When I was 3, my family went on a cross-country trip in an RV. The biggest thing we did on this trip was to visit every Sea World in the country (there being 4 or 5 at the time). My brother and I still thought there was only one Shamu, and that he swam through underground tunnels to get to each Sea World in time for his shows every day.
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I used to go grocery shopping with my Dad & ask for the most nutrition-free sugary no-chance-in-hell things, like Count Chocula cereal, etc.
Instead of saying 'no', he'd always say "Just wait, we might get it when it goes on sale."
I didn't really understand the idea of a 'sale' & just thought that the evil grocer-man was displaying these items to torture kids & never letting the 'good' cereals leave the shelves of his store.
I hated the grocery store owner's kids for years because of this misunderstanding.
Sorry kids!
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The neighbor kids told me that if you stand too close to a cement truck while the back is turning you would get sucked up the chute.
I used to believe that george morlan was an ice cream cone. So whenever we drove by the goerge morlan plumbing store i would ask to stop for ice cream but my mom could never figure out why.
Just down the road from our house, there used to be a depot where they made, sold and hired out scaffolding. This company had an advert on the side of the adjacent bridge which carried the railway line over the main road. To allow double decker buses to pass under this bridge, the road dips to a lower level. The advert on this bridge used to read “Sale+hire”, indicating that you could buy or hire scaffolding from this depot. I thought it was an instruction to motorists to “sail higher”, i.e. return to the normal height when you reach the other side of this bridge where the dip in the road level comes to an end.
I believed as a child that if you stepped in wet cement that you had to take your shoes and socks and go barefooted for a day.
I used to love watching National Geographic documentaries when I was little. And my dad couldn't swim. So one day, he made me watch Jaws, explaining that it was a documentary of what happens when humans get into deep water, being of course, the shark's environment.
I quickly became very wary and hesitant to swim in the sea... but then I discovered swimming pools. His solution was to tell me that all the pools in the world were interconnected by underground channels that lead out to sea, and Jaws could find me in any pool any where at any time if it wanted to.
Since then I don't swim alone in pool or sea, and I am paranoid about shark feeding times and anything that may attract a shark to me. But i still love to swim.
When I was little my gee-gee, in order to make sure we held onto the hand-rails, told us the story of a little boy who got his tennis shoe caught in the grid at the bottom of the escalator and was sucked under and ground up. For years my parents had to walk miles in malls and airports to find elevators because I would become hysterical near escalators..
My friend told her daughter that the icecream truck only played music when they were out of icecream. Another one told her kids that it was the music truck - driving around, just playing nice music for everyone..
when i was about 5-6..there was a building under construction near my school..i somehow felt it was a corrupt prison from hong kong,and that it was my mission to save people from inside
When I was little, I used to believe that if you got closer to a pool duct, it will suck you by the hair and you'll drown in the bottom of the swimming pool.
They told that one little girl died this way, so I was terrified of going to the bottom and find the dead girl without a bunch of it's hair... Brrrrrr!!!!
I have liked Broadway musicals since I was little and I I had heard of the broadway show "Damn Yankees" but didn't know what it was about. I went to see it with my family when I was about 11 years old. When I saw a baseball on the program, I asked "Is this about baseball?" I had always assumed it was about the civil war. Apperently I was a child who knew more about history than baseball.
i used to belive that every time i drank out the water fountain i would get the water the person before me drank. i don't know how i came up with this but i never told anyone about this strange conclusion!!!!!
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My big brother told me that if you peed in the pool, it would turn purple and chase you.
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When i was little i was told that when the ice-cream truck played music it meant that there was no ice-cream left.
when I was young I used to believe that there were sharks into the swimming pool and that they were going to eat me!!!!!So I wanted to swimm only with someone but not on my own
when i was 5 my mom my dad my sister and me went to disney world. They had theese invisable dogs. And my dad conviced me there were real dog s in there they just needed to be petted by a girl to be seen. So i went up to a little boy and asked him if i could pet his dog so he siad ya (but looked at me like i was stupid) and after i pet the dog he did not appear. And i started to cry.
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when i was a kid i used to belive that a 5 star hotel was one which has five floors.. and a 3 star the one which has 3
When I was a little girl living in Brazil, my cousin, who was around my age, would tell me that if you threw a coin in the sewer a doll would come up, like a vending machine or something. Go figure.
I grew up in Los Angeles. Once, when I was about 4, I saw an opening ceremony for a new freeway on the news. For a while after that, I believed that the the freeway was closed every night, and that mayor came out every morning to cut the ribbon and open it.