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.