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Do you remember some of the funny things you thought as a child?
I remember watching a 'mums gone to iceland' advert and turning to my mum and saying 'how silly who's gonna go all the way to iceland for some food' and mum looking at me puzzled. I thought they meant the country!
I remember wondering how all clocks and watches told the same time, I thought somone on a giant dictaphone shouted NOW and then everyone would set their clocks and that's how they tell the same time.
I remember once swallowing a large chunk of apple and worrying that it would stretch the skin on my arms passing through (I thought the food we ate travelled all around our bodies!)
I remember watching a 'mums gone to iceland' advert and turning to my mum and saying 'how silly who's gonna go all the way to iceland for some food' and mum looking at me puzzled. I thought they meant the country!
I remember wondering how all clocks and watches told the same time, I thought somone on a giant dictaphone shouted NOW and then everyone would set their clocks and that's how they tell the same time.
I remember once swallowing a large chunk of apple and worrying that it would stretch the skin on my arms passing through (I thought the food we ate travelled all around our bodies!)
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And I thought that the reason you always put the stamp on the same side of letters was because otherwise the machines (underground, of course) that sent the letter wouldn't know where to send it because it could only registered the stamp on that side.
Also, once my brother came into my room with his hands closed like he was carrying a giant spider. Then he put his hands under the duvert where my feet were and pretended he put a spider under there. After that I'd always sleep curled up so the spider didnt get my feet.
Haha aww thats too cute :angel:
Oh, and that i thought babies were born through the mouth
I was scared shitless of the kaliedoscope burn-out patterns that old 1980s TV sets did when I switched them off. It was so bad that it has manifested itself as a fear against modern TVs and monitors, even though they don't do it. It is part of my synaesthesia (the thing that makes me trip).
I remember being surprised when my mum told me they go on doing things, like we did.
when I lived in my old house there was a window that if you stood underneath you wouldn't be able to see in, so it was quite high.
Every now and then I would be playing with my toys inside on the floor and mum would be facing away from the window in the arm chair. And I would look at the window and wave, and mum would be like "who are you waving at" and I would say "the man at the window".
Now this completely freaked mum out as she could see no one but I was addimant there was someone there. She would go on to say " no, emma there is no one there" to which I would reply " yes there is, the mans come to play!"
I used to do it a lot and would freak the hell out of people. But I was addimant that someone was there. It was always the same window, and I used to talk to him.
It's quite freaky!
Just like "notanotherusername", I had a neighbor who lived opposite me and I used to think she was a witch. I would only see her at night, and one night I had some (I think) they were action men at the time, and they went missing from my room and I found them on her window sill on the side of her house the next day, and one inside. I remember climbing into her house and getting them but the house was empty, but I don't actually remember anything else. But I had a weird ass dream that night about that house, tons of crap happened in it. Like she really was a witch and I had to blow her up with bombs. That's how it ended, I always remember that dream haha. That's the only thing I actually really remember about my old house, I don't even know what the rooms looked like, apart from my bedroom (WWF wallpaper ^^) and a little closet I used to sit in on the hallway. And a huge spider on the window on the stairs day we moved to where I live now. It was huge!
also i thought bat man was real
My grandad had an answering machine, and having never seen it, I imagined it to be a robot which walked over and answered the phone for him when he wasn't there
Also someone told me when I was about 7 that those trees/bushes that have big green leaves with red stems were red because when you weren't looking, they sucked your blood out. I avoided them for years.
One of my mum's friends says that her dad told her there were lots of different coloured sheep (as in red, green, blue etc, all the colours you might expect to see in jumpers
I thought this too, and thought your dad was whoever your mum happened to be seeing at the time the baby started growing in her tummy!
I used to think that the sizes of clothes were dependant on the wearer's age. So, if I was 8 I'd be wearing clothes size 8, clothes size 35 were for people who were 35 and so on.
Also, I remember once when I was 4 or 5 I was playing at my grandma's couch and I found a pair of glasses that had fallen behind the cushion. I showed them to her and she said that those must be the glasses Electra lost when she visited her. Electra is one of my great aunts, but having never heard that name before (or I didn't remember), I imagined Electra to be a robot who had visited my grandma.
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My mum reminded me of another one. When I was little (again, about 4) she used to sing me a song that went like "...who's the lady that's going to take you". "Take you" meant "Marry you", of course, but I was afraid that some lady would come and take me away.
C-A xx
C-A x
Ive almost done things like that so many times, giving answers to questions where I have just taken peoples words for it.
Yep, I thought that too! That they just randomly started growing and there wasn't a thing you could do about it! At least my mum was off the hook for a couple of years, as I was desperate for a brother or sister, I would have given her a hard time if I had known the truth!!
C-A x
I laughed so hard at this I nearly inhaled my chocolate. I can totally imagine a teeny you doing it! Super cute
I grew up reading Famous Five books, and until I was about 10 I thought that smugglers were EVERYWHERE.
Haha i used to stay up late on Easter Eve to get up in the night and watch him hopping round the garden putting the eggs out. Always fell asleep though, never got to see him