A couple of misconceptions I used to have:

That celery and rhubarb were related because we ate only the stalks and the stalks are stringy.

That when we deposited money in a bank, we would get the very same money back.

Do any of you have any?

The parkway was to park on and the driveway well you know

My boys were confused about the whole fax machine concept - thought Dad would get THE paper we sent a fax on... :)

I would have thought so, too. That's how "snail mail" works.

Before high cholesterol, I thought that steak was the best thing you could eat, not only for your body but your taste buds.... :(

When I was little I thought there were little people in the radio playing the music. I would look in the back to try to see them!

It was a long time before I realized that a heifer had to become a cow by giving birth to a calf before she produced milk.

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Isn't that still true?

I'm still wondering who's looking through that little red/black "eye" to know when you stand up so that they know when to push the flusher. LOL

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ok ... NOW i understand the time honored tradition among mothers of urging the kids to always wear clean undies.

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My mother used to tell me to do that in case I was in an accident and had to go to the hospital. I told her in that case it would be better if I didn't wear any---that way they wouldn't have to cut them off of me. :lol: :lol: :lol:

If one is really messed up, I don't think it would matter what condition one's underwear started out in.

My mother always said that about clean underwear. When I ws a senior in high school she fell on the front steps of the house and was rushed to the hospital - she was out cold. I was in the emergency room with her and when she started to wake up the first thing she asked me was if she had her good underware on.

I thought when I was 13 if I went with a friend to the baptist church they would drowned me because my parents didn't go to church anymore. Why don't kids say anything to parents. Why is there somethings kids don't tell there parents

As a child I thought that if you ate an egg that wasn't cooked hard that a chicken could grow in your stomach. (I had a mean cousin that told me things like that) She also said that sunbeams were Angel slides so that they could save their wings for the trip home. The Angel thing was okay, in fact I told that one to my daughter, but I still won't eat a loose egg to this day.

I remember one time asking my mom why anyone would want to sell their garage. She stopped so I could truly understand the concept. I even bought a stuffed bear.

Awww, what a sweet mom. :D

When I was little, a relative told me that if I ate a watermelon seed ,it would come out my belly button or grow out my ear :thumbdown: After that I wouldn't eat watermelon til I was a teen :roll:

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Or if one swallows a watermelon seed it will grow into a baby.

lol my grandma told me that about every seed... it would grow that plant out of my ears lol... i believed her when i was little lol.... and yes lol im terrible, i tell my kids the same thing. My 8 yr old is waiting for her lemon trees after making lemonade the other day lol

The one my husband and other family members still find funny. The difference between a bull and a steer. I thought bulls had horns and steers didn't (My Uncles polled their steers which I had never been near enough to know).

Man you can tell I come from the city with this one.

Oh yeah, my son thought chicken's laid eggs in the cartons and that they were always clean. I thought he'd never eat another egg when he found out differently.

My granddaughter is 3 this summer, her name is Lily. I showed her some lily buds in the yard a few weeks ago and told her they were almost ready to bloom. She said, "Yeah, they BOOM!" I tried in vain to explain. She'e thinking fireworks. Two days ago she was over and I showed her the blooming lilies. She ran around shouting, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" She didn't want to understand it any other way.

I remember as a child my dad was agonizing about taking a new job. I thought it was because he had to buy it.

I used to think cartoons were people in costumes.

My mom said the same thing....I told her that it wouldn't matter...if I was in an accident that it was gonna scare the s*** out of me anyway!

I did get hit by a car, into the path of an oncoming truck. I was 15. My face was pretty smashed up, broken leg and hip, ribs and shoulder, and my mothers first question: You weren't wearing those yellow undies, were you? The undies in question had WOW embroidered on the rear end. And I still have not let her live this down, 30 years later.
My silly misconception: too much TV will make your eyes square. My neighbour had square glasses, and he would nod wisely when Mum or Dad said this.

My grandma used to tell me that if you ate raw cookie dough, you would get worms. After while, I figured out that she just didn't want me to eat the cookie dough.

OMG you guys are so funny lol Ok, here's a good one. And this one is from my husband, a grown man! I sometimes eat strange "healthy" things, lol, like sprouts, yummy. Hubby has always turned his nose up at healthy stuff. So a few months ago, he got curious, and pulled my sprouts out of the fridge, and he says to me, uhmmm, these are live, right? I say right. He says, that's why they're healthy, right? I say right. Then he looks at me and says, but if they're live, and i eat them, wont they keep growing in my stomache????????? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously! lol lol

I had always thought that everyone always wanted to do their best, lived by the Golden Rule, and all strangers are friends that we never met yet.......

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My mother used to tell us those white specks on your fingernails represented the lies you told. When she suspected us of lying she asked us to hold out our hands.

My heritage is from Italy and I asked my father when we could go visit and he said when they built a bridge. My elem school teacher once asked where in the world we would love to go and I told her we were going to Italy when they built a bridge. She laughed and laughed and when I got home I repeated that story to my father who laughed as well. It wasn't until years later I realized what I had said. :oops:

my kids were honestly upset at me because I took them to a 5&10cent store. They came out and said"mom, nothing in there was 5 or 10 cents.dahh"....

When I was little I deposited my coin collection into the bank thinking it was "safe" there. Of course my collection was gone! (The owner of the bank was a coin collector - I bet he was happy - I had OLD coins in very, very good condition)

I also thought that if someone said "I'll call you for lunch" or something like that, that people actually mean it. I mean it but I've found others don't.

Oh my gosh some of these are so FuNnY! Loved reading them...LOL!
My hubby thought that if you went backwards on a sewing machine it would take the stitches out.

When I was 8, and it was a winter day, I thought if everybody on the planet came outside and exhaled, that it would warm up.

Let's see, of the 3, celery, rhubarb, and money in the bank, I can answer Yes.
I do have celery

Why do we say plan ahead instead of just plan?
We don't plan behind.

When cows laugh too hard does milk come out of their noses?

My DD came crying to me when younger because someone told her that she looked like me. Told her that she did, she got very upset telling me that she didn't look like me because she didn't have "gray" hair.