Share Your Childhood Misconceptions

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:21am

- I thought the songs on the radio were performed live at the station

- I thought people actually got hurt while making a movie and then they sent them to the hospital after filming

- On a similar note, I thought they would wait for a child actor to grow up so that they could film the adult scenes for a movie

- I thought every time it snowed it was Christmas

- I thought the Golden Gate Bridge was really made of gold

[SNAFU]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 12:23pm

I remember my Dad saying he was going to go down into the basement to get the snake to unclog the bathroom sink.... as long as we lived in that house, I NEVER went down in that basement again!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 12:32pm

That If I worked hard, was honest and a good person, that I would succeed in life.

It's been proven that all I've gotten was screwed over, lied to and taken advantage of.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 12:35pm

There was no difference between George Bush and Michael Dukakis except that I liked Michael Dukakis and my dad liked George Bush.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:30pm

I was afraid that the pink elephants from Dumbo and the Grinch were real and they were going come into my room at night to get me.

I didn't know what New Year's Eve in Times Square was until kindergarten. My teacher told us about the ball dropping. I thought it was really large in some remote location and it fell off a statue and rolled around the world. I was afraid it would come to my area and kill us.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:38pm

When I saw "don't drink and drive" commercials, I thought you weren't supposed to drink anything -- even soda -- while riding in a car, or else you'd die.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:39pm

I thought when you grew up you got to pick a Disney character you wanted to be.

I thought when you went on an airplane the passengers would pass the sun around. I would always ask, "When is it my turn to hold the sun?!"

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:50pm

I had no idea that Bewitched had been recorded thirty years previously. DEVASTATED to discover Elizabeth Montgomery had passed away.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 2:55pm

I was absolutely convinced that my grandparents were going to take me to Hawaii so I could find Mr. Snuffleupagus and his family.

My father also convinced me that the tower up by the Cloisters was filled with witches and kangaroos. I still kinda believe this one.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:39pm

Based on what the older boys told me, I thought "prostitute" or "whore" meant a desperate drug addict who woud have sex for $20.

Then I saw the movie "Butterfield 8" with Liz Taylor on TV. The idea that a man would pay $300 for sex (a huge amount in the late 1960's) was unbelievable to my pre-pubescent mind.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:51pm

I thought the D in the "Disney" logo was a backwards G.

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 3:57pm

I grew up with mostly women in my family. So, when I was a child, I thought I would eventually turn into a woman.

Updated On: 8/14/12 at 03:57 PM

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:01pm

Jon! I, too, was scarred by that $300 figure in Butterfield 8!!

I also worried for the gorillas who were repeatedly talked about as fighting the Viet Nam war.

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:23pm

Tiki's were evil and had spells on them, and you needed to go into a cave and find Vincent Price to clear the spell away.

Thanks Brady Bunch


I also thought the song 'She Bop' by Cyndi Lauper was about dancing- not masturbation. Man, I sang that song aloud ALL the time...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:26pm

I thought any woman with grey hair was my grandmother.

I thought the local amusement park, Astroworld, was like another country or something. So when it was closing time, I didn't think it was a place that actually opened or closed, but that it was just a ploy by my parents to leave because they were tired, so I'd throw a FIT.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:33pm

OH!!!

Because of FOUL PLAY, I thought all albinos were murderers.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 4:43pm

Girls don't fart.

My mother was a virgin.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:01pm

Girls do fart but a real lady will hold it in.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:04pm

I thought any woman with gray hair would go around shouting "Where's the beef!"

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:07pm

"Girls do fart but a real lady will hold it in."

Until they get home at night. Then they blow themselves around the living room. I had a friend get caught up in her drapes.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:07pm

When a real lady walks into her house, she flies around the room like a deflating balloon.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 5:08pm

Exactly!

[nmartin]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 6:21pm

I thought the Best Supporting Actor/Actress nominees financially supported someone else in the cast.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 6:54pm

I thought all cats were girls and dogs were boys. The same went for tigers (girls) and lions (boys) and cars (girls) and trucks (boys).

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 8/14/12 at 7:11pm

When I saw "don't drink and drive" commercials, I thought you weren't supposed to drink anything -- even soda -- while riding in a car, or else you'd die.

I thought the same exact thing! I once refused to get into the car with my mother because she was drinking a Diet Coke. I couldn't believe it when she told me it was only alcohol that was off-limits on the road.

I also used to think that newscasters could see me through the TV screen, but only newscasters.