Similarly, that those x-ray glasses really could be used to see through clothes
I thought weekends were invented when I started school.
Babies come out through the belly button
Trying to work out whether topologically this is kind of true.
Believed there was a god. Realised this was bs when I was about 8
I thought that mum and dad were their actual names
I was generally confused about the difference between boys and girls and thought I was a boy at one point
When Thatcher stepped down someone on the telly described her as being āstabbed in the backā and I thought they meant literally
I used to think when someone āsplit their head openā their head literally split in half down the middle, like an easter egg
that daddy was coming back
No, thatās Ronnie Pickeringās job
Who?
Spent a good few years terrified of escalators after my mum told me that youād get dragged under them if you didnāt pick your feet up at the end. Would drag my feet a bit as a child which she must have tired of after a while. Used to do enormous leaps off them just to make sure I cleared the nashing teeth at the end, to the bemusement of onlookers Iām sure.
I used to do the exact same thing, after being told the same thing. Still make sure to step over them quite broadly to be fair, just canāt seem to shake the habit/fear.
that everyone lived happily ever after
Seems disproportionate in hindsight. Would go to bed thinking about getting chewed up in the mechanism!
We had 2 rabbits called Mr and Mrs Malone, Iād have been about 4 or 5. Mr Malone died but my dad told me that Mrs Malone ate him and that was normal for rabbits to do.
Thatāsā¦ horrifying!
wait what itās not
Itās not! Honestly