neighbourhood: going shopping

When I was little I thought that black Friday was when all the poor black people went christmas shopping. This is why they had all great sales on that day. I didnt know that it wasnt true until today.

I used to believe that people give you money when they're actually giving you change. So once my mom said she was low on money while shopping, I asked her y dont you just ask the cashier guy over there?

I used to believe…

you know those shops that say 'open 7 days', well, when i was 3, i used to think that because 3 was such a BIGGG number, then 7 must be even bigger. i thought that all those shops were telling us how many more days they would be open 4, and were having closeing down sales. i got pretty worried because i thought Sydney was gonna become a ghost town because business was leaving it.

Our local store used to have a huge plastic icecream above the door to advertise a particular brand and until I was about 12, I thought it was Donald Duck with his head stuck in a giant cone with just his butt sticking out.

When I was younger me and my mother used to go shopping a lot. She tells me that I used to talk to the manequins believing that even though they didn't move that they were still looking at me. I used to have full blown conversations with them.

When i was younger i thought that when you go to the grocery store, you couldn't go down an isle that somebody was already in. I thought this because whenever my mom and i went shopping, we would start walking down an isle and then we would turn around right away and go to the next isle. (we turned around because the item she wanted wasn't down that isle) I realized that you could go down an isle that somebody was in when i was about 9 or 10.

I use to buy a lot of used cd's at a store where they had a large selection of cd's with the initials "VS" on them. I thought that "VS" was a person who had sold back his old cd's. I can remember thinking that i would like to meet the guy who is selling back hundreds of cd's. As it turned out, "VS" stood for "very scratched". Doh!

When I was little I used to see the commercials for furniture where it said so much to pay a month to pay a piece of furniture off over a few months instead of one large lump sum... I thought you had to pay your whole life as long as you owned the piece of furniture, every month.

i used to think that if you don't step off the escalator when toy get to the top that you would get sucked down underground and your clothes would be left behind and that for the rest of your life you would live in an underground nudist colony!

When I was a kid and you used to see posters in empty shop windows saying "Bill Posters will be Prosecuted" I thought Bill Poster was a person and must of been really naughty to warrant so many notices put up about him!!

I used to believe the abbreviation lb. stood for a unit of measurement called an "ilible". So, I'd be at the grocery store with my mom thinking we were getting 2 "ilibles" of something.

When my sister and I were little, our dad told us that the men working at this one store we went to, liked little girls and would steal us and take us away to their country to be their brides. We got so scared that one day when we went to the bathroom there, we would not come out until our dad came in to get us and carry us out of the store.

My sister led me to believe that if you entered the store "Lechmere", a bunch of leaches would attack you and you would merely get away

I used to think the store WHSmiths (pronounced double u H Smiths) was called Wuh-smiths. I always wondered where my parents meant when they were talking about going to "double u H Smiths".

Once, I was in the car, and my brother and my Dad were talking. We went past a shoprite, and my brother asked "Why not?". For a little bit, I thought Shoprite was called "Why not?".

Hate to disagree with Anon, but lbs stood for libs or libbies. I was never too sure which. I knew there were pounds, but you didn't use those in stores. Just when you weighed people.