I used to believe the abbreviation lb. stood for a unit of measurement called an "ilible". So, I'd be at the grocery store with my mom thinking we were getting 2 "ilibles" of something.
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I used to believe that when you went into an elevator in a department store, that hundreds of short men (oompa-loompa-like) would rush out and change everything around in the brief few seconds before the elevator doors would open again. I thought the people browsing on the floor were plants -- actors that were there to make you feel like the whole scene was real.
Once I went to to the circus to see a gigantic (about 4 metres) mechanical King Kong it really scared me, (as I have watched the movie before) so up until I was 7, I used to believe that the exhibition antiaerial guns outside the ministry of defense were to shot down King Kong, in case he ever cut loose from the circus.
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When I was a kid, I was afraid of escalators in department stores. I thought that once I reached the top or bottom I would get sucked in.
Whne I was young, my father used to carpool to work. One day he came home and said person x was retiring and that he would need to join a new carpool. Thinking this was a car with a large swimming pool in the back; I asked him if he would have to buy a new swim-suit.
my mom used to tell me the ice cream truck was just a truck that drove
around and played music for all of the little boys and girls in the neighborhood.
i did not know there was ice cream on the truck.
When I used to see buildings with the To Let sign outside I thought it meant Toilet and the "i" had fallen off =o)
My mum told me that the programmes being shown on the tellies in Rumbelows window were always on earlier than the ones at home as I was upset at missing playschool. I fell for it.
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The father of a friend of mine told him that if an Ice Cream van was playing music it meant they'd run out of ice cream.
I was on a tour of the caverns and was told that if I touched anything the entire place would collapse. I admired the self-control of all the tour guides. Later, I think I touched a wall when no one was looking.
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My mother explained that ice-cream vans played music so that everyone would know that they had run out of ice-cream.
I used to believe I made street lights blink out when I went by them because it happened so frequently. It came up in a car-ride one time with my Dad as we drove by one that went out, he looked at me and said "I did that." I couldn't believe it, I had inherited the supernatural vibes from my Dad! It still happens to us this day. <insert soundtrack from Encounters of the Third Kind here>
When I was about 4, a woman used to ride past our window on a moped on her way to work every morning in an anorak and crash helmet. For some unexplicable reason, I thought she was Princess Anne riding her horse. Wierder still, I thought she was called "Princess Hand".
True story.
My mum used to tell me that when the Ice Cream van came round, it was for "children whos mummys couldn't afford a freezer", so that I didn't get her to buy me anything.
When I was wee, I misheard my mother when she ordered me an ice-cream.
For years, I was to be found asking for 'a nice cream'.
I still catch myself doing it to this day! And I'm 26 now...
I believed that you could get sucked into the gap at the end of the escalator, the moving stairs disappear into the floor. I was terrified of going on the escalator and would walk backwards on it until I worked up the guts to take a running jump over it. These days I sometimes let my feet slide off the escalator onto the ground just to prove to myself that I can't fit through the gap even if I try.
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That waterslides were filled to the top with water, so that if you got stuck or didn't go down fast enough, you'd drown. (And I still have those damn "stuck in a waterslide" nightmares)
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I used to think that ambulances constantly cruised around neighborhoods and when you needed one, you just ran outside and flagged one down.
When I was little I used to see *angels in the sky* going about their business or just acting out plays. As it turned it, they were just the screens of drive-in movie theatres which were so pronounced against the evening sky. How comforting it was to see my *angels out.*
there is a venue near my parents' home called "private dancer/adult bookstore." i always wanted to go there when i was little because it combined the two things i loved so much: dancing and books. i was taking tap lessons at the time, and thought one day i'd be able to perform there, my first step on my way to broadway. also, i was jealous of the adults who went to the "adult bookstore." i thought that meant they were books for people who were advanced readers. i couldn't wait until i was well read enough to go there. little did i know they were all picture books.