When I was young, I used to believe... - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Barnes · 12-20-2006, 02:09 PM

that everytime you turned a light on, it costs 10 cents.

drinking and driving meant drinking anything while driving.

What are some of the strange things you believed when you were young? Things that your parents told you or just somehow made up in your head.

Resolute 14 · 12-20-2006, 02:14 PM

I used to believe that you only eat french fries every once in a while.

Boy did we have crazy beliefs back then.

Cowperson · 12-20-2006, 02:14 PM

. . . . . I believed smoking sucked even though my mother once tried to get me started because "you'll have to learn someday anyway."

She was wrong. I was right.

Ah . . . growing up in small town Alberta!!!

They were right about one thing though . . . . sticking a screwdriver into a light socket will give you a bad shock.

Cowperson

Crazy Flamer · 12-20-2006, 02:15 PM

I used to believe that if I went outside with wet hair during winter it would freeze, break off like an icicle and never grow back!

Looger · 12-20-2006, 02:15 PM

i've heard other people say this to me before so i know it's not TOO wierd...

when i was young i used to believe that sometime in the 1960s or early 1970s the whole world switched from black-and-white to colour.

when i was young i used to believe that all television was live and that people did commercials REALLY PRECISE.

that's all i can remember for now, but i have no doubt that there's many things i believed that i would now consider ridiculous.

FunkMasterFlame · 12-20-2006, 02:16 PM

For some reason when I was a kid, I got it into my head that when a man raped another man, he raped him in his pee-hole, and not in the backdoor.

I was rather scared of gay men for a looong time.

Jayems · 12-20-2006, 02:18 PM

I always thought girls pee'd their pants, and thats why they needed maxi-pads.

ken0042 · 12-20-2006, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Looger

when i was young i used to believe that sometime in the 1960s or early 1970s the whole world switched from black-and-white to colour.

I remember being 5 years old and asking my grandmother when it was that the world switched from B&W to colour.

I also think that was the subject of a Calvin and Hobbes comic too.

Bring_Back_Shantz · 12-20-2006, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FunkMasterFlame

For some reason when I was a kid, I got it into my head that when a man raped another man, he raped him in his pee-hole, and not in the backdoor.

I'm not entirely sure I want to know why you spent so much time thinking about the particulars of one man raping another when you were a kid.

GoinAllTheWay · 12-20-2006, 02:24 PM

The term "firearm" used to blow my mind. I heard a report once that a man was killed but the firearm was never found, figured the guy had one arm on fire.

I also used to think that the laughs your heard on soundtracks during TV shows was acutaly people in front of their tv's laughing at what they saw. I used to laugh really loud cause I wanted people to hear me too.

Prototype · 12-20-2006, 02:24 PM

Dragonflies could kill you by stinging you... That one thanks to my brother.

Time was the equivilant to how long it took to say it. Like "Two Minutes" was about the 3 seconds it took to say "Two Minutes"

Hack&Lube · 12-20-2006, 02:28 PM

I had no concept of reality when I was young. I still don't.

Frank the Tank · 12-20-2006, 02:32 PM

I used to think that all the music on the radio was live, and the station had all these bands lined up in the hallway, just dying to play that one song.

And chocolate milk came from brown cows of course. Until I was 14. Thanks Grandpa.

Engine09 · 12-20-2006, 02:34 PM

Hahaha, I have one.

I used to think that when celebrities gave someone an autograph they were actually sketching a picture of themself, not just a signature.

I remember thinking that must be really tough.

Bill Bumface · 12-20-2006, 02:38 PM

I thought that when someone was fired from a job, they were taken out and shot with a gun.

I also believed there were kids living in a cave under the park. You could get to their cave through the utility access in said park.

Prototype · 12-20-2006, 02:39 PM

...Alf wasn't a puppet.

MrMastodonFarm · 12-20-2006, 02:43 PM

That cars only burned gas when the wheels were in motion.

That if I dangle my feet over the bed someone would get them. That one still creeps me out.

eazyduzzit · 12-20-2006, 02:46 PM

I use to think the old'n'days where actually back and white.

Flames_18_22_12 · 12-20-2006, 02:46 PM

When the weather man said that there were "flurries" outside I tried to convince my mom to take me out so I could get an autograph.

Cowperson · 12-20-2006, 02:49 PM

I used to think the Flyers had red jersey's . . . . . until I learned to my amazement my grandfather's new-fangled colour tv had mal-adjusted colours.

Cowperson