I thought the ATM was free money. I remember telling my Dad to stop going to work everyday and just use the ATM.

Hahaha! The cops just sit there waiting for coins to come through!

I was very unhappy when I found out the school year was longer then summer vacation. I did not care for school. It interfered with my plans.

I was often told if I made an ugly face it might freeze that way.

I believed life would be perfect once I got school over with and was free. I always felt like school was more of a a confinement/torture than an opportunity to learn.... probably why I home educated my own three children.

I believed that everything adults said was true. (HA!) The day the neighbor kid told me there was no Santa, the bottom fell out of my world! Took me a long time to get over that. Hence, we always told our kids that Santa was just pretend.

I was pretty surprised when I saw a nun in a nightgown.

I was most disappointed when I wen to see a spring producing water in some rocks. It wasn't at all coil shaped.

What a good grandma you are! That was very kind of you; some of the stories here told to kids were kind of cruel :shock:

TV was just coming out when I was little. I felt really bad for years that our family was nothing like the TV familes.

Did the principal of your elementary school have a spanking machine in his/her closet? We were absolutely certain that ours did! It was rumored to be some sort of rotary contraption with leather straps on it.

I did not think clergy or teachers smoked! I was so disillusioned to find out that some did!

No smoking nurses wither, bearisgray.

I grew up kinda on a farm and dad was a mechanic. I thought everyone knew how to take care of their own cars and repair garages were only for rich folk.

I thought everyone knew how to make hamburger gravy!

I did not know that automatic washing machines had been around for as long as they had.

When I was young I thought my Uncle Curtis drove "Insect" Caterpillars on the back of his 18 wheeler. Then he went to Paris, I could not figure out how he drove his tractor trailer across the Atlantic, it was Paris, Texas. Boy was I mad when I finally figured it all out.

This was when I was an adult - DH called me - and told me he was in Ontario - I was wondering what was he doing in Canada? It was Ontario, California.

Oh, my gosh, Bear, thanks! I got curious and went looking for dates -- the first electric washing machine came out before my grandmother was born! Only for rich people, though. My mother (94 last Saturday) clearly remembers her mother boiling clothes on the stove, circa 1927.

That was "The Creaking Door." :)

I did not realize that lab tests (for medical reasons) had to be ordered specifically - that if one had "lab work" done - "everything" was tested for.

It's been so-o-o long since I was a kid, I only remember one thing... I thought that it was always dark when my mother and father were young. I must have heard about the "dark ages."

My DD had the craziest one... She thought the shepherds in the Bible were watching their "Clocks" by night because they didn't have wrist watches!

That is a hoot!

My dad told me after I had played "I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died" for the umpteenth time on the record player, that the singer was probably tired of singing it. I believed him :o)

I remember asking the nun who taught us in grade one if she had any ears. Her habit covered them so it was a big mystery.

It’s what you know not who you know.....false

My little sister thought that white milk came from white cows, and chocolate milk came from brown cows. :D

When we were kids my Mom's many uncles owned a grocery store. One uncle was the cashier and he always had a cup of caramel colored beverage that we couldn't figure out. It was coffee but didn't look like what our parents drank!!! It had a lot of milk in it. Dumb kids :)

I thought women drank hot coffee and men and children drank hot tea...

Rob

That my cousin's husband's name was Thatdam Clark. I was a teenager before I realized his first name was Clark! You can figure out the rest. 🤣

I couldn't figure out why the Masoni Comb was so huge for a salon.



Masonic home

A daddy experience. I was called to get my son at grade school. He had been stuck with a pencil and was pretty pale. No bleeding or anything. As we left the building I started peppering him with questions. Does it hurt really badly? Was there a lot of blood? Did you throw up? No to all the above. Then I asked, "What is bothering you so much." "Daddy, will I die of lead poisoning?" No wonder he was shook. A short explanation of graphite and lead and he was all smiles.

My parents taught me to save for a later date. I thought that if I put money in a retirement account every payday I would have an easy life in retirement; it did not work out that way.

When I was in 1st or 2nd grade, I swallowed a penny. I thought I was going to die and I was too embarrassed to tell anyone. I just followed my mother around all day in hopes that she'd be close when I died. I am a little old lady now. It didn't kill me yet! :)

Do you remember it coming out? I've always wondered if coins can clog the plumbing.

My parents, my Gram often told us that:

Swallowing chewing gum would plug you up.

Eating or drinking the following would put hair on your chest:

Hot peppers
Whiskey or any hard liquor
Sauerkraut
Dill Pickles
Espresso
Horseradish

Eating bologna sandwiches while pregnant caused birth defects. Gram said this after I told he my oldest son was legally blind in his left eye due to being born with no Macular in that eye.

Drinking anything containing caffeine caused low birth weight. Two of my children were 10 lbs when they were born.

The Boogey man lived across the street. An elderly man owned the field across from our house, he would yell at us if he caught us playing there.

When I was in kindergarten we had to recite our address. I thought I could write it on my hand and just read it. I didn't know how to read or write at that time. Just followed what I heard the older kids talked about doing.