When I was 7 had my 5 year old brother convinced that my mom's perfume and makeup would keep the bugs away. I put it on him before we went outside for about a week before someone told my mom.
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I used to believe that if the ice cream truck was playing music, it had sold out of ice cream.
When my sister and I were young we used to believe that the power station near our house was a playground. It honestly looked like a giant sized jungle gym to our young eyes. We were forever begging our mom to take us, luckily she never did.
When I was little, my cousin lived with us. We were six months apart in age. My mother told us that the ice cream truck was actually the music truck and would say "Isn't it sweet how they drive through the neighborhood to play music for you?" It wasn't until we started school that we learned what it really was.
When I was three, my mom told me that if I stepped on the blue paint in handicapped parking spots while it was raining, I'd slip and fall. But the yellow was okay. To this day (I'm 15), I still avoid the blue lines by habit!
My neighbor and I were thoroughly convinced that all old ladies were waiting to steal us. What an ailing elderly women would want with a couple of five year old kids I have no idea. But that didn't stop us from hiding from every one of them that crossed our path
When I was little I liked to put up the red flag on the side of a mailbox (I was easily amused), until one day my dad told me that if I put up the little red flag again the mailbox would explode. After that, every time one of my parents would put it up I would scream and run away.
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When I was a kid, my dad told me that if I didn't jump off of the escalator at the right moment, it would suck me in and kill me.
When I was little, I believed mannequins came to life at night. Watching Mannequin and visiting a Madame Tussauds museum were both horrifying experiences for me.
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I used to believe that employees in stores like Wal Mart actually lived there, sleeping in the camping section and kindly sharing all their stuff with shoppers.
I used to believe that the tall Marriott hotel by our shopping mall was actually Hollywood and each room was a different actors home. Me and my sister would point to the different windows and say " oh that's Gingers house from Gilligans Island!"
when i was younger i didn't know that there was a restaurant called subway (we lived in minnesota, nowhere near an actual subway), so when my aunt and older brother said they went there i got really mad because they didn't take me... i wanted to ride on an underground train!
My mom told me the man who lived on the corner was robbed blind while mowing the lawn. I felt horrible because who would rob a blind man, but then I was confused about how a blind man could mow the lawn.
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My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(
I lived in NYC, and I would walk around a lot with my mother. Unfortunately, I didn't understand the concept of, "blocks." I believed that she was referring to individual concrete blocks in the pavement. A five block distance meant that every five sidewalk tiles, I would look up and ask my mother, "Are we there yet?" Eventually I decided she was a liar, and stopped asking.
When I was a kid, I used to think there was some way to read the barcodes and figure out how much stuff at the store cost
When i was on holiday with my mum and her boyfriend and his son (same age as me). They convinced me that the lift only went up...i then spent the rest of the week walking down flights of stairs and wondering how we would get the suitcases down......IM 15 !
I thought a store called a "sundry" was a place where you could buy sun-dried items like raisins.
i used to believe that people who sold their houses and moved were switching with the people who bought them.
i couldn't rationalize the concept of an empty house.
When I was little, I was that kid, the one asking all the endless, annoying questions. One day, I was inclined to ask my mom what in the world was beneath the streets. I mean there’sdirt under grass and every kid knows if you dig long enough through that you'll hit China, but what happens if you dig up the roads? So I posed this question to my mother who replied that there was water beneath the pavement. She failed to elaborate on this point with a statement such as “There are big man-made metal pipes with water in them in order to provide citizens access to running water” so I was convinced that there were oceans under the roads. Oceans. And what do oceans have in them? Freaking SHARKS, that’s what. For half of my childhood, I was convinced that if there ever was a problem with the roads or an earthquake tore up the surface or something, it would open up to these Hellish oceans, and we would all drown in a deep sea of marine life and be eaten by sharks.