When I was a kid...

[JayOctavarium]

so much win in this thread

[black_biff_stadler]

3) I thought a commercial was a thick mustachemaybe that was Sonata216 :/

That was mine you goose head!

A) Read the microfont in that post

B) Did I mistake you for someone else?

Ready for the twist?


I am Sonata216

That's what I thought hence the microfonted message

[Jamesman42]

There was a commercial on TV for some Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But this was a special version, because it had lightning patterns on the cereal or something.

So, because I had always wanted electricity manipulation (like from my hands and such) to be my superpower as a kid, I begged and pleaded my parents and grandparents to buy it for me, with an attempted convincing conversation as I explained why I needed the cereal.

When I got it, I was disappoint. Luckily my high school graduation was the next day, so that took my mind off of things.

[Global Laziness]

Luckily my high school graduation was the next day, so that took my mind off of things.

 

[black_biff_stadler]

Luckily my high school graduation was the next day, so that took my mind off of things.

 

Brought a warm chuckle to me.

[VioletS16]

When I was little, I wanted to marry my dad until I was like 5!  

Now I can't stand the man...

[dethklok09]

When I was little, I wanted to marry my dad until I was like 5!  

Now I can't stand the man...

Actually in psychology this is simply explained by a freudian concept known as the electra complex which is very common for people around that age. This electra complex means that the young child will want to marry the dad until around 6. It is believed by some psychologists as to one of the reasons why many girls are attracted to males. God i'm a nerd.

[Dimitrius]

There was a commercial on TV for some Cinnamon Toast Crunch. But this was a special version, because it had lightning patterns on the cereal or something.

So, because I had always wanted electricity manipulation (like from my hands and such) to be my superpower as a kid, I begged and pleaded my parents and grandparents to buy it for me, with an attempted convincing conversation as I explained why I needed the cereal.

When I got it, I was disappoint. Luckily my high school graduation was the next day, so that took my mind off of things.

If this wasn't a joke, I would've recommended you play inFamous.

[Jamesman42]

Haha, I wasn't joking except for the last sentence...that all happened when I was maybe 8 or so?

[Sigz]

It is believed by some psychologists as to one of the reasons why many girls are attracted to males.

wait wat

[Logical Nightmare]

When I was a kid, I was scared of flushing the toilet. I always pulled the handle and then ran out of the room as fast as I could, because I thought that if I didn't, an enormous spider would come down from the roof and hit me in the face. (Don't ask how I came to believe this, I haven't got a clue.)

[YtseBitsySpider]

^^kindred spirits^^

mine was verbal tramma

[Ħ]

-pee fights with my dad to get potty trained
-getting eaten up by my blankie and pretending like I was inside some monster
-putting on a captain underpants play for my parents every night
-thinking that sprinklers were giant worms that came out of the ground in the morning
-POKEMON CARDS

[Volk9]

More of a story this time:

When I was a kid, I was terribly afraid of the dark. When I got too scared in my room, I'd walk over to the other side of the house and sleep with my grandma.

So one night I got scared in my dark room, and started my nightly trek to grandma's room (which of course down a dark hallway). Unfortunately, my mom accidentally set the alarm to motion sensor. So I got halfway through the hall, and this BLARING alarm goes off. I RUN to my grandma's room and crash through her door. She screams (thinking someone broke in), and I scream back (just freakin' scared), we both exchange screams once more, and then I jump in her bed hiding under the covers.

She screams some more thinking a robber has just jumped in her bed.

[ZirconBlue]

I used to think that the receptacle for cigarette butts was an "ass-tray", so was hesitant to use the word.

[CrimsonSunrise]

When I was like...7, I was aware that semen came from your balls.... and I knew that semen went up into a girls veejayjay.... I also knew that there was no fucking way I was sticking my nuts into a tight space to get cracked......YEEEOOOWWW!!!!!

[YtseBitsySpider]

When I was a child I thought that When Dream And Day Unite only had 6 songs because the tape copy I'd been given had been taped over a Prince-Purple Rain tape.


years later I discovered there two other songs.................Im not surprised though..............it was only a matter of time.

[carl320]

When I was a child I thought that When Dream And Day Unite only had 6 songs because the tape copy I'd been given had been taped over a Prince-Purple Rain tape.


years later I discovered there two other songs.................Im not surprised though..............it was only a matter of time.

I remember being freaked out by a record player.  I used to think it was haunted when the stylus would lift off the record and go back to where it rests.  I must've been three at the time.

