when i was a kid i thought...

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On my first day of second grade, when I walked into the classroom I was surprised that everybody looked normal sized, since I knew that second graders were bigger than first graders I expected them to look bigger.

That was the first time it occurred to me that adults might look normal sized to other adults.

I used to think at the store that if something cost say $8.35 for example, and you handed the cashier a $5 bill, then the cashier would give you $3.35 back to make up for what you didn't have. That is what I thought making change was. Too bad that isn't how it works.

When I was a kid, I thought you could get money from the bank not even knowing that is where you keep your money and you earn it and put it there.

I didn't know all grown ups had hair down there and all women had breasts.

I thought you stay the same age if you don't blow out candles on your birthday.

When you die, you turn into a star and you are up in the sky looking down at the earth

All the people on TV were fake and made up not even knowing they were actors acting

I thought I would meet Macuely Culkin and marry him

I thought Jurassic Park existed Kids kept telling me they were there and have been there or wanted to go there but when I was 10 I knew it was all fake

I thought I could make myself be like everyone else

I thought I could get myself to do the splits if I keep trying

I thought Dalmatians could talk

I thought all dogs were dangerous and they bite you for no reason

When I was a kid, I thought inside my stomach was a mill wheel that ground all the food I ate and made it into excrement. I could never understand what there was in there that made it so smelly and messy.

When I was a kid I used to think that being ill with like a cold or the flu was my 'imagination' and 'it couldn't be that bad'. I thought that I wasn't ill until I had a 'fever over one-oh-fore' and I thought it had something to do with golf.


Merle

I always thought that everyone was sick when I was

I thought that everyone had a bedtime they made themselves (I've never had a bedtime, I just tend to go to bed when I start to feel tired [usually around 10ish, but then I check WP and end up being up till 12ish O.o])

I thought heat waves on hot asphalt was a portal to a different dimention. I found you had to move towards them and then close your eyes to step inside, because if you left your eyes open they would ever be before you no matter how fast you ran to them.

Merle

I thought the number system ended at 59 because my dad taught me numbers and how to count using a digital clock.

Imagine my shock when I went to school and found out about the number 60.

I thought that I was the only conscious object in existence, because it isn't possible to directly perceive another's consciousness. In the end, I decided that I would act as though everybody else was conscious even if they weren't, even though I wasn't sure based on evidence. This is a kind of faith, I think.

I also thought that anything human-shaped was a human, which led me to be terrified of those headless shop dummies (for I thought they were decapitated corpses). I used to have horrible nightmares about those "head-off men" as I called them, nightmares I can still remember.

when I was a kid I thought all cars with something on top was a police car. I thought all taxis or cabs were police cars and startled a driver of a taxi once by asking "Mr. Officer" to take me home, because I had run from bullies on the play ground and I was lost.

("Mr. Officer" did drive me home and charged my parents for the trip, I soon learned the difference between police cars and taxis after that! *rubs her backsides*)

Merle

I thought that police officers arrested people without reason. I also thought that police officers could not be arrested themselves. I didn't want to be arrested, so decided I wanted to be a police officer when I grew up.

When I was a kid.....I thought I'd be able to remember my childhood, when I got older. I was wrong.

When I was a pre-schooler I thought:

- there was a dinosaur under the Holmenkollen ski jump hill
- that when someone moved, they swapped apartment with the person buying their previous home. Otherwise there would always be someone moving and then the country would become so intermittent

A neighbourhood girl claimed a heart could be broken if you jumped on someone`s back. I had my doubts about that one. I should add that in Norwegian the word for breaking a heart and breakng for instance a leg, are 2 completely different words. The word she used mean literally breaking a heart as if it was a leg.

I got upset when my mother said that Norway was a small country. I would say "Well, can you walk across it in a day?" Of course the answer is no. "Well, then it is not small."

When I was little I could NOT understand owning a condominium. I thought they could just carve it out of the side of the apartment building and take it with them ( I knew they could move houses, I saw houses being moved) but try as they could to explain it to me, I was recalcitrant in my belief.

When I was little I like the feel of the name of the auto race in Monaco. I would run around the house when it was on ABC's Wide World of Sports yelling it at the top of my lungs. I remember my parents trying to tell me the X was not pronounced in French. I remember saying I didn't care and taking off for another run around the house screaming it to the neighbors. I remember my stunned mortification when my uncle finally took me into the BATHROOM (I guess it was private and small, so I would stop running around) and telling me the Grand Prix Motor Race was prounced PREE and not prounounced like a nick name for a man's penis.


(I was mortified, but I still liked the sound of the word in my mouth.)

Merle

I used to think that one could leap from Britain to Ireland, crossing the North Channel, in a single bound.

I used to think that if I looked into a cat's eyes, my pupils would form into slits and my irises would turn green, just like my cat's eyes.

I thought that the weatherman on TV was looking at ME and watching my every move. I hid from him and covered his face with a towel.

People had no life unless they were in my presence. For example, my grandparents visited us every summer. They lived in "Tennessee." I thought "Tennessee" was just a concrete one-room building across town with a door with bars on it. The grandparents would just stand in that room until it was time to see me again. I couldn't understand why they couldn't visit more often.

I thought I could stay alive forever as long as I kept my eyes open.

I thought teachers lived at school.

I thought I could fly if I flapped my arms hard enough.

I thought that as long as I stood in a tree's shadow, I was invisible.