Overhaulin'

What did you believe was true when you were a kid???

I used to think if you swallowed an apple pip then a tree would grow in your belly - also I used to think that at a Car Sales Forecourt they took out each Car's engine every night to avoid them being stolen............weirdo I know am!! xx

Public Comments

1. Is that a question????
2. I believed that to be a film star you had to eat a lot of meat. (My mum tolf me this when I said id like to be a filmstar - (and I absolutely hated meat) - it was meant to put me off the idea - and it worked!
3. i thought that the A team were real i was devastated when told it was just made up
4. similar was my position.
5. heaven and hell
6. I used to believe that when it Thunder's god was moving his furniture,And when it was raining god was crying.
7. I believed that you could get a cold from going into the rain, and I also believed that apatments were like vacation houses, i didn't know that people lived there for years, and I was once told that the salvation army dumpsters were for trash, so I used them as trash cans for yearas. I think my grandpa told me that so I wouldnt go picking through the stuff.....
8. No, not really weird. This kind of things like if a seed went in your syomach, atree would grow was avery common belief.I think our parents told us these things so that we were a little more careful while eating fruits etc. Another thing I remember is, if you spit on some body , a boil will grow on your body, --that really scared you. etc.
9. My mum told me that drinking neat cordial like orange would give me worms. I didnt realise until I was much older that she was lying! My husband picked up the Robinsons orange juice to take a swig neat and I told him he would get worms. I think he laughed for about 3 hours!! I also believed 100% in the easter bunny!! Oh and that if I ate my crusts my hair would br curly! I loved my crusts but I always used to leave them because I hate curly hair!! (I already have very curly hair)
10. I used to think that if you sat too close to the tv you got square eyes, or that if you pulled faces when the wind blew, you would stay like that. LOL!
11. I thought if somebody untied your bellybutton you would die and all your blood would leak out.
12. That's awesome!! I believed that every band and artist was in the radio station studio singing every song on the radio.
13. Our parents told us the we needed to eat the food on our plate. What we didn't eat had to be thrown away and that was wasteful. They said that children in China were starving. I thought, OK uhh ...do the kids in China have to eat our garbage??? And if they did, how did they get it??? And, Why in the world would people from the US make little kids in China eat garbage?? OK This is weird I know. But I was only 5 or 6 years old. LOL>>>>
14. That my Father was really my Father
15. I believed that if I swallowed a watermelon seed that I would die because a watermelon would grow in my tummy. I also believed that if I could get the glass off the front of the TV ... that I could crawl into that world .
16. The same for the first one but I also believed it is better to put it in the garden thus more trees. Teachers have back eyes I believed that young people must not die b4 their elder relatives, therefore when my Father died I though he is lying on me and some day he will come back and say I am back and missed you a lot! I thought that if people concentrate on someone can see what he is doing (I also though how looser I am not being able to do this) actually I had a good imagination in the pass but now unfortunately, I am a realistic person I have to see than believe. I also believed that all people are angels and love each other try to help each other when needed…. Oops, I was disappointed
17. I will bet your glad, you never swollowed a pumpkin seed. From the old westerns, i used to watch. If I cut my finger, with my best friend, and we put our fingers together, we are now "blood brother's" for life. It was like swearing an oath. <}:-})
18. I used to believe that the dentist office did not use needles when numbing one's gums before drilling. My mother used to have us close our eyes before the dentist gave the shot. After being ridiculed by classmates who insisted that the dentist did give shots, my mom had to confess. My mom is the best!
19. I was told that if you ate the crust on bread, you'd get curly hair! I was also told the same as you about apple pips!