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I used to think that robbers had keys to every house and that's how they got in to take your stuff
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I have a cousin who has mental problems because of natural causes. But when I was a kid I used to think one of his neighbors threw a rock at his head which damaged his brain. I would frown at them every time I saw them.
my mum always told me that the ice cream mans music meant that he had run out of ice cream..... how mean is that!
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I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.
When i was about 8, i remember seeing a sign that said "Brat Roast this weekend" at a church. I thought they'd be roasting disobedient children. It didn't occur to me that "brat" was short for Bratwurst.
I remember being in the car when it was beginning to get dark and seeing the street lights turn on one by one. I thought that there was a massive room full of thousands of computers, one for each lamp and there was a man who had to switch them on individually. When I was about 7, we watched a 'Come Outside' video at school which explained that therre are sensors which can tell if iut is dark and switch them on. I couldn't wait to get out of school that day to tell my mum the 'truth'!
when i was about 3 i went shopping for the first time in a supermarket and the shiny floor tiles really freaked me out i thought i was falling down through them and freaked
When i around 5 or 6 and went to the supermarkets with my parents, they used to leave it til the store was shutting before they would finish their shopping. I remember the staff pulling down the roller doors and i used to scream and cry, thinking that we'd be locked inside for the night. I would pull in my mothers arm and try to drag her out the door before the mean staff locked us in!
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My Mum told me that when the icecream man played his music it meant that he had run out of icecream!
when i was young. i always believed that the "no" was burnt out on the 'no vacancy' signs on hotels. i had always kept it a secret that i knew this. till one day on a trip in canmore i finally got tired of all these hotels not caring about there light system so i asked my dad "why are all the 'no's burnt out on the 'no vacancy' signs?" my mom and dad turned around in there seats and began to laugh histerically. once they calmed down they explained to me what vacancy met. it all came together.
when my babysitter would pick me up from school and drop me off i always thought she would take me to a lake and drop me in...i never liked that woman
The mother of a friend of mine always warned us to use the restroom before swimming, because (according to her), the water would turn green around us. I believed it for the longest time.
I used to believe that when you paid tax on a purchase, you paid extra money because you didn't have any tacks to pay, and that the cashier took the money and bought the tacks themselves so they wouldn't get in trouble with the IRS.
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When I was maybe 5 I refused to go to the flea market because I thought it was full of fleas that would jump on you. lolll
I used to think that if you walked underneath a certain bridge near my house, and you talked whilst you were doing it, you'd get bad luck for 7 years. 20 if you walked underneath it when a train went past. I still get worried when I'm talking whilst walking under it now! *goes slightly red*
My dad used to tell us that when the ice cream man music goes off, it means he ran out of ice cream. And when me and my brother moved to where aload of kids where and saw them all runnign up to the ice cream man we were all " ooh haha there so dumb hes run out" my dad will never shut up about that lol!
When me and my mum used to cross at the traffic lights she'd always say 'wait for the green man to come!.'
I always looked up at the sky and thought that some crazy real life green man would come flying down like superman. it was disappointing to eventually find out it was only a light :/
I believed that if the ice-cream van was playing a tune, it was because they had run out of ice-cream. My mum told me this!!
I used to believe that when my mum took us on holiday we were just in the same country and town except they'd changed it...
when i was younger my mum used to tell me and my brothers and sisters about a man who lived over the road from us called the sock-sniffer and she used to say when you walked past him he would steal your socks and sew them onto his jacket.......and i believed her.........o-m-g!!