What silly thing did you once believe in?

[Miss Chicken]

Maybe it would be best if we didn't include any religious beliefs in this thread.

When I was a little girl I believed that a big bad wolf lived between the fence and the big shed in our back yard. This section of the yard was overgrown and full of junk, broken glass etc so maybe my mother 'encouraged' the belief to keep us away.

One day my sisters, myself and my cousin Paul decided that we were sick of being frightened of this wolf. We armed ourselves with weapons and went hunting for it planning to either kill it or frighten it away. I was the youngest (maybe 4 years old) so I was in the rear. Paul aged seven was in the front. We never found the wolf.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

i once believed that the red mites you zsee in the playground could truly suck out all of your blood if they bit you nand latchd on. Sgouldn't have listened to my friend Nikki, she was full of lies like that. Og course, I was vabout 4 at the time, and by about 6 I knew better, but still-scary.

 

[Jetfire]

That I would be King of my own country...I still believe it.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

That I would be King of my own country...I still believe it.

Kneel befgoire Jeffire!!!

 

[think]

I am still waiting to see if when I cry wolf errrr

I am still waiting to see if when I cry alien will the alien come and get me? LOL

 

[McCoy]

When I was little I asked my grandmother (who'd had thyroid surgery, not that I knew that) what the big scar around her neck was from. She said she had an operation where they cut off her head and then sewed it back on.

I believed that for much longer than was natural.

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

My dad told us that if we swallowed watermelon seeds, one would grow in our stomachs. Likewise if we got one in our ear, it would grow there.

I remember my cousin and I chasing my younger sister around the yard one 4th of July trying to put a watermelon seed in her ear.

I also told her that there were monsters in the closet and if her closet door wasn't fully closed, it would come out and get her in the night. 30 years later, she says she still can't sleep with a closet door open.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

My dad told us that if we swallowed watermelon seeds, one would grow in our stomachs.

Lke in that "rUGRATS" episode?

 

[RandyS]

The concepts of true love and happily ever after.

Granted, I've found the former, but it remains to be seen if it will translate into the latter.

 

[Amaris]

My dad told us that if we swallowed watermelon seeds, one would grow in our stomachs. Likewise if we got one in our ear, it would grow there.

I remember my cousin and I chasing my younger sister around the yard one 4th of July trying to put a watermelon seed in her ear.

I also told her that there were monsters in the closet and if her closet door wasn't fully closed, it would come out and get her in the night. 30 years later, she says she still can't sleep with a closet door open.

When I was 6, my Uncle told me the same thing about the watermelon seeds. My reply at the time was something along the lines of "But the acid in my stomach should kill it, right?". Sucked the fun out of that one, I did!

 

[Joeman]

I was totally going religious, so my hat is off to you for nipping that right in the bud. Well done!


My grandfather used to drink Schlitz beer. I don't really recall him ever being or acting drunk, but he drank it all the time (or so it seemed to me). I must have asked him a thousand times if I could have some. He seemed to enjoy it so much, so obviously I wanted me some of that. His answer was always "No. It'll put hair on your chest". Of course I totally believed that, but I kind of wanted hair on my chest. I thought that would be cool.


40 years and thousands of beers later, I have about 10 hairs on my chest. Myth busted.

 

[Miss Chicken]

When I was little I asked my grandmother (who'd had thyroid surgery, not that I knew that) what the big scar around her neck was from. She said she had an operation where they cut off her head and then sewed it back on.

I believed that for much longer than was natural.

Along similar lines -my brother badly damaged a kidney while playing rugby and he had to have half of the kidney removed. This was before keyhole surgery so he ended up with a huge scar.

When my eldest sun was about 5 he asked my brother about the scar. My brother said that he had been attacked by a shark while in a swimming pool. It took months for me to convince my son that this was a fib.

 

[Kestra]

That swallowing any toothpaste at all would kill me (thanks sis), that life was over when I didn't have a bachelors degree at the same time as all my friends, and friendship.

 

[xortex]

My french cousin's father told him that the smoke stacks in New Jersey were where they burned the witches. He believed that well into adulthood. His father had a serious sense of humer.

 

[Finn]

I once thought I would be married with kids by 2003. I didn't even meet my fiancee until 2006 and got together in 2009

 

[McCoy]

...friendship.

Uh-oh, what happened?

 

[Kestra]

...friendship.

Uh-oh, what happened?

Eh, nothing spectacular, I've just realized that I don't really believe in the concept of friendship. Or perhaps I've never really understood it. I have people I get along with, people I care for, etc. I just don't believe in friendship anymore and think it's a bit silly I spent so many years chasing it.

 

[RoJoHen]

My dad told us that if we swallowed watermelon seeds, one would grow in our stomachs.

In the case of my mother, if you swallow a watermelon seed, it will get lodged in your appendix and almost kill you. Not a good time.

 

[RoJoHen]

...friendship.

Uh-oh, what happened?

Eh, nothing spectacular, I've just realized that I don't really believe in the concept of friendship. Or perhaps I've never really understood it. I have people I get along with, people I care for, etc. I just don't believe in friendship anymore and think it's a bit silly I spent so many years chasing it.

This makes me sad.

If there's one thing I am positive about, it's friendship.

 

[Jetfire]

...friendship.

Uh-oh, what happened?

Eh, nothing spectacular, I've just realized that I don't really believe in the concept of friendship. Or perhaps I've never really understood it. I have people I get along with, people I care for, etc. I just don't believe in friendship anymore and think it's a bit silly I spent so many years chasing it.

Agreed.