I used to believe…
That at meetings adults sat on plastic chairs surrounding a large piece of meat
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Those unfortunate people who worked in banks only got a holiday on bank holidays.
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When I was six, my dad (I now know jokingly) told me I was adopted. I believed it for a decade until we had a row about something completely unrelated that climaxed in my screaming "YOU DON'T CARE BECAUSE I'M ADOPTED!" Ugh!
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My Dad (who was in the airforce) told me that when his office hole punch got full of circles, that they had to be emptied into a bag and sent to a factory to be packaged as confetti to help the government pay for all the aeroplanes because they didn't have much money. I was at university years later, in the city that Dad had said the factory was in, and I asked someone if they knew where the government confetti factory was.
I used to believe that true love was eternal.
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I used to believe that the taller you were the older you were, so of all my mates I was the oldest because I was the tallest.
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when we were young my gran threatend to call the man with the van with the yellow wheels, who would come to take us away
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my sister thought that when people came to stay with us - friends, family, etc - they actually slept in the same bed as our parents. She then drew pictures of this at school when asked to describe what had happened at home that week.
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My mum told me and my brother that we were adopted and that our real mothers were witches. Thanks mum.
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my uncle got sent to prison on the Isle of Wight. I thought that he had been sent into exile.
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I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to me
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that when I growed up I would be a footballer but that was obviously rubbish as I can't play for toffee
I used to belive that my mum and dad lived together cause they were brother and sister
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My Mum told me she was 21. Every year. I was about 10 when I worked it out, which makes my birth a tweenage pregnancy.
i used to believe that kids were born kids and adults were born adults, there was no convincing me otherwise until i was about 13
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My Dad used to operate machines at work. The only machines I knew of were slot machines so I was of the belief that Dad played bandits all day to make a living.
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When I was little I used to think that my uncle lived in a bus shelter.
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This is a story that my mother tells - it happened to my cousin when he was 5. Once day my cousin came down to visit his auntie and uncle (my parents). He asked my father what he did in the day. At the time he worked at an oil refinery, but decided that the process of refining hydrocarbons was too difficult for a child to understand. Instead he told him that he worked at a rabbit factory, and pointed out the window to one of the tall stacks at the refinery - telling my cousin that he stood up on a metal tower and counted the rabbits in the fields below to make sure none ran away. My cousin believed this for a further two decades, and even now (at the age of forty) he still goes bright red when its brought up!
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My Dad was in the Royal Navy, and every other Friday he would have to take his sword to work with him. My brother thought that he was on pirate fighting duty on those days.
I used to believe, and so did many of my friends, that by being older you were automatically stronger and could drive a car faster. My dad being the eldest Dad of my mates, gave me quite a bit of kudos