Silly misconceptions you had as a kid...

[uranium_death]

That the world was a magical place where everybody plays nice

[fordv8!]

Originally Posted by samsy351

I used to think that babies came out of girls bums or you could just buy them from the shop

me too (the bum thing) and i remember sitting in the back of the old XE and look at the tress etc and think if you went off the road you would just smash them and nothing happen to car and all would be right oh how wrong was i

[Envi XR8]

some of mine.
1. That waves and surf were made "by a machine" and that the man that owned the beach used to turn it off at night after he finished work. I argued the point with my parents ("nothing goes at night time!") to the point where they took me to the beach at 6 years old (1980) at night so they could prove to me that the waves were "still working"
2. I came to the conclusion that everyone could have had jedi powers if only they got the operation(1979). I asked my folks why they didn't let me have the operation.
3. I had model planes, and used to paint them. The good guys were always painted green and the bad guys were grey and black.
4. That when ads on TV said "you save 25c" it meant the shop put 25c in my piggy bank.
5. Every XA-B-C hardtop was Mad Max's.
6. Once my folks needed to buy new tyres and I heard them say they didn't have the money, so I asked how much 1 tyre was. My old man said $1 so I gave him 91c in 1c & 2c pieces to help out. My folks gave me back my "change" which was a $1 note.

Quite seriously, I had an awesome childhood. My folks were the best and they are still pretty cool.

[Spudz27]

My poor daughter will grow up with one if I do not tell her.

She asked me today how babies got in mummies tummy's. I thought "do I explain kind of the correct way, or do I make up some crazy story and let her think it for a while" I went with the crazy story idea and told her that the little baby starts off the size of a mosquito and it comes in at night and crawls through your nipple, then down to your tummy and grows. I will let it go for a couple of weeks, then tell her I was joking. I can't let it go too long as she will tell everyone. She once burst through our door to find us...well..., anyway she promptly told Grandma (my mum) she saw mummy and dadding hugging in bed and they were naked. My mum laughed and never lets us forget it.