What did u believe/do as a child that makes you think u must have been a bit dim ?

Question

When I was a child my mother told me that if I stayed in the bath too long I would turn into a prune. At first I was like 'Yeah, right. I don't believe you' But then she said she was telling the truth, and I actually believed her. For years I would never stay in the bath too long because I believed I would turn into an actual prune.

Was I more dim than the rest of you, or do u guys have similar stories?

I think all of these answer my question really well, and I love all the answers so I am going to put it to a vote.
Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

Put my foot through the spokes on an exercise bike and messed up my foot

Answer 2

After hearing people go on and on about how you shouldn't lick metal outside in the winter, I just had to try it to find out if it was true. Then I was so embarrassed that I didn't want to draw attention to myself, so I just quietly pulled my tongue off the chainlink fence and left a little skin behind. Ow ow ow.

Haha... and there was one time when I was talking with my uncles about how cool it would be if snow came in all different colours so you could make a snowman that wasn't just white, but it would have a red mouth and blue eyes and so on. Then I went out to play with the dog. A few minutes later, I came back all excited with my mittens full of yellow snow to show everybody.

Answer 3

I have a few, but I'll pick the best one i can think of. When i was growing up, my dad would always tell me that there were whirlpools in this river we would go by for family picnics to keep me away from it. Well, i was a Senior in High School, and my friends and I went to the same river and were of course partying. Well some of the guys wanted to go skinny dipping, and i freaked because of the whirlpools in the river. I got laughed at for a week. And my dad got his butt chewed, and needless to say 10 yrs later my dad still doesn't let me live that one down.

Answer 4

When I was eight I was eating an orange, and inadvertently swallowed a couple of seeds. Since I'd never done that, I asked my mother if it was ok, and she told me I'd turn into an orange tree. When she saw how mortified that made me, she quickly reassured me that she was only joking.

Oh, and I believed in Santa Claus until I was 16. Just goes to show you, we get smarter as we get older! :-)

Answer 5

Here's my goofy youthful misconception: I thought that the more naked people that women saw, the bigger their butts got. That is the strangest thing ever and I'll never know why I thought it. Maybe because I was a product of the 70's.

Answer 6

i believed in santa but my mum ruined it for me she told me not to waste my time writing letters to santa and puting them up the chimney she said other boys of nineteen are out looking for girls with their friends xmas as never been the same since

Answer 7

when i was about 3 my brother told me that at midnight my socks left the drawer and held meetings elsewhere in my house.

it's a bit alarming that i believed him for years.

Answer 8

I thought that Mr.Bubble was in the tub with me (freaked me out) and if I closed my eyes no one could see me.

Answer 9

not more dim, I confused the whipped animal fat in Twinkies for whipped animal fat in mayonnaise which is actually made from eggs, but it was just locked in there.

Answer 10

I thought that after you were married, kids just magically appeared. Knew nothing about how you made them!!