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

...that Santa Claus was real.

...that the furnace in the basement was a big, scary monster that would one day come alive and eat me.

...that the good guys always win.

...that Elvis was "shocking" but I didn't understand why. :laughing:

...that Ed Sullivan had the coolest job.

...that a bicycle was the end-all in transportation.

...that there was something special about lights.

...that the Christmas season was magical.

BTW, I still believe the last two...

Next?

...that the dark hurt my eyes.

...that my Mom was being completely unreasonable by telling me to sit down in the back seat of the car. (There were no seat belts, much less car seats.)

...that Santa Claus was not only real, but a little scary when he actually came to my house during the Christmas Eve party.

...that people were generally good.

I still believe the last one, although it's harder than it used to be.

...that this universe we live in is only part of an infinite number of universes, nested into each other. We're probably the atoms of an infinitely larger "universe" (and the same thing on the small side of things)

Funny thing GreenLED. We are made to believe that nothing else in this world is infinite.

Yet we are supposed to believe Space is.

Kinda crazy....

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

drizzle said:

...that Santa Claus was not only real, but a little scary when he actually came to my house during the Christmas Eve party.

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That happened to me also! "He" showed up one evening in our living room and I was soooo astonished and a little scared. Here was the man himself, the world famous Santa, right here in our living room! I was so freaked out that I hid behind a chair!
:laughing:

That teenagers were giants and grown ups were bigger giants.

That doing good felt good and being mean felt mean.

Pretty lights were good. No lights was unhappy.

That a Sears spiderbike with gold frame, flared chrome fenders, leopard banana seat and three speeds on the throttle grip was the best thing ever.

That the universe cannot be finite because that would imply there was a wall and something must be on the other side of the wall.

A tree in the house was good. A house in a tree was better.

That flight was possible with a slightly angled wing (It is, really ineffective tho)
Stuff in the darkness would come out and eat me unless I had a really bright light or adults with me
Racism toward asians was normal and being beat up in the neighborhood by the kids, as it was considered "great" treatment because they would usually say they'd "throw you in a pool and keep you tied there with a rope forever/etc"... (Belived a lot of stuff back then)

PlayboyJoeShmoe said:

Funny thing GreenLED. We are made to believe that nothing else in this world is infinite.

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You forget stupidity.. every day I have proof demonstrated to me!

I too thought the commode would not flush during a power failure, and that a spider bike with a three-speed shifter on the frame between the seat and handlebars was "the bomb".

That grownups knew better and would take care of me. And what Icebreak said .

Um, fellas.. My toilet won't flush unless I have hydro..
Or, it will flush, just won't refill..
Either way, no power, no toilet..

Speaking of toilets; when I was little, I especially disliked flushometer or pressure assist type toilets. They were extreamly loud and the noise they made always startled me and made me think they would suck me down as well. I always covered my ears when I flushed.

I used to think any gas burning appliance (normally the stove) always had fire stored inside them. Same thing with lighters.

Didn't really know how an elevator work, I just thought they magically take you to another room in the building. (That was before I rode in a glass elevator)

The brighter you flashlight was, the better

M@glite was top of the line. (I was given a 2AA mini m@g by an uncle and it quickly become my favorite light as I could focus it and use it in candle mode by unscrewing the head completely.) Sadly, I lost that light a year later.

After falling down some stairs (half a flight) at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, I become afraid of heights and had thoughts that I would fall off anything; even if it had glass walls. (refer to the elevator one)

that if we didn't brush our teeth before going to sleep, spiders would come and pee in our mouths.

^

That reminds me of what my grandmother told me; only mine was "If you don't cover yourself completely with a blanket while sleeping, you'll get bitten by spiders."

I wish I could remember. :green:

Larry

eebowler said:

that if we didn't brush our teeth before going to sleep, spiders would come and pee in our mouths.

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LOL.

....... that if we played with fire, we would **** ourselves at night.



....... that Jesse was sent off to the Johnson's farm in Connecticut instead of actually being put to sleep for rabies.

That when trying to envision how TV's worked, that they had film inside, and the "big" VHF channel's reels changed when you turned the knob. (Ka-chunk, Ka-chunk, Ka-chunk. And that UHF "filmstrips" were the little ones like the showed us at pre-school. (click, click, click, click..) I just couldn't figure out how the radio signals (I knew that much) could be turned into film. (I was four)

That when they filmed the AT-AT's on the planet Hoth in "The Empire Strikes Back" might have been very well trained (And exceptionaly skinny) dogs wearing the models as suits. (I had just turned seven, and had no clue about stop-motion...)

I couldn't understand why fire burnt people. I thought that when you moved through the flames fast enough, when you move from one flame to another (or from one part to another), the new part wouldn't have time to burn you since you didn't stay there long enough...

That there were "things" in the dark in my bedroom - I remember actually seeing them - but that they couldn't get me if I was under the blanket.

Later I discovered that they couldn't hurt me even if I wasn't under the blanket, although I could still see them.

Then I couldn't see them anymore.


Miss them, sometimes...