Things you believed as a kid.....

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I'm sure we all believed some pretty daft stuff as kids....Like if you pressed your bellybutton, your legs would fall off; or if your foot came out from under the covers when you were in bed, the monsters would eat it.....etc. etc. etc.

( I think I had a dodgy childhood :lol: )

So come on....You're an odd bunch, you must have believed some weird ****** :lol:
 
I thought a monster hid in the large fir tree in the garden that faced the bedroom. It had machine guns trained on my bedroom window.
 
If you put a screwdriver in your belly button and turned it enough times, your arse would fall off.

Clouds came from cloud machines (factories with big chimneys).

Upon visiting The Eagles Nest in Germany, Hitlers mountain hiding place, I thought it was our job to try and find him.

The carpet is lava!
 
I was repeatedly told that a 3 letter word entity was real... Once I was old enough to make an informed choice, I chose not to believe in doG any more!
 
Oh, and I once believed that radios were full of tiny little people with musical instruments.

I know...I know.....:bonk:
 
I managed to persuade my brother that he was adopted. He actually wasn't.
 
Nod said:
I was repeatedly told that a 3 letter word entity was real... Once I was old enough to make an informed choice, I chose not to believe in doG any more!
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Funny, considering all the carp I used to believe as a kid, that's the one thing I never fell for, even at a Catholic primary school. :lol:
 
If you stood on the cracks in pavements or between paving slabs you would fall through them! :lol:
 
No, Sarah! If you step on the cracks, bears chase you! I now believe that if you step on a wobbly paver after rain, my danglies will be squirted with water. I know this to be true. :(
 
Swallowing chewing gum would rap round your heart and kill you.
 
a friend of mine believed that if the ice cream van played it's tune it meant it had run out of ice cream
 
I thought there was a 'Jolly Green Giant' in the park behind my garden at night and if I looked out of my bedroom window he would push tall trees onto the house and smash it. :cuckoo: Obviously not that bloody jolly lol

Dunno where that came from, must have had an overactive imagination (or troubled upbringing lol)
 
joescrivens said:
a friend of mine believed that if the ice cream van played it's tune it meant it had run out of ice cream
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You mean his parents told him that to stop him asking for money for ice creams :lol:
 
starkersclark said:
If you stood on the cracks in pavements or between paving slabs you would fall through them! :lol:
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Yes, that was my one , I looked well walking home from school
 
On a snowy day older brother said we should look out the window as we might see a blizzard.
Being only about 4 I thought he said 'Blizz Bird' and watched in fear and awe expecting some enormous white bird to swoop down.

It must've been about then my first go at sledging.
It was so exciting I remember trying to recreate the experience at first light the following day, but could not quite work out why the grassy hill was no longer slippy (it had all melted...)
 
That was I was Chinese.

By all accounts I was quite worried after my mum had said something like every third child born in the world was Chinese.
 
I had a little radio as a kid and liked listening to the charts on a Sunday, I always used to think if I had to turn it off for any reason it would just start again where i left it.

One we tell our own boys now is that the alarm sensors in the corners of the room are also linked to Santa so he can see if they're being good or not. When it's red Santa cam is on lol.
 
> On windy nights, if you turned your head towards the woods at the end of the street and listened carefully you'd hear the trees screaming as the leaves were torn from their branches.

> There was an enchanted tree in the woods and fairies had made their home there. Their favourite food was obviously fairy cake and you would have 7 days of good luck if you left them some crumbs at the base of the tree.

> Never, ever look behind you when riding your bike back from the shops. The woman who lived in the flat above was a witch and if she knew you'd turned around and spotted her watching you from the window she'd poison the next bag of sweets that you bought.

> Only ever ride your bike clockwise around the square. Ride anti-clockwise and the ghost of a kid who'd died there in a cycling accident would follow you home. (BTW I don't actually think anyone had ever died there!!!)



:lol: OK . . . so I had a dark and vivid imagination !!!
I'm sure I could think of some more if I thought about it.
 
These are brilliant :lol:
I've hear the ice cream van one a few times....sees to be a parenting skill taught rather commonly!
 
"If the wind changes your face will stay that way" said to me whenever I pulled a gurney face. I believed it for a while.
 
joescrivens said:
a friend of mine believed that if the ice cream van played it's tune it meant it had run out of ice cream
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luckily I had put my coffee down else I'd be suing for a Macbook Pro :D

brilliant..

if you pick and smell yellow dandelions you would wee the bed.

swallowing chewing gum would swell up in you belly and kill you

I was told eating crusts would put hairs on my chest, my sisters were told it would make their hair curly.

eating apple pips meant a tree would grow inside you
 
Picking dandelions would make you wee the bed, and earwigs would crawl in your ears and live there if you laid on the grass :(
 
As a toddler I used to play with a big ornamental brass fork that used to hang from the fireplace. My parents didn't like me playing with it so my Father used to tell me it belonged to the "Cawr Mawr" (big giant) who didn't like children playing with his cutlery and that thunderstorms were really the giant showing his anger. :)
 
To listen to English radio stations, your radio had to be made in England.

Lads with small nipples were stronger.

When cupping your hand to your ear to "hear the sea," you were actually hearing the sea.
 
If you coughed really hard you could poo your pants. :lol:


Oh :|

:'(

Anyone got a spare pair of budgie smugglers..
 
My husband told his kids (and nephews) that the car had a "turbo" button - which was actually the hazard warning lights. He would press it and accelerate sharply while making a loud wooohooo. They totally believed it for years, often asking other relatives if they had a turbo button or pointing it out whenever they saw it in another car. His daughter took the prize, however, when she excitedly told her boyfriend "oh look your car has a turbo button" when he took her out after passing his test. She was 17 at the time!
 
Years ago when my 3 were young I took them to Tring Museum, and told them about a ferocious monster called a Staffonly behind a door next to one of the exhibits. And had them looking out of the Eurotunnel Shuttle windows for fish.
 
We convinced friends that Cheesybugs were made of cheese

Along with the ice cream music, the apple pip into trees, the chewing gum tangling in your stomach, stepping on a crack would break your mother's back. I also remember we watched a Stephen King movie and thought if we walked over a frid drain thing we'd be sucked in by something
 
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