Weird Childhood Misconceptions
06-02-2012, 10:24 PM
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This one wasn't mine but a childhood friend of DD. He was part Native American & evidently he'd seen on TV or movies or someplace that back in the day, they'd put their ear to the ground & hear trains or the Cavalry or whatever coming. So he thought if he put his ear on the street he could hear his dad's car coming home from work. It was too cute!
06-03-2012, 04:11 PM
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When we were just little kids my father told us that if we stepped on a black bird we would find a walnut inside. The 4 of us kids spent HOURS trying to step on blackbirds.
We were also told that dragon fly's could sew your ears up. We always covered our ears when we saw one.
We were also told that dragon fly's could sew your ears up. We always covered our ears when we saw one.
06-03-2012, 07:31 PM
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I thought he was a sailor because of the way the accordian straps crossed his shoulders, in my childhood mind like the top of a sailor's suit. Years later, when I was a teenager, I met him and told him the story.
06-03-2012, 07:53 PM
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I remember watching "I Love Lucy" and I couldn't understand how they got Little Ricky because they slept in separate beds! I asked my mom and she just said " They push the beds together when they aren't on TV"!
06-04-2012, 05:52 AM
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When I was little I was obsessed with animals/pets (still am
). Sometimes when we would be out together (I would have been about 4). My father would say, "Stand still and wait here, I am going to see a man about a dog". Each time I would be disappointed when he would appear without the dog. Took me at least 'til I was 6 to work out he was just going off to use the toilet......
). Sometimes when we would be out together (I would have been about 4). My father would say, "Stand still and wait here, I am going to see a man about a dog". Each time I would be disappointed when he would appear without the dog. Took me at least 'til I was 6 to work out he was just going off to use the toilet......
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