" When I was 6 years onetime , I had a terrible understanding of how babies were made . I think your clump were ACTUAL EGGS and when you put your member inside a woman ’s vagina , your glob would fall off and go up into her stomach to produce a baby . Then , if you wanted more than two children , a ball would magically rise back . "
Reddit useru/Paris_Foxrecently asked, “What’s the dumbest thing you believed as a kid?” and the comment section is cracking me up.
1.“My mum told me we used to be apes. I believed her because she told me, but I didn’t understand why there were no photos of me of when I used to be an ape.”
2.“That songs played on the radio were being played live each time they came on. Smashing Pumpkins song at 2 a.m.? I assumed they got out of bed to play it. My parents never corrected me on that theory.”
— u / Thicgrlcutefeet
" For the longest time , I did n’t know medicine video were lip synchronise . "
— atomic number 92 / oh_alvin
3.“I thought ‘shoplifting’ was like weightlifting, only instead of weights, people were lifting the entire store building. I pictured big, burly, bald men that liked to go around heaving store buildings overhead, grunting and red-faced, like the weightlifters I’d seen on TV. I was afraid someone would try do it while we were out shopping.”
4.“Don’t drink and drive meant all drinks. My dad was super confused when I told him he wasn’t allowed to have any soda until we got home.”
— u / AtticusStaples
5.“I thought Jennifer Lopez was named Jenny Ferlopez.”
6.“I would watch the TV in horror if a character onscreen was smokingwhiledrinking alcohol. I had a vague notion that alcohol was flammable, and I was afraid they would explode.”
— u / Knitwitty66
7.“Cats are girls, and dogs are boys.”
8.“That if it was raining where I was, it was raining everywhere in the world.”
— u / velazquezisabella
9.“When I was 6 years old, I had a terrible understanding of how babies were made. I thought your balls were ACTUAL EGGS and when you put your penis inside a woman’s vagina, your ball would fall off and go up into her stomach to grow a baby. Then, if you wanted more than two children, a ball would magically grow back.”
10.“I was a big talker when I was 7 years old. My parents told me I should have my own talk show. One morning, I snuck into the living room and to the shelf where we kept our blank tapes, and I wrote my name on one of the labels. I thought that all I had to do to have my own show was to write my name on the tape. No studio bosses, no interviews, no camera. Just my name in pencil on a label and I would magically appear on the screen from behind a large curtain like Leno.”
11.“That the high pitched noise on hot summer days was electricity running through the power lines. It was really grasshoppers.”
— atomic number 92 / TheOnlyMystrice
12.“Still waiting for that watermelon in my stomach to come out.”
13.“When you went to a fast food place, the default drink was Coke, and if you wanted something else, you’d press the button on the lid (“diet” for instance) and now you had Diet Coke.”
— u / HuoXue
14.“I believe that turning the inside car lights on was illegal.”
And finally…
15.“When I was about 6 or so, I asked my dad what the button on the top of the clock by my bed was for. He said it was for the alarm. From then on, I was afraid to push it because I thought it would call the fire department.”
Now, it’s your turn! What’s the dumbest thing you believed when you were young? Comment below!
observe : Submissions have been edited for length and/or lucidness .
