My food solution for food I didn't want to eat in elementary school was to stuff it into my pockets, and then when I got out onto the playground I would dump it out in the dirt.

True story, they eventually started checking my pockets. So then I started having to stuff it into my empty milk carton.

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

July 25 2011 01:38 GMT

#22

The first time a hurricane hit I thought it was my fault for being bad.

Pretty awesome ego.

The_Templar

your Country52797 Posts

July 25 2011 02:59 GMT

#23

I thought a zillion was a real number...

RageOverdose

United States690 Posts

July 25 2011 03:15 GMT

#24

Honestly, the school should just donate unused food to a shelter or something. The ball park stadium where I work sometimes gets all the food that isn't sold at the end of the night, wraps it up, and takes it to a local homeless shelter. I took it over there once, and wow, seeing their faces light up was something else.

I used to think that the reason that weather channels knew the weather was because they controlled it, but I was under the impression that the Weather Channel was the center of it all.

Also, I used to think I'd be invincible by taking like 3000 of those vitamin tablets, specifically the tasty Flinstones ones. I figured, if one tablet is good for you, many more at a time was. Luckily, my mom knew of my antics and made sure I didn't overdo it (I then learned some vitamins you shouldn't take too many of at a time).

SarR

476 Posts

July 25 2011 04:16 GMT

#25

I used to wonder how cars still had lights during a power outage.

Pengu1n

United States552 Posts

July 25 2011 04:54 GMT

#26

In preschool some kid who didn't like me told me if i showed up to school the next day he was going to bring his pet dragon to eat me.

i begged my parents to let me stay home the next day

dlcofls21

71 Posts

July 25 2011 05:05 GMT

#27

In trying to explain how the hell the world/sun/rest of universe worked, I thought really hard, and figured that the universe is a sphere which contains the earth, which doesn't move, and the sun/moon which move around the earth, and that the sun gives light and the moon sucks it all away.
Here is a diagram showing how it works, note that the sun is happy and smiling, and the moon has evil eyebrows and sharp teeth. This was when I was 4.

+ Show Spoiler +

SarR

476 Posts

July 25 2011 05:41 GMT

#28

On July 25 2011 14:05 dlcofls21 wrote:
In trying to explain how the hell the world/sun/rest of universe worked, I thought really hard, and figured that the universe is a sphere which contains the earth, which doesn't move, and the sun/moon which move around the earth, and that the sun gives light and the moon sucks it all away.
Here is a diagram showing how it works, note that the sun is happy and smiling, and the moon has evil eyebrows and sharp teeth. This was when I was 4.

+ Show Spoiler +

Thats joke..as a kid I wondered the same thing and the best I came up with was that construction workers built the earth. I kid you not. I had no theory for the stars or the moon though.

Cute drawing btw.

targ

Malaysia445 Posts

July 25 2011 08:13 GMT

#29

When I was a kid I used to think there was someone in the ATM machine.

Off topic: My dad thinks like a kid sometimes btw. He watches me play games occasionally. Once I was playing DOTA, and I was running from another hero.

So he asks me "why are you running from something smaller than yourself?"

Another time I was playing God of War. He asked me "won't he get cold wearing so little?"

Malks

United Kingdom94 Posts

July 25 2011 09:13 GMT

#30

When I was at school, when it was time for lunch, we were sat at these large wooden tables that seated about twenty. No one was allowed to leave the table until everyone had finished, as per the teacher's judgement. I was never the fastest eater so I was always the last one at the table and people started egging me on to hurry up so they could go and play.

When I was much younger in my nursery/primary school, apparently I would hide the meals I didn't like in my cheeks, like some kind of hamster. I'd eat my pudding happily with these little pouches of meat in the corners, and would then go to the toilet afterwards and spit it all out before hometime.

I also remember trying to trick a kid I didn't like that I was a raptor in disguise and would eat him if he continued to annoy me. He told a teacher, but he got in trouble for making up stories since I was such a nice lad I couldn't possible have said such things.

Maliris

Northern Ireland2557 Posts

July 25 2011 12:10 GMT

#31

When I was a young I used to believe in God

TheGiz

Canada708 Posts

July 25 2011 12:42 GMT

#32

When I was in grade 2 sexual education became a part of the school curriculum. We were taught all about menstruation, intercourse, pregnancy, and birth (albeit from a responsible Catholic perspective - the biology was still all there).

Even though I knew about intercourse, my brain took a couple more years to make the conceptual connection between intercourse and sex. I used to watch Red Shoe Diaries late at night on TV (9pm on a Friday, wow), and even then I thought sex was making out naked and rubbing against each other under the sheets. I masturbated, and I still didn't see the connection for a while.

When I went grocery shopping in NY with my mom I used to make the distinction between different shades of Black people. I'd refer to them as Black or Brown, based on how dark their skin was.

Loser777

1931 Posts

July 25 2011 15:24 GMT

#33

It seems weird, but I don't remember having that many AH-HA! moments as a kid... probably because my own reasoning wasn't so firmly ingrained--though I did have my share of misconceptions.

I used to not understand why people didn't know where North or any given direction was at a location because when I learned about the cardinal directions North was always drawn in a certain way (up).

I used to not be able to tell the difference between a computer and a computer monitor.

Figuring out how to play StarCraft properly was also a huge leap for me... even at age 13 or so I still refused to use hotkeys, thinking that since I could spend resources quickly enough (not really) with just mouse, I didn't need hotkeys. Box and Go baby... Mouse-only was so stuck in my head that I probably didn't even discover a-move until a year after I started learning hotkeys.

SarR

476 Posts

July 25 2011 19:51 GMT

#34

On July 25 2011 21:10 Maliris wrote:
When I was a young I used to believe in God

Shamefully, i believed that shit well into adulthood

Slurgi

United States118 Posts

July 25 2011 22:59 GMT

#35

I used to believe all food was stored in the bellybutton, and it had some sort of shrinking mechanism so that it could all fit there. It made sense to me because pregnant women eat a lot, and also sometimes have large belly buttons. Also, the larger kids in my school had "outies".

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

July 26 2011 02:54 GMT

#36

I saw santa but when I entered the room he climbed out through the window. True story

edit: no joke. My mom slept in the room next door and my Dad next to that room and both were asleep in their beds. I checked my brother's room. He hit me with a pillow for catching him playing video games lol.