When I was a child I used to think...

[twentysixtwo]

...that the garbageman only worked one day a week.

...earwigs would crawl in your ear if they had a chance.

...worms would multiply if you cut them into little bits.

...limes were unripe lemons.

...that Skylab looked like the space station in "2001"

...aliens in tiny spaceships lived in "The Wash" (LA River)

 

[PhotonWrangler]

...that the garbageman only worked one day a week.

Hmm, now that I think about it, you're right! I never saw him more than once a week. :laughing:

 

[Banshee]

lol reminds me of another one. That if you swallowed seeds (orange, cucumber etc,) they would start growing in your stomach. It was actually a fear back then.

Watermelon Seeds ..
Same here..then Dad pointed to the veins in my arms and said "see...they are growing all ready !"

Freaked me right the hell out!

 

[h_nu]

That the worst insult in the world was "meany".

That only bad kids told lies, adults never did.

That adults outgrew an appreciation for things that are cool. I know better now.

 

[eebowler]

:bump:

 

[DM51]

Don't forget to turn the power off at the wall when you take a plug out, otherwise the electricity will leak out of the holes and spread all over the floor. This is very expensive and a waste of electricity. It gets on your feet and spreads up through your body, which is why you sometimes get an electric shock if you touch a door-handle.

 

[Illum]

.....the toilet wouldn't flush when the electric was off.

good to know we ll have something else in common

lol reminds me of another one. That if you swallowed seeds (orange, cucumber etc,) they would start growing in your stomach. It was actually a fear back then.

and I remembered me eating alot if watermelon seeds and drank plenty of water just to see what will happen:naughty:

 

[jrmcferren]

Don't forget to turn the power off at the wall when you take a plug out, otherwise the electricity will leak out of the holes and spread all over the floor. This is very expensive and a waste of electricity. It gets on your feet and spreads up through your body, which is why you sometimes get an electric shock if you touch a door-handle.

OT: Why do your outlets have switches anyway. (UK, AU, HK, etc)

I thought that the sun was a large light bulb and the moon was a smaller light bulb.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

I watched the sun setting against a lake one day and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't seeing a lot of steam and bubbles as it sank into the lake! I remember feeling worried that the lake was gonna put it out.
:laughing:

 

[DM51]

I watched the sun setting against a lake one day and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't seeing a lot of steam and bubbles as it sank into the lake! I remember feeling worried that the lake was gonna put it out.
:laughing:

It did. But someone in China set fire to it again the following morning.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

It did. But someone in China set fire to it again the following morning.

Now that's a loooooong match! :laughing:

 

[Big_Ed]

That just about everything in life was in black and white in the past.

 

[MicroE]

...that the radio stations only broadcast live music. They had a huge hallway with dozens of rooms. One band was in each room and played their song when needed.

....I too thought the commode would not flush during a power failure....

Craig---Mine won't! We get water from a well and the pump is electrically powered.

 

[benchmade_boy]

-when i was little i remember thinking that my grandmas boyfreind had a streamlight twin task when it first came out and i was so amazed that the incandecent bulb wouldnt work but the leds would light up. i thought that was so cool.

- when i was little i use to be in a car driving around at night with the windows rolled down and there would be an old building that would have a blue street light in, and i would here locust and i always thought that the aleins were drilling on somone in that biuilding and they were working by the light or the street light in there building.

 

[Ken 222]

....that when I grew up and had children of my own I'd stop on the way home from work and get some ice cream for them every day. I told my Dad too. :laughing:

Ken

 

[PhotonWrangler]

...that the radio stations only broadcast live music. They had a huge hallway with dozens of rooms. One band was in each room and played their song when needed.

I used to think that also! Oh, and there was a whole separate room just for the jingle singers. :huh:

 

[eebowler]

...that americans didn't know what showers were(they had tubs only) and that all fo their houses had basements and chimneys. (Still not too sure about the basement thing. :thinking: )

 

[Burgess]

Hey PhotonWrangler, this is a GREAT thread !

Just stumbled upon it now. Here's one of mine:


For a LONG time, up until my early teens,

I used to think that when you took your camera film to the Drugstore,

that the Pharmacist would develop it, when he wasn't busy with prescriptions.

Seemed to me that it ALL has to do with Chemicals, anyway.

I always wondered, if i asked him really nice, if he would let
me go in the back and WATCH him develop the pictures !

(i already knew, from TV/movies, that the photos were done under a RED safelight)



And also . . . .

While i knew that Still Camera film had to be "developed" first, to get the negatives,

i thought that if someone had an 8mm Movie Camera,
that no developing was needed.

Simply take the roll of film OUT of the camera, and thread it into the projector.

(understand, we never HAD a movie camera, just still cameras)

And for you "kids" out there, this was LONG before the age
of those new-fangled Video Cameras !

And also . . . .

That my Kodak Brownie Fiesta (12 exposures on 127 roll film),
which was my first camera (Christmas 1962)

would take quality photographs which were JUST AS GOOD as any
fancy 35mm camera (and its expensive lens) . . . .

PROVIDED the pictures were taken in bright sunlight.

I thought the ONLY advantage of "expensive" cameras
was the ability to shoot in lower light, and without flash.

My, how un-informed i was, eh ?

BTW, for the past 35 years now, i have been VERY deeply into Photography.

Still marvel at the cluelessness of my youth.

Sadly, i've noticed that many Adults still harbor similar mis-conceptions.

 

[bobisculous]

...that is was pronounced Water-burger, not What-a-burger (southern thing I think

 

[carbine15]

...If you could jump from one piece of furniture to the other without touching the floor you wouldn't get burned by the hot lava.

...The clouds knocked the mountain down one day. (it came back later)