Stupid Things You Believed as a Kid

[Leeman4Gilmour]

I couldn't figure out why every town in rural Saskatchewan had a massive "Pool" yet no one talked about going swimming

[DoubleF]

Cooties

[foshizzle11]

Originally Posted by Nufy

If you swallowed an apple, orange, fruit seed etc...that a tree would grow in your stomach.

and the vines would come out of your ears if you swallowed a watermelon seed.

Or that if you swallowed your gum it would be in your stomach for 7 years. I seriously swallowed so much gum to see if that would be true, not so.

[WinnipegFan]

My parents loved telling us lies for some reason:

1. Until I was 14 I believed that American stores were only for American kids. Learned the truth on a hockey trip when I warned my buddies about going into a Best Buy. Humbling experience.

2. That our stew was beef, turned out we were eating the rabbit I thought was our new family pet.

3. That if I kissed a girl I would get AIDs and die. Obviously false but didn't know that until I punched a girl in the face in grade 3 for trying to kiss me on the playground. Suspended and lesson learned this was mostly due to my Mother's developing understanding of the language and a misunderstanding of the news.

[AcGold]

I thought I could fly until about 6 years old. Dreams were so vivid it was tough to tell reality from dreams... until I tried flying down the staircase with a cape and landed at the bottom rather violently. Kids are made of rubber as that would kill me now.

[WinnipegFan]

Originally Posted by Resurrection

When I was around 4 or 5 and first watching the Jets... I used to think that the coach pulled the goaltender at the end to motive the players. I didn't realize you got an extra attacker.

This is a fair conclusion. I watched the Jets growing up and the extra attacker barely made a difference so it is understandable that you would have missed him out there.

[polak]

Originally Posted by WinnipegFan

My parents loved telling us lies for some reason:

Polish grandparents are THE WORST for this. Here's a few they told me off the top of my head:

1. The drunks around town kidnap children and keep them in their basement so stay away from them.

2. If you play with fire you will pee your pants.

3. Going outside with your hair wet will make you sick (people still believe this)

4. Dreaming about teeth means someone in your life is going to die.

5. Probably the most common one that any eastern european person can relate to: YOU CANNOT have two windows open in separate rooms as it creates a cross breeze and that cross breeze is guaranteed to get you sick. This is another one that people actually believe there.

[verda13]

That almost all NHL players were people from the First Nations... "Wayne Gretzky, a native of Brantford, Ontario..."

[Rathji]

I used to think cartoons were just guys dressed up in costumes.

[puffnstuff]

That the guy next door who told me he was an engineer drove a train.

[Wood]

Originally Posted by verda13

That almost all NHL players were people from the First Nations... "Wayne Gretzky, a native of Brantford, Ontario..."

I thought this too d or probably way too long

I also thought that cups for baseball were actual cups, and that was a big reason I didn't want to play when I was a kid lol

[FiftyBelow]

I thought that when a referee blew the whistle for icing, it was because a guy stopped too hard on his skates and produced too much snow.

When a ref called out of bounds in basketball, I thought the player wasn't dribbling the ball high enough--"out of bounce"

[polak]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I used to think cartoons were just guys dressed up in costumes.

Oh I used to think that the people on TV could see everyone that was watching them too.

[JBR]

That the Oilers would always make the playoffs.

And that songs on the radio were really just someone broadcasting a type of variety show where bands and singers came onstage on after another.

[Muta]

I used to think that when people used the lavatory on the airplane, the waste wasn't captured and just fell to the ground below. I hated standing below airplanes as a kid when I looked up at the sky, as I didn't want to #### and piss dropped on my head.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

I was absolutely certain that there were wolves prowling my back yard. Fortunately, they were just raccoons.

[Swift]

As a kid growing up in Ireland, I believed that Jesus Christ was crucified in Bret Hart's hometown.

[MyFlamesFirst]

When I was five I was told I was going to be the ring bearer at my uncles wedding. My five year old brain heard "ring" and "bear". I was convinced I was going to dress up as a bear and throw rings at people. I was thoroughly disappointed when I learnt the truth.

I also believed that the fashion police were a real thing.

[CaptainCrunch]

Our dog went to live on a farm because he needed more space

if you had sex with a girl standing up in the shower she won't get pregnant.

That woman were put on the earth to fetch slippers, make sandwiches and giggle at a good slap on the bum.

[Sainters7]

I thought that massive speaker hanging in the middle of McMahon Stadium actually had the PA announcer sitting in it. For a long time as a kid I wanted to be a sports broadcaster, and the thought of having to scale my way to and from the dangerous, high suspended box every game was a serious road block to my dream.