who told me your tailbone was there because all people are born with tails, but they chop it off at the hospital before you come home. I asked my parents later that night if all humans once had a tail, and I guess they thought I meant millions of years ago so they told me humans did have tails at one point. I went around for years believing I once had a furry tail.

I used to think that when a laser got near your eye you would go blind and have do have surgery done on yourself in which someone would just cut you open and close you up,and that you would die shortly after.I thought this becuase of what a girl told me in Kindergarten (She was like in 4th.) I now have a phobia of lasers.

my mom told me that when i sniffed the boogers back up my nose i was sniffing them into my brain. this was her way to get me to lbow my nose. i still sniff a lot anyways.

My mother told me that if I did not keep my ears clean, potatoes would grow in my ear canals. The thougt terrified me.

My Opa (grandfather) used to threaten me with two things: unscrewing my nipples, which would make my arms fall off, and unscrewing my belly button, which would make my bottom fall off. Of course, I was terrified! :)

I was told in Sunday school that males had one rib less than females and the reason was that Eve was made from Adam's rib.

Before ultrasound was able to determine sex of a fetus, I suggested to my parents that an x-ray could be taken of the fetus and count the ribs. Naturally they thought that was funny and so I never forgot the humiliation.

Growing up in Calgary, Canada, it was a rare occasion for me to see a coloured person. When I was quite young I saw a black man walking down the street. I remarked to my father that "he must be REALLY old!" when he asked why I would think that, I explained that people's skin must become darker as people age. It seemed perfectly logical at the time.

When I was little, I asked my mother why some people were dark brown while I was sort of pink. She said it was because they had something in their skin (like what makes us tan) that made them darker. I was very surprised in the my school's locker room to find that my classmates were brown all over and not sporting a dramatic tan line.

I used to believe that little girl's pony tails were crooked because their parents were terrible at fixing hair. Now that I have a daughter, I realize it is because she WON'T SIT STILL!

I used to think navel was a dirty word. Somehow thought it was where babies came from. So whenever I heard the words "navel orange" or "naval" (pertaining to the Navy) I thought people were talking dirty.

I where about four years old and I happend to see my fathers private parts. I belived my dad had a door handle! I was so scared that dad had someone inside of him. I asked my mum and she explened to me about wee wees and pee pees for the first time. They still make jokes about this.

I thought that when the doctor tapped your knee to check your reflexes, that your leg was not suposed to move. I would hold it as still as possible. They never said anything was wrong with me.

Whenever i heard that a football player had been penalised i was always amazed that football had such harsh punishments. Turns out that their groins were still intact.