I Used To Believe newsletter: February 2008
Hi,
It can be a jungle in your kitchen, with elephants stamping around in the heater, giraffes sneaking under the door and monkeys hatching in the fruit bowl.
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Have fun,
Mat.
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When I was really young, I thought saying 'good riddance' to people was a posh, grown-up way of saying goodbye. I never quite understood why everyone would tell me off for being rude when I said it.
Not Important
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When I was little (before school) I would insist that my birthday was Remember 2nd because I knew that was a word and I thought November was a word my family made up to trick me, since they would laugh every time they asked and corrected me.
Sara
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I used to think you couldn't die if you didn't have shoes on. Coincidentally, so did one of my friends.
Casey
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I believed that ham was mouse meat, because it was pink and my dad told me so.
Zo
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When I was little, my great-grandma told me that she had an invisible thinking-cap that only worked when she tugged on her ear, pressed her nose and made a weird noise. I asked her why I didn't have one, and she told me that mine was still growing on the back of my head. So for ages, every time I saw her, I'd ask her to check and see if my thinking-cap had gotten any bigger.
Onatel
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When I was little I had a fluorescent bulb in my bedroom. It would often take 1-2 seconds to fully turn on. This was grand because I thought that when people referred to the speed of light, they meant how long it took a light bulb to turn on starting when the switch was flipped. This made me very happy, because I could run to the center of my room before the light came on, and was therefore faster than the speed of light!
Joseph
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I have second degree burn scars on my arm from pulling a hot cup of tea down on myself when I was a toddler. I don't remember actually doing this and somehow I got it into my head that I was burned by lava. I had a whole scenario worked out in my head about my family and me jumping from island to island in a river of lava when some of it splashed up and burned me.
Sarah
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When I was around 7 yrs old, my father was vacuuming and found a straw sticking out of an electric outlet. He told us that whoever did it (me or my 2 younger sisters) must tell him immediately so he could rush them to the hospital before their hair fell out. I started crying profusely and my father assumed I had stuck the straw in the outlet. As he dragged me to my room, I yelled "I didn't do it" and he asked "then why are you crying?" I screamed at the top of my lungs "I DON'T WANT A BALD SISTER!!!!"
frank
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When I was at that short age of about 4 or 5 where you're always playing on the floor, I used to play near a step that had a gap under the door. My dad warned me one day to be careful because "drafts" came out from underneath. Only I heard it as "giraffes". I spent so many days after that watching for tiny giraffes to come out from under the door, but they never did...
Holly
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I used to believe that nose hairs were the other end of hairs on top of your head.
Walker
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When I was a kid, my father told me that his thinning hairline was caused by flying fish that used to leap out of the ocean and bite out a few strands as he caught the ferry to work every day. I was 23 when I realised that this couldn't possibly be true!
Simon
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I'm the only child in my family and I really wanted to have an elder brother to take care of me. So when I was very small, I asked my mum to give me an elder brother. She said, honey, you can't have an elder brother because you are our first child and if I have another baby it will be younger than you! After thinking deeply, I told my mum that she could eat me, have another baby then give birth to me again so I could be the younger one :P
Daisy
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When I went to Spain at the age of 7, I thought their currency was potatoes. It was pesetas.
Helen W
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I have a mole on my stomach and it wasn't until a few years ago that I realized it really wasn't the result of a cockroach bite from my baby years. I'm 17 years old.
Charita
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I believed my Daddy when he told me if I sat on a coconut long enough, it would hatch a baby monkey! I tried for months but with no success.
Kym
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My best friend was so pale I thought she could glow in the dark.
tattiebird
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I used to believe that when the school nurse checked us all for head lice, they were looking for "head-lights". I really wanted to stick around and see if they found the freak kid with a couple of built-in fog lamps stowed away.
Shane
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When I was around six I was told the joke: Where do hamsters go when they die? To Hamsterdam. I took this literally and thought that this was Heaven and everyone went there when they died. At my grandfather's funeral I told my grandma "Don't worry, Grandad is in Holland now."
Janine
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For some reason, I used to think that porcelain and teeth were the same material. I wondered how they ever got enough teeth together to make a toilet.
Anon
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When I was a kid, I asked my grandfather how the heat in our house worked. He showed me the heater in the kitchen and said something that I heard as "the heating elephants inside". Eventually I found out he was saying "elements" but for a long time I imagined little tiny elephants walking around inside the heater to make it warm. I spent about an hour that day sitting next to the heater trying to see the elephants.
Anon
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