What's a thought you had as a child, that in retrospect, is incorrect in a hilarious way?

Question

I'll give you an example of one of mine...

I remember when I was 5 or 6, and we'd pass a house that had a pick-up truck bed sitting in the yard, I would honestly think that the rest of the truck was buried in the ground, and what i was looking at was the top of a pickup truck sticking out of the ground. LOL

Now, I had no idea WHY people buried their trucks...but he concept of the bed being separate from the truck never struck me until i askd my mom why people bury their trucks and she explained it. Anyway, do any of you have beleifs from early childhood that are the product of total innocence to how the world worked that in retrospect are absolutely hilarious?

Answer 1

I thought the olden days were all black and white because of the pictures.
I thought everyone had a dick.
I thought Red Bulls were a dangerous drug.
I used to think there were 100 seconds in a minute.

Answer 2

I thought that whenever you put a record on the turntable, a buzzer would go off in the home of the recording artist and he would have to get up and sing the song for you, like over a telephone. So I kept asking my mom questions like, "what if we put on that record but the guy was in the bathroom?", and she had no idea what I was talking about. I also saw all those buses with "charter" on the front display, and thought Charter must be a really popular tourist destination.

Answer 3

When I was like 5 or 6 and learning major cities in school, we were driving on the freeway and I saw a "55 mph" sign. I mistakenly but hilariously said aloud, "Look mom, 55 miles to Memphis!! (mph)" She laughed at me and said, "Honey, that means Miles Per Hour". I got very angry, thinking I was right, and started yelling at my mom. We argued for about 5 minutes, and finally she gave up. It wasn't until about a year of reading speed signs that I finally realized what it really meant, and that California was nowhere near Tennessee. :)

Answer 4

I actually believed my uncle Paul when he told me he could fly up to the roof of the house. I was 5 or 6 and I didn't see any ladder. Paul was up on the rooftop and he must have gotten there somehow.
He told me if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get up there, too. He had a good laugh at that one.

Answer 5

i used to think people kept tubes of water in their attic, and squeezed them out to make icicles on the rafters
i also thought of a way to make cars go faster - like have a machine with 12 grapling hooks on a roller on the grill of a car. the hooks would shoot out 3 at a time, dig into the asphalt, and pull the car forward. as the car got close, the next set would shoot out, etc.
wild, i know.

Answer 6

I used to think that the TV had film in it...

and that the ferris wheel seat turned upside down at the bottom (for the life of me I could not figure out how people got off of them like that!)

Answer 7

Because of our dog having puppies and conceiving while she was in heat, I assumed woman could only get pregnant during their periods, which I told all my girl friends. We all decided we would probably never have any children.

Answer 8

I used to think that White women could never use a curling iron to curl their hair because it would burn off, just like my Barbie doll's hair. That was real foolish.

Answer 9

When I was 3 or 4 my mother was baking a cake....I asked her what she was doing....she responded....Oh,we're having company tonight.....So I thought that coconut cake was called company......I guess I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer back then.......mmmmm company cake sure sounds good.