misconceptions

What are some things you've thought that turned out to be completely wrong? Sexual or otherwise, things that were just completely off.

Me: When I was really little, I thought if you put a stick in the ground, it would grow into a tree.

I thought Abba broke up because they were so terrible that a terrorist group threatened to kill a bunch of people if they didn't break up.

On SG, for the longest time, I thought Random Fuckbag was an actual person, and wondered why they kept asking so much advice, and if they got banned a lot because you couldn't click on their name.

So what about everyone else? Unless I'm just extra stupid and the only person who does this.

I've done lots of things like that, way too embarrassing to admit to it though.

I used to think babies came out of buttholes...

me too.

all asian people know mad kung fu

For one, I believed all the bullshit I was fed about being an integral part of the democratic system. Man, those were simpler times.

but....we do.

Alf is Asian? I never knew. . .

well he's got the bandana with obscure characters and he's merchandise, sounds pretty asian to me, i bet you could find a made in taiwain label on him somewhere.
Gordon Shumway, Asian Life Form

When I was three or four, I was extremely upset because the bottle of Mrs. Butterworth syrup wouldn't talk to me like it talked to the kids in the commercial.

My dad told me it was because I never finished my eggs.

i have always been right about everything.

My sister taught me the concepts of "left" and "right" (the directions, not the political affiliations).

So she told me that that was my left and my right, and this was her left and her right.

So my unformed mind reasoned "Boys' and girls' lefts and rights are opposite each other."

Also, I was told if I ate the crusts of my sandwiches, my hair would turn curly like my father. This illusion was furthered by the small patch of curly hair that grow over the birth mark on my head.

you mean random fuckbag is not a person.........
how disappointing

i always believe i am a good person... i think i am wrong.

Ha! I also believed Random Fuckbag was a person!

I am thinking back on my childhood & I can't recall any assumption like that that I made. I was very coherent, even then!

For a good laugh, I'll share something my mom told me years later. She said that one time when we were waiting in line at the grocery store (I was about 3 yrs. old), I asked very loudly whether Santa Claus had a penis or not!!

[Edited on Aug 28, 2004 by Isadore]

I was under the illusion that when I graduated college so many companies would want to hire me that I would have to beat them off with a stick.

Hmmm...I think that would be an approprate most humbling moment...

[Edited on Aug 28, 2004 by MrDeity]

when i was a kid i thought that if you spun around one direction and got really dizzy you could spin around the other way and unwind. swings could do it so why couldn't i?

my personal proof of santa claus's existence was that I got a remote control car for christmas when I was 3 or 4. I knew cars cost thousands of dollars and my parents couldn't afford to just give me one for christmas, so it must have been santa.

i used to think that gum drop houses privide excelent cover in rain storms

As a kid I thought that monsters lived in the storm drains on my street, and that if I got too close they'd grab me and pull me in to kill me.

Then in high school I read Stephen King's "IT". The book opens with a little kid getting his arm torn off by the monster in a storm drain. That scared the SHIT out of me because of my personal fear.

I believed that if a cartoon character could walk over hot coals, I damn well could.

Yeah, that sucked....

when i was little, i used to think black and white tv, was actually black and white beyond the camera.

Me too.

I thought you could only see the moon at night.

I wish.

I thought 'genre' was pronounced "jen-aire" instead of "zhan-ruh".