This topic always makes me laugh

When I was a kid I thought...

1. the world used to be in black and white.
2. if I prayed hard enough, I could turn into a hedgehog (like Sonic).

When I was a kid (I was 3 or so), I thought:

- I could stay up later if I wished my parents "Good Morning" when I was out of my room past my bedtime. That was guaranteed to convince them, right? ;)

dogs noses and black olive quite possibly could have been the same things.
hmmmm...

When I was a kid I thought... why do we need to go to work for money and why couldn't we just do our jobs and not get paid. I guess back then (5) I was a communist/socialist at heart. :p

why do we need to go to work for money and why couldn't we just do our jobs and not get paid.

You were close, just had it backwards, is all. What we need to be looking for is a way to not do our jobs and still get paid. Still working in it... :D

You were close, just had it backwards, is all. What we need to be looking for is a way to not do our jobs and still get paid. Still working in it... :D

yeah, it's all fun and games until you get caught not working! :runaway2:

dogs noses and black olive quite possibly could have been the same things.
hmmmm...

rofl, that paints a mental picture that is just hilarious!! :pound:

I thought "Hey Jude" by the Beatles was actually "Hey Dude"

I thought mustaches were hereditary... My dad had one and I thought I would have one too... I hated mustaches. :(

I didn't know about shaving I guess.

I thought mustaches were hereditary... My dad had one and I thought I would have one too... I hated mustaches. :(

I didn't know about shaving I guess.

ROFL! As if mustaches were some kind of cancer.:p

When I was 5, we lived under Communism, and I believed that there was a better place---There is. Right here in the Great USA!!! I was never disappointed.

Good girls controled rainbows and rode around on pretty horses?

http://mortar.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/11/rainbowbright.jpg

I was devastated when this turned out not to be true...

i thought that you could just write a bank check for whatever amount you wanted.

i thought that you could just write a bank check for whatever amount you wanted.

Actually, you can!! ...but they'll track you down eventually. :D

Actually, you can!! ...but they'll track you down eventually. :D

Yeah aint that the truth...

:bump: I liked this thread, and have a hunch it has some more life in it...

oh. ok. not sure this really counts, but when i was a small kid, my mom used to take me in the women's bathroom at the malls and stuff.

one day a lady didn't lock her stall and i opened the door. i saw her pulling a bloody tampon out and i thought it was a hot dog. i told all my friends at school about it and no one believed me that a woman would stick a hot dog up there. i swore up and down that i saw it with my own eyes. it wasn't until i got older that i realized what had really happened. hehe.

then again... maybe it really was a hot dog. :D

I swore that my Nintendo was in color on my B&W TV.

when I was a kid I thought that:
1.) when my dad talked about being a kid, I pictured him with his 35 year old head on a little kid's body (i didnt realize that he had aged to look like that, I thought growing up was just getting taller)
2.) if I accidently kissed a girl that she would have a baby (scared me to death)
3.) my grandmother had always been old
4.) going to school was dumb and a way for my parents to make me not be at home (aka baby sitter)

hahahaha good thread alex.

when i was a kid i thought 15 years old was the perfect age because you could do whatever you wanted, werent old, were strongest youll be in your lifetime, could ride all the rollarcoasters and could run fast during ding dong ditch... rofl... if only i still was so simple minded... =(

When I was a kid it seems like summer lasted forever. Now that I'm a older kid I live in Florida where summer lasts forever.

I didn't know how radio stations worked. I knew about bands and music groups, so I thought that when a song was played on the radio, the band was right there, playing. Always wondered how they fit all those groups in that little building. Later I found out that was only the transmitter building.

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When I was a kid I thought I was rich when I got $20 for Christmas. :)

When I was a kid (about 9 or 10) I thought that 25 cents a gallon for gas was way too much ... but I really loved to ride my mini-bike, so i cut grass for $1.00 a yard
Then later that year it jumped to 75 cents and i damn near started crying ... 1977 I believe it was

Good girls controled rainbows and rode around on pretty horses?

http://mortar.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/06/11/rainbowbright.jpg

I was devastated when this turned out not to be true...

I don't know about that Sunny - you provide some beautiful rainbows with your pictures and you ride a pretty blue horse :rolleyes:

All my school books in Kindergarten/First Grade talked about how great "America" was and didn't tell me that I LIVED in America, so when I was 4 & 5 I always thought "Wow. I wish *I* lived in America, where I could be free and see these giant Sequoia trees and stuff."

I thought that Hondas ruled and Kawasakis sucked and I would never own a "crotch rocket" Ninja.

Good thing I grew up!

could ride all the rollarcoasters and could run fast during ding dong ditch.

dude my neighbors hate me :)

when i was kid, 11 years old, i joined this local group of kids who would do fund raisers, plan events, and spend time with other kids, younger and older, who had muscular dystrophy. i joined because some family friends...they're like family, their kids, my friends, organized the whole thing. Youth Against Dystrophy. the year or so long experiences ended with a camp on the big island in which i was assigned a patient, a hawaiian boy, younger, but much larger than i, bound to a wheel chair...and i did everything w/him...fed, bathed, played, swam, laughed and cried...for 2 weeks. i never knew anyone with dystrophy till then.

when i was a kid i had no idea that my younger brother would be diagnosed with having muscular dystrophy in 2003. no one on either side of our family tree had been stricken, and it came out of nowhere.

when i was a kid, life prepared me to care for my brother when the time comes. :)

That is truly a cool story. Sorry bout your bro.

when I was a kid of 11. and 11 was different then than now.

I volunteered in a rest home for one day (one)

When I was that kid helping out and filling water pitchers in the rooms for the patients. I was the kid who thought the elongated skinney pitcher was for the patients to be able to drink easier without sitting up so much..
In one room Mr? was reaching out to me with his pitcher and asking for help.... I helped..

Later heard Nurse saying to another." some jackass filled up MR.?'s urnial with ice water....


Never went back

When I was really young, I went for a walk in the forest with my dad and my older brother. I must have been distracted by something, and when I looked up they were further up the trail, standing on a cliff 30 ft. above me. I was surprised that they were so far ahead of me and I screamed up at my father "How did you guys get up there?!"

He told me that they flew up there. I believed him and started crying because they could fly and I could not. :(

When I was like younger, I used to sit there and tense my whole body while screaming hoping I would turn Super Sayian (Dragon Ball Z)

i thought...that it's a big deal to forgive someone that hurt u.

When I was like younger, I used to sit there and tense my whole body while screaming hoping I would turn Super Sayian (Dragon Ball Z)

this made me laugh so hard. I did this too.

Great minds think alike Chris :)

When I was like younger, I used to sit there and tense my whole body while screaming hoping I would turn Super Sayian (Dragon Ball Z)

lmao, this one just made me burst out laughing at work

When I was kid, I used to wonder if everyone else around me was an alien/robot whose sole purpose was to watch or control my life. I really wasn't sure why all of these robots were around me.

When I was like younger, I used to sit there and tense my whole body while screaming hoping I would turn Super Sayian (Dragon Ball Z)

I did that! Also I would focus on objects like pens in class and try to make them move. Still working on that. :rolleyes: