unarmedman wrote:My parents used to have seasonal passes to Disney, so we used to go out there a lot. On the ride "It's A Small World" there are tunnels in the wall where they keep the boats after closing. I used to think those tunnels led to separate rides that I wasn't allowed on.

Your "childish" belief is unique in the fact that your current knowledge about the actual (in this case, what the tunnels are for) is just about as unique as your childish one.

Does that make sense? I mean, who the fuck knows what the tunnels in the small world ride are really for? Just you (until now)!

Does that make sense?

Maybe? I don't know, it's 5:30 in the morning, so...

I worked there in high school/early college, it was a pretty crap job, but you learn the ins and outs of the parks.

tommydski wrote:

simmo wrote:it must be some kind of weeing from which one took pleasure

That's pretty damn close to the mark for a young'un.

I used to think that when I had a boner, I just had to piss. I'd go to the bathroom and just stand there like, "what the fuck, when's something going to come out?" until my boner went away. I actually played doctor with a girl when I was 6 or 7, and I rubbed my stiffy on her butt thinking "ha ha, I'm going to pee in her butt."

I was about 6 and thought that a blow job was when "a man payed a woman to kiss her".

I remember saying that to my mother.

I remember being chuffed the day I realised I could see the earth turning. My grandad then pointed out that actually that was just the wind moving the clouds. The crushing disappointment probably put me off science and geography for the rest of my life.

I also thought that to learn another language, you just had to learn what the individual letters were in it, then you'd just transpose all the English words into it.

Colonel Panic wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:I used to think life was fair and if you were good to people good things would happen for you

Hah! How long did it take for that particular bubble to burst for you? (and please relate the event that did it)

Well, when I was a young one I had these neighbor kids, 3 brothers.
We hung out so much that we were all like brothers really, all day every day. We were as tight as friends could be. Their father got shot and killed when we were very young and my family kinda pitched in and was helping to raise them as there were 3 sisters as well on top of the 3 crazy brothers for the now single barely speaks English mom to have to worry about. We were wild of course, like all little male children are....the brothers were just a tad bit more wild than I. One day we are driving home from somewhere in the back of their mom's station wagon and the craziest brother says he is going to open the car door and leap out like a stuntman, roll on the ground and run off... we are going probably 40 miles an hour down Harlem when he says this. Now as cool as the idea was I had to caution him against it. I said it wasn't a good idea and at least wait till we slow down a little. I warned him that he could be seriously hurt. He is having none of that, opens the door and leaps out just like that. Long story short he indeed is injured quite severely.
At the hospital later all holy hell comes down on me from every angle, my parents are screaming at me, their mom is going nuts...I can't figure out what I had done.
Turns out that to avoid punishment for doing something so stupid, all 3 brothers had told anyone who would listen that I had pushed him out of the car and tried to kill him.
There were even cops involved, it was a big mess.
Never talked to them again, was a full on cold war between the two households after that....and to this day my parents still belive that I pushed him out of the car and tried to kill him.
So yeah that whole episode really changed my entire outlook on human beings and life in general.

I thought a dildo was a retarded person, until I called my sister a dildo at the dinner table. I was eduacated after dinner by a very angry dad.

When looking at the full moon, I thought I was seeing the earth from far away, replete with seas, continents &c. I was also pretty sure I was from space (specifically: Venus), my time on earth was just a short term oversight that would soon be rectified. seeing a picture of my grandfather - who looked just like me - knocked this idea into touch. Astroconfusion followed me into adulthood: until the age of 22 I thought seasons were a result of where the earth was in its elliptical orbit. Winter: far from the sun, summer: nearer. When I learnt the Australians have their Xmas in Summer I was forced to rethink.

More of this sort of thing here: http://www.iusedtobelieve.com/

MrFood wrote:

field wrote:I thought a dildo was a retarded person, until I called my sister a dildo at the dinner table. I was eduacated after dinner by a very angry dad.

What - your dad actually told you what a dildo was, and what it was specifically used for?

He didn't say it was verbal. It could have been a demonstration.

When I was young I used to think that trains rode over the peaks on the structure of the Forth Rail Bridge, pictured below.



Apart from that I understood everything. Perfectly.