What silly thing did you once believe in?

[6079SmithW]

I once believed that a bachelor's degree was actually worth something and would guarantee me a job. Oh, sure, it gives you an edge over H.S. degree people in the minimum wage service sector but you really need a PhD to do work in line with your major.

 

[RoJoHen]

I once believed that a bachelor's degree was actually worth something

So true...

 

[Kestra]

This makes me sad.

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

Sorry dude. If it makes you feel any better, I think it's silly that I believed in it, but I don't think it's silly for other people to believe in it. Whatever works for you, you know? And my life's working out okay without friendships. Like I said, I have a lot of acquaintances and I do have an active social life so that's something.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Getting smashed.

 

[6079SmithW]

That the Star Wars prequels were the best thing since sliced bread. Now that I am not a child, I look at them and my reactions range from "Dear Lord" to "God awful."

 

[sidious618]

This makes me sad.

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

Same here. Sure, sometimes friendships go south but what doesn't? I have made some awesome friends recently who I love and respect. It's great.

 

[Kestra]

Well, I'm glad you've had that experience and that you have people like that in your life.

 

[Kira's Mom]

When I was about five, I believed that the P head from the PBS ident would jump out of the T.V. and eat me.

I think it was the music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRDFasub44

 

[auntiehill]

I saw the original Dracula movie on TV when I was about 6 or 7, and was afraid to sleep with the windows open that summer---Dracula might fly in!

I also have very clear memories of believing that my stuffed animals had feelings, and were my close personal friends.

OK, I was a lonely kid.

 

[gturner]

When I was little I believed in the Easter Bunny. Now that I'm older and live with bunnies I realize how stupid that was. Bunnies don't lay eggs, so the Easter creature must be a monotreme, either a duck-billed platypus or a spiny echidna.

 

[RoJoHen]

I always figured the Easter Bunny was an egg thief and acquired his eggs by less-than-ethical means.

 

[Shatinator]

when I was a boy I thought Eon and Ion were the same thing, i know silly

-The Shatinator

 

[Daedalus12]

I used to believe that Darth Vader is purely evil. Now I just think he is someone who is terribly misunderstood by the public and who desperately needs a better PR team. I've personally recommended him to wear his mask less so he can reveal his boyish charm beneath more and to get Jar Jar Binks and Pikachu as his new underlings.

 

[Hunter X]

I also have very clear memories of believing that my stuffed animals had feelings, and were my close personal friends.

This.

Also, when I was 3 or 4 there was a street light just behind the trees out my bedroom window. I had the top bunk in my room, so I had a clear view of it and thought it was a robber with his flashlight waiting for me to fall asleep so he could break in. Eventually my mom explained to me that it was just a street light. I proceeded to take my tape recorder and sing a song about how I used to be afraid of the street light, then fell asleep.

 

[Amaris]

When I was 4 or 5, we lived near a steel mill. At night, when the rest of the town was quiet, you could hear the noises in the wind, and anyone who lives in a big city and walks around at night when there's no one around knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's like wind, but it seems like it has a purpose, like a sense of foreboding. Anyway, my mom used to tell me stories about how at night, the clouds overhead (red/purplish clouds at night light up by the fires in the mill) were alive, and that they could see in the hearts of every person whom they passed over, and that they could follow that person around if they were bad. I believed it for years.

 

[Bears Discover Fire]

My mom used to tell my sister and I that we asked for chicken nuggets from McDonald's on the way home from our births at the hospital.

I plead the fifth, but my sister believed that one until she was 15!

 

[Me-Ike]

I also have very clear memories of believing that my stuffed animals had feelings, and were my close personal friends.

OK, I was a lonely kid.

I believed the same thing. For a while I even "fed" them regularly. With nothing, but I'm sure they appreciated the gesture.
It still makes it impossible for me to throw away those which I liked the most. I have them in the attic somewhere.

I also believed (at night) that the ticking of the clock was skeletons coming to get me.

Or that (and I really don't know why) Skeletor would come through the toilet whenever I'm on it and, again, get me.

I am not as frightened about life as I should be.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Or that (and I really don't know why) Skeletor would come through the toilet whenever I'm on it and, again, get me.

Is the piping network Skeletor's usual means of travel? Or was he just so desperate to get you he'd try anything?

For my toilet-related sillyness, at around age 4-5 I believed my wellington boots might well be full of toilet waste, and would carefully study them rather than just slipping them on right away. How the waste would get in there, I don't know...but it might.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

I once believed that George Lucas was sane. In 1987 when I was 9, I thought that the 1st season of TNG was good.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I once truly believed if you could hold your breath long enough you would eventually go invisible.....i have no idea where the idea came from.