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I used to believe…

THE SAND IS DANGEROUS :

When I was five years.I went to the beach, and I remember that I didn't want to go on the sand because I believed that the sand would eat me when I was walking on it because when you walk on the sand your feet disapear under it. So for walk in I placed my beach towel on the sand and walk on it, and repeat the operation to move. I admit, that it was very ridiculous and slow but it's the only solution that I found when I was child. Now I laught about that

I used to believe…

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)

I used to believe…

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!

I used to believe…

When i was younger i always thought that the 'Model Yacht Pond' was called the 'muddly up pond', it was only when i was 17 that someone told me they thought the same thing and i realised. Everyone says it so quickly that they think it is the same.

I used to believe…

When we were little, my mother told my sister and I that every time we saw the fluorescent orange or pink surveyor's flags tied to stakes in the woods, that it meant the Girl Scouts had been there. If the flags were green or blue, it meant the Boy Scouts (of course!) had been there. On a Sunday drive when I was about 20, I saw some orange flags in a wooded area off the road. I said to my mom, "Look! The Girl Scouts were here!" She laughed so hard she almost crashed the car. She had forgotten she told us and was surprised that we had remembered it - and still thought that's what they were.

I used to believe…

My dad told me this. In motels there are these doors that lead to the next room. He told me a dungeon was in them.

I used to think the 10 gallon hat that is the sign for Arby's Restraunt was a big fish, and I couldn't figure out why they sold roast beef sandwiches and not fish sandwiches.

I used to believe…

When I was 7 my parents took me to Disney World and I came out of the It's a Small World ride singing Hit the Plumber on the Head. They really needed better speakers

I used to believe…

Whem I was about 4-5 and we went to washington D.C. My parents were talking
about there being no restrooms a the Washington momorilal. I thought that they were talking about the capital. so when we went to the capital, i had to go. so i went to the top of the stairs, uzipped, and let her rip!

I used to believe…

when i was about 4 or 5, i went with my mom to the doctors so that she could get a shot. she let me come into the room with her and i watched as the nurse began to give her the shot. i was horrified to see the needle go into her, so got on all fours and began barking and growling, thinking that i looked like a dog and that i would scare the nurse away. she just looked at me strangly

I used to believe…

When my brother and I were small, my family often took car trips along a highway that went past a prison surrounded by three curving chain link fences with barbed wire at the top. My brother was kind of a problem child, so when he asked what the prison was, my parents told him it was the "bad boy school" and that he'd have to go there someday if he didn't learn to behave. After thinking seriously about this for a few minutes, my brother declared that if they sent him there, he'd just make sure he was really big when he grew up so he could walk over the fences and escape.

I used to believe…

Iwas 9 years old.Mother and i where going to a theathre about Edith Piafs life. A famous norwegian actor and songstress Britt Langlie was the main attraction. I was reading the newspaper finding a day. I said to my mother: We will definitlly not go on tuesday and thirsday, then an Inga Frams is playing." My mother started lauhging and tould me that Inga Frams was a shortterm for "No Show" in norwegian dialect. I was very ebbarrasd. After this stupid saying everybody asked me about Inga Frams and how she was doing...

I used to believe…

When I was little and went to the Barber Shop, I thought the metal column the barber chair sat on that went 'up' and 'down' was a single solid steel shaft that extended way down into the Barber Shop basement. I had no concept of a 'hydraulic' lift that could raise the chair way up from floor level using 'telescoping' segments.

I used to believe…

Before my Grandfather died he always told my sister and I that the vacuum tubes at banks were operated by tiny men inside the machines with tiny Hoovers.

I used to believe…

my brother used to belive that the wrapped-up the bales of hay (in white plastic)on farms were giant marshmellows!

I used to believe…

When I was really little, like 4 or 5, I was very intimidated by kids older than me. I always thuoght of myself as a "little kid". I would go to buger king and be really hungry, but I would never order the "big kids meal" because i was konvinced that i wasn't a big kid.