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Things you believed as children....

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VioletSky Thu 09-Sept-21 16:50:23

That you brought into adulthood.

2 things I finally learnt the truth of:

I thought astronauts boots were really heavy to compensate for lower gravity untill I learned that's not how gravity works ie: if you drop a heavy ball and a light ball of the same siz they hit the ground at the same time.

I thought a "launch window" was a place in the atmosphere that was thinner and so safer to launch rockets through until I learned it is the time when the earth is in the right orbital position for the rocket to launch in the direction it wants to go.

Both into my 40s!

How about you?

NotSpaghetti Thu 09-Sept-21 16:58:05

Can't really think of anything other than Santa. I felt lied to when I learned the truth.
Oh, maybe the tooth fairy?

Redhead56 Thu 09-Sept-21 17:18:21

I was devistated to hear Father Christmas didn't exist.

Lucca Thu 09-Sept-21 17:24:52

I though cats were the girls and dogs were the boys.

No I haven’t carried that into adulthood.

VioletSky Thu 09-Sept-21 17:25:22

Oh dear because I have lots...

I though Sean and Shawn had different pronunciations is another one

VioletSky Thu 09-Sept-21 17:26:16

Also I learnt that the little piggy didn't go to market to buy groceries...

Blossoming Thu 09-Sept-21 17:30:04

I believed that the head of the Roman Catholic Church was called The Poke, and he used the pastoral staff for poking.

Charleygirl5 Thu 09-Sept-21 17:31:50

There were fairies at the bottom of my garden and I was found under a gooseberry bush. I did not bring either into adulthood!

Ashcombe Thu 09-Sept-21 17:35:47

I thought that people grew smaller as they aged because my elderly great aunt was a similar height to me!

Lucca Thu 09-Sept-21 17:38:44

Blossoming

I believed that the head of the Roman Catholic Church was called The Poke, and he used the pastoral staff for poking.

?

Juliet27 Thu 09-Sept-21 17:39:14

VioletSky

Also I learnt that the little piggy didn't go to market to buy groceries...

That reminded me that somebody I worked with had a pet pig called Curlywee. She came into work one day to say he’d gone to market and because I sounded so shocked she said ‘oh only visiting’.

VioletSky Thu 09-Sept-21 17:53:05

Ashcombe

I thought that people grew smaller as they aged because my elderly great aunt was a similar height to me!

Uh oh... Me too

VioletSky Thu 09-Sept-21 17:56:25

Juliet that made me laugh, I think I put them together with the 3 little pigs so all the little piggies wore dungarees and definitely weren't bacon

Polarbear2 Thu 09-Sept-21 18:06:38

If you swallowed bubbly gum it stuck your lungs together. I had one or two panics growing up after accidentally swallowing it.
If the wind changed when you were pulling a face it’d stay like that (your face I mean).
That I was a shoe in to be a member of pans people when I got to 16.

Sweetpeasue Thu 09-Sept-21 18:14:19

Definitely Father Christmas.
That I wouldn't get old!
That Dr's made you better? ?

Sweetpeasue Thu 09-Sept-21 18:20:24

Correction---
That Dr's ALWAYS made you better.

midgey Thu 09-Sept-21 18:22:19

There was a shed on the top of the mountain where the water changed direction.

Sara1954 Thu 09-Sept-21 18:22:22

A neighbor told me that if I swallowed an apple pip, an apple tree would grow in my tummy, spent a lot of time worrying about that one.

VioletSky Thu 09-Sept-21 18:23:05

Sweetpeasue

Correction---
That Dr's ALWAYS made you better.

I can relate <3

Santana Thu 09-Sept-21 18:28:02

That eating my crusts would give me curly hair.

Smileless2012 Thu 09-Sept-21 18:28:13

Father Christmas of course. That my dad was and would always be my hero; wrong I'm afraid and that unlike sticks and stones, words could never hurt me.

Wrong againsad.

Nell8 Thu 09-Sept-21 18:31:36

Living in a farming area I thought turf accountants sold fields

Grandma70s Thu 09-Sept-21 18:34:08

I was amazed when I discovered Enid Blyton was a woman. I’d never heard the name Enid, and I suppose I thought well-known authors must be men. That was only when I was a child, though.

Redhead56 Thu 09-Sept-21 19:38:17

I didn’t eat crusts because I had curly hair.

absent Thu 09-Sept-21 20:48:17

My father and older sister told me all about the film matinées for dogs after the children's films had finished on a Saturday morning. They explained that the chair seats tipped up so that dogs could sit on top and see the screen and that the usherettes came around in the interval with trays of dog biscuits. Of course, the films screened included Lassie and Rin Tin Tin.

I cried my self to sleep when I realised that they were making it all up.