I used to believe that if I urinated in our pool the water would turn red. My father made me believe it, telling me there was a special chemical in the pool-system which could detect urine. I plan to use this method on my own kids as well.
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When i was about 5 yrs old me and my mother went shopping to Marks and Spencer and i was crying and screaming ( as we did when we shopping with our mothers )because i couldnt get my own way, then my mother turned around and told me that there was this child man hiding in this door in the corner of the shop and if he saw a child screaming he would come out and take me away and lock me up in this room until it was time to go home, i never cried shopping with my mother ever again.
I used to believe that if you pee'd in a public pool that a red ring would appear around you and embarrass you.
My sister and I were told by our mum that when the ice cream man came into our street with his chimes going on the van, well, sorry, it means he's run out of ice cream :o(
This misleading information lasted a day.
I used to believe that when the ice-cream van man came around the neighbourhood, the jingle meant that he had run out of ice-cream. This is what my parents used to tell me. Is this bad parenting I wonder?
When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!
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when i was a child i used to think that a cross on top of the church in town was my dad watching me. It seemed so high up so i couldn't see what it really was.
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I used to believe that if you went on the bumper cars at the funfair you kept on driving until you went off the edge and died. I never went on them.
When I was younger my parents used to go to dinner dances quite often - For years I always pictured my parents jumping up on the table and dancing on their dinner!!
I used to believe at Christmas God rearranged all the streets to spell 'Merry Christmas'. When we were driving I'd look at the street lights and try and work out what part of which letter we were on
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When you buy something in a shop and you don't have enough money, the shopkeeper will give you change so you can have it..........if only!
When I was about 10/11 we went on a family trip to London. When there, we went into a museum where it had a miniature display of a room of a country mansion house of the 18th or so Century. I looked through the glass, and thinking myself rather clever, yelled out to my dad "Wow, look at those breasts!". Needless to say every male in the room took a sudden interest in the display as my dad promptly grabbed me away yelling out "Ooooh, you mean BUSTS, Edward, yes BUSTS!" as loudly as he could so everyone could hear.
I've never really lived that down.....
When i was out and about, this is up until recently aswell, I used to see written everywhere "post no bills". I used to think that this meant never to post electricity or gas bills. I was always angry at my mum when she posted the bills off. I could never understand why she hadnt seen the notices. I felt pretty stupid when i learnt that it actually means not to stick up posters.
When I was a kid there was a building site behind our house where they were building some new houses, and naturally us neighbourhood kids would use it for playing soldiers, and climbing on the scaffolding and throwing bricks and planks at each other. The usual stuff.
However, one day I was sat on one of the earthmovers, pretending to drive it when my father saw me and carted me into the house, and proceeded to tell me not to go onto the lorries and diggers, as you needed special leather trousers. If you sat on the seats without these special leather trousers, then if the digger started up, the vibrations would shake all your insides out of your bum.
Damn, I was scared, so I never went on the building site again. Mental scarring, or what!!
During the summer months a van would come round our housing estate selling icecreams. On entering the estate it would play music over the tannoy to announce its arrival. My mother explained to me that when the van played its music it ment that the van had run out of icecreams!
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a friend told me once that, when she was a kid, her mum told her the jingly-jangly music noise that came out of the back of ice-cream vans meant they had run out of all their ice-cream. nice.
Whenever my parents took me to the beach there was always this beachside road, parallel to the ocean, we had to cross.
I used to think this road ran all around the edge of the country without any interruption.
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I used to believe that all Street-Lamps were turned off at Midnight.
When I was a kid I used to always pee in the swimming pool and saw absolutely nothing wrong with this. I never understood why other people would actually get out of the pool and walk all the way to the toilet when it was so much easier to just pee in the pool. I thought I was much cleverer than them and was saving time.
When visiting my grandparents in Devon. I always used to look out for the 'Welcome to Salcombe' sign on the way into their town. My Grandad had told me he always put it out when he knew I was coming - and do you know, he never once forgot !