Mad things you thought as a small kid

[eastsidebagel]

I started reading at a very early age and was pretty bright. Unfortunately I have not progressed much since then.

Just ommit the last part of your sentence and you are fine.

 

[Gooblah]

Well, I made my dad think I could read at the age of three after memorizing my favorite bedtime story (PJ Funnybunny), and reading it aloud; he was jubilant until my sister noticed I was holding the book upside down.

There were lots of things, I guess. Such as...
...cars were powered by water
...balloons went up and up and up, then came down and down and down so that balloon sellers had the same colors all the time

When I remember more I'll post 'em here. I was a pretty down-to-earth kid, though. Maybe played with girls too much in kindergarten and first grade (though that was alleviated by playing Batman/Robin/Batman Beyond during recess, and punching schoolyard bullies in the nose).

 

[Aegis]

Just ommit the last part of your sentence and you are fine.

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

 

[Annex]

I would confuse the words "dying" and "diving", so when my parents said someone died, I would imagine him or her diving into a pool.

 

[Luckymoose]

I believed in God.

 

[Trafalgar]

I thought all Americans were tall, good looking and rich.

 

[cubsfan6506]

ANd I thought all canadians were short, stupid, and drunk.

I thought i could see much farther then I actually could. Like I would look across a field and think it was like 50 miles when it was really like 2500 feet.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I thought Big Bird was an actual species of bird and was pretty pissed off one day at the zoo. I also thought I could speak any foreign language just by imitating it. I also thought bathing was terribly overrated. I also thought airplanes were really small.

 

[Trafalgar]

ANd I thought all canadians were short, stupid, and drunk.

As a child growing up in England, my exposure to Americans was through TV and Movies. The movie stars were good looking and tall, and America, especially California, seemed full of rich, tanned people.

As a child The USA impressed me. That's all I meant.

 

[shakeythedrunk]

I thought cartoons were just special camera work.
When I saw Wile E. Coyote fall off a cliff I thought they got people that wanted to commit suicide to dress up in a coyote suit and act it out on camera.

 

[Aegis]

I would confuse the words "dying" and "diving", so when my parents said someone died, I would imagine him or her diving into a pool.

I used to confuse "Restaurant" with "Astronaut."

 

[jessiecat]

When I was 4 I spent the 4th of July at my Aunt's house in Cleveland Ohio. It was my birthday and I was so happy they put on this great display just for me. When I was 5 it didn't happen again and I've hated fireworks for the rest of my life. BTW I'm Canadian.

 

[eastsidebagel]

I thought every pet could talk and understand the human language, just not showing it.

 

[Kennigit]

I always thought of fish as little sea kittens

 

[Tee Kay]

I thought I could last more than 5 seconds in a fist fight.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I used to have fantastic arguments with my parents about whether the word "route' was pronounced "root" or "rowt." I was probably four.

I had this silly toy speedometer attached to my bike that gave "readings" on my speed. It looked so real, cause it had a sensor thing on the wheel and stuff, so I thought I was going like 50 mph on my bike when I peddled as fast as I could down the street, because the speedometer said so.

I thought trees were made out of particle board wrapped in layers, and that's why they had rings!

I thought it was my God-given duty to extinguish every ant, cockroach, spider, and cicada on the face of the earth, and I pursued this policy right up to high school. Sometimes i would "take mercy" on a cicada, put him on my shoulder, and call him my buddy for the day, then release him at twilight.

I thought that the Nazis were stormtroopers from Star Wars (the result of watching two movies back to back late at night) and that they were also child kidnappers I saw on the news, and I constantly expected them to come leaping through my bay window like some kind of mad frog or something. I was probably five or six when I thought this.

Until high school I thought The Arabian Nights was actually The Arabian Knights; this was mostly due to the theme song to the TV show Aladdin.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

Until high school I thought The Arabian Nights was actually The Arabian Knights

I thought that for a long time too.

 

[Leonel]

Minutes were hours and hours were minutes.

Every fictional evil character in every movie was real and out to get me.

There wasn't a God *snicker snicker*

 

[bigdog5994]

i believed that there was a guy in the traffic light

 

[Shekwan]

As a child growing up in England, my exposure to Americans was through TV and Movies. The movie stars were good looking and tall, and America, especially California, seemed full of rich, tanned people.

As a child The USA impressed me. That's all I meant.

There are some stereotypes about americans that generally are true though. From my own experience they do actually tend to have excellent teeth. I mean abnormally white and straight teeth. Thats probably why they think British people have horrible teeth. I just think that American society seems a lot more unforgiving on dental wellbeing. Which isn't a bad thing either.

I don't really thin I can add to this thread. I'm certain I had madly incorrect thoughts as a kid but I just can't recall any right now...