Weird Childhood Misconceptions
05-29-2012, 08:55 AM
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When I was six and had just learned to read, I found a box of "sanitary napkins" in my older sister's half of our closet. I thought that if they were "sanitary", then they must be for really special occasions. But then I couldn't understand why my mother was so horrified when I brought out that box of special napkins to put on the table when we were having company for dinner!
05-29-2012, 11:05 AM
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When I was little I thought the sound made by playing a xylophone -those big concert ones - was really someone playing a tune on a lamp-post......why I don't know. And we were always told not to hold a guinea pig up by its tail as its eyes would fall out. (Guinea pigs have no tails but that didn't seem to matter!)
05-29-2012, 12:09 PM
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I remember my brothers taking people on snipe hunts.Never understood what it was untill I was a teenager and my brother took a friend on one out in an orange grove in Clearwater Florida.I can still hear him yelling here snipe,here snipe. He was their all night.Boy was he mad when he found out it wasn't real.Lol
05-29-2012, 12:44 PM
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I remember my brothers taking people on snipe hunts.Never understood what it was untill I was a teenager and my brother took a friend on one out in an orange grove in Clearwater Florida.I can still hear him yelling here snipe,here snipe. He was their all night.Boy was he mad when he found out it wasn't real.Lol
05-29-2012, 01:55 PM
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When I was five, I was in a car accident and needed stitches in my head. They wrapped me in a sheet and covered my face. Because of that childhood song.."they wrap you up in a big white sheet... I was sure they were going to bury me alive. My mother said they could hear me screaming "I'm not dead" all over the hospital.
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