science

when i was 8 my sister and i got our first computer while i was out she popped out some of the buttons on the keyboard and swicthed them around so when i typed out my name it said ''hate'' ...she said god was talking to me

I used to believe that you could die from looking at a can of chemicals because I thought the chemicals would lunge at you and rot your eyes out.

I used to believe there was only one operator ("call the Operator"). After we cranked call The Operator I was afraid to dial 0, because I thought she would recognize my voice and make me hand the phone to the nearest adult.

Gravity used to frustrate me greatly and I tried to defy it reguarly. I remember thinking that if I just stacked and arranged them right, I could make a bridge I could walk on with my grandfather's countless National Geographic Magazines. I was also greatly dissapointed to find that Bonkers Candies, which in commercials caused any lucky person who ate them to shoot straight up into the sky, didn't work on me. I also remember at my birthday parties trying to tie enough balloons on my stuffed animals to make them float, but we never had enough balloons when I needed them.

I used to believe that a calculator has a mind of it's own and knows what you're going to do next and sits there waiting, bored, for you to input the figures. Then when you do the same kind of calculation again it cynically thinks "oh here we go again, la-di-da, b-o-r-i-n-g".

i once called my dad's office and the message said to press 0 before 5 if you needed to reach someone. after 5, it went to an telephone operator. i accidently pressed 0 one day after 5 and it went to the operator's number and i hung up really quickly because i thought i had connected to 911 and was going to reach a surgeon (operator).

When I was a boy, my dad took a test drive in a Volkswagen bus, just so that I could have the reward of a lunchpail in the shape of a VW bus. The prize included a small thermos bottle. I'd take the pail and thermos to school, the thermos filled with iced juice. I convinced myself that when the ice melted in the thermos, the resultant water would fill the thermos beyond its capacity and it would explode, sending VW bus shrapnel throughout the classroom, killing me and anyone else in its path. Each day, I was anxious for lunch to come so that I could drink the juice and defuse the ticking time bomb. After weeks of such dread, I confessed my concerns to my dad. He explained that water expands during freezing and contracts during thawing. To this day, I believe that his explanation was the inspiration for my career in science.

I knew perfectly well how the needle on a record player worked. When the needle touched the record, the singer would feel the needle. There must have been some kind of chart drawn on the singer's body, because depending on the exact point where he/she felt the needle, they would know what song to sing and start singing. Remote control human jukebox! I never did ask myself how a record continued to play after the singer had died....

I can't believe I still remember this.. but... My parents had this stereo with an 8-track. I would open the door to the 8-track and look for the little men playing the music.. strange, I could never find them.

I used to belief that when a picture was taken the film would somehow be on the floor and then later in the day the photographer would dig it up and develop the picture. (the camera was just the mechanism to capture and somehow send the picture to the floor)

When I was around 5 years old, I frequently heard my great-aunt say to my older sister, "Stop tying up the phone!" (as in talking on the phone too much)

That led me to believe that she was actually tying knots in the phone connection line.

When i was young, i moved from New york back to brisbane, and i gave a new friend my fone number. Little did i know that your number changed when you move, and i gave him our number from America.

I had a crush on the boy next door and one night I decided to call him. I figured if my number was 555-0221, his would either be 555-0220 or 555-0222. He wasn't at either number and I totally didn't get why.

when i was little i used to believe that electronics like comp. printers and radios had little people in side them working.I found out it wasnt true when i broke open the radio oops!:0

While doing the dishes one night my older brother told my younger one, who was about 7 or 8, how ships stayed afloat. In the bottom of all boats they had two big balloons. When they were full, they would float, when they were empty, they sank. My younger brother believed it until he was about 13, he read a picture book which was all about submarines and boats.

The very first time I had to do a report for school...I thought I could just dial "information" on the phone and someone would look things up for me.