What did you seriously believe as a kid that seems hilarious now?
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ANSWERS: 29
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Black people turned white when they grew up.
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that the streets of new york were paved with gold.
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that "alldays" were for women who couldn't hold on to their water.
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God was literally my father. I guess I miss interpreted that somewhere in church...
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Not sure if I ever believed this, but youknow those signs that show the back of a car with squiggles under it meaning slippery when wet? My dad used to say that this is where buses go to get a flat tire. Whenever I saw that sign, and a bus, I got a touch nervous. Well, maybe I did believe that.
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I seriously believed in Santa until 4th grade. I wanted it to be ture so badly. Then when the teacher said raise your hand if you believe in Santa, and I did, the kids ridiculed me something terrible. I loved all the stories, Easter Rabbit, etc. Such a romantisist.
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I believe that when passing by a cementary never look in and stare or if you do then you will die soon.
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That girls grow up to be men and boys grow up to be women. Totally weird.
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Syntax was a tax imposed by the church.
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when my older brother would always tell me I was adopted!!! Funny now cuz I am spiting image of my mother!!
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that double decker buses had two drivers.
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My aunts and uncles lived in Philadelphia, PA. I lived in Puerto Rico. They said that in the United States (Estados Unidos) money fell from the sky (el dinero cae del cielo). I wondered why didn't just shoveled it and took it home with them.
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That my "My Kid Sister" doll was like Chucky and was going to kill me...I burried it and my aunt dug it up, cleaned it and put it on my bed. *cries* She just told me recently that she had done that.
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The boogie man was going to get me.
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That cutting my hair would hurt! LOL
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When I started secondary school, I had French lessons for the first time. My dad told me that the French for 'spoon' was 'spern' (with a really bad Inspector Clouseau accent). I only got 99% in my French oral GCSE exam.
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Ink poisoning. "Don't suck on that pen, mister. You'll die from ink poisoning!" I don't think anyone has...
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That if I didn't quit chewing on my finger nails bugs would grow in my tummy!
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Until I was about 6 years old I thought 'boy parts' would look like a tootsie roll.
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My imagination used to invent these green specs of light that I would see floating around my room at night. I used to think they were trying to attack me somehow. I was terrified of going to bed. That's kinda funny, I guess. Also, I thought that tractors drove backwards......
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before I knew what circumcision was, when I saw my friend's weiner in the restroom I thought he was an alien!
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Iwas a naughty child and got hurt often so everytime I fell or bumped the table I would cry and then my mom or dad would come and hit whatever hurt and I believed that it also felt my pain and I would stop crying.
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i was always scared when it was time to get out of the bath, mom would pull the plug in the tub and i thought the drian would suck me down
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That my grandfather, who is now 68, fought in the American Civil War. Believe me, this is when I was very young.
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We once drove past a huge oil field with all those pumpers going up and down. I asked what they were and my dad said that if they didn't go up and down that cars couldn't drive on the roads. SO for a long time I thought that those things HAD to go up and down or the cars really wouldn't be able to move along the roads, like they wee attached or something, ran the cables, made the magnets work, I don't know. But it was so silly:-)
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I couldn't flush the toilet at night because I thought that it would wake up the toilet monster and it would attack me!! Yeah, I know...
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well, for a while my brother had me going that i was adopted.
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My cousin told me there was a vampire in the closet so whenever it was cracked open, I thought it was so he could wait for me to fall asleep! Mean older boys!
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That pigions really were flying rats. I used to feel really sorry for the rats that hadn't grown their wings yet!
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