[Orbert]

I was just the opposite.  My parents had a "nice" turntable that was fully automatic like that, and us kids just had this stupid thing where you had to manually put the tone arm on the record and take it off after.  I thought it was the coolest thing that my parents could just push a button and the machine would take it from there.

[LeeHarveyKennedy]

When I was a kid, I thought you needed an apple-shaped bowl to eat Apple Jacks out of, and if you didn't have one, the police would come by and put you in jail for an improper bowl. I cried the first time my mom bought it for me.

When I was like...7, I was aware that semen came from your balls.... and I knew that semen went up into a girls veejayjay.... I also knew that there was no fucking way I was sticking my nuts into a tight space to get cracked......YEEEOOOWWW!!!!!

I always thought that your balls unraveled like balls of yarn, and these two long tubes would come out of your junk and impregnate the egg directly, like the world's most nightmarish garden hoses. Sex ed came as a relief to me in many ways.

[Global Laziness]

I always thought that your balls unraveled like balls of yarn, and these two long tubes would come out of your junk and impregnate the egg directly, like the world's most nightmarish garden hoses. Sex ed came as a relief to me in many ways.

[JustJen]

I always thought that your balls unraveled like balls of yarn, and these two long tubes would come out of your junk and impregnate the egg directly, like the world's most nightmarish garden hoses. Sex ed came as a relief to me in many ways.

Seriously



Anyhow, I"ll throw some out there:
- I used flush and run as well. I hated anything that made any sort of "loud" noise and the flush sound scared me.

- I used to cry in haunted houses until I was probably 10 years old because I had such a strong startle reflex.

- When I was about 8 years old my best friend and I thought "balls" was slang for boobs, and we referred to our balls on playground one day in front of some boys who laughed at us.

- When I was about 8 years old an older troublemaker girl up the street told me that black boys have white penises, similar to how the palms of their hands and bottom of their feet are white. I never thought to question it until sometime in my late teens when I recall being completely unable to decide whether she had been telling me the truth or not.


- I thought a "blow job" was blowing air on a guy's penis. This belief lasted just long enough to net a "what are you doing?"

[Jamesman42]

- I thought a "blow job" was blowing air on a guy's penis. This belief lasted just long enough to net a "what are you doing?"

So the guy was all like

[Dimitrius]

- I thought a "blow job" was blowing air on a guy's penis. This belief lasted just long enough to net a "what are you doing?"

To be fair, that slang is the complete opposite of what you're suppose to do.

[Global Laziness]

@Jamesman: No kidding...

[JustJen]

- I thought a "blow job" was blowing air on a guy's penis. This belief lasted just long enough to net a "what are you doing?"

To be fair, that slang is the complete opposite of what you're suppose to do.

Yeah, way to fuck a girl up!

[King Postwhore]

When I was younger, I though that it was common for all the pages in smut mags to stick together.

[Orbert]

- I thought a "blow job" was blowing air on a guy's penis. This belief lasted just long enough to net a "what are you doing?"

To be fair, that slang is the complete opposite of what you're suppose to do.

I've always wondered about that, too.  How can "suck" and "blow" actually mean the same thing?  Something "cool" can also be considered "hot".   And honestly, I'm glad that terms like "bad" and "phat" and "stoopid" have gone away for the most part.

[Phantasmatron]

And honestly, I'm glad that terms like "bad" and "phat" and "stoopid" have gone away for the most part.

Yeah, me too.  Those phrases were mad dumb.

[Kura]

When I was a kid.. I didn't know how to pronounce guitar.. so I'd call it a Dick-ar..

[YtseBitsySpider]

I thought you needed a different licence to drive standard compared to automatic. I argued this point until it was finally proven to me that I was enormously incorrect.

[Jamesman42]

Oh, one time some kid convinced me on my 6th birthday that I had another birthday 3 days later.

Another disappointment.

[kári]

I thought you needed a different licence to drive standard compared to automatic. I argued this point until it was finally proven to me that I was enormously incorrect.

Really? You do here. If you do your driver's exam with an automatic you get a big stamp that says AUTOMATISCH on your driver's license, so it's not valid when driving with manual transmission.

[Super Dude]

1. I called the fast food joint "Berber King" until I got in an argument with my best friend at 5 years old because he thought it was BURGER KING or something, pshh...

2. I was one of those who thought that when you turned on a CD or listened to the radio that someone was actually playing it right there, except I thought that instead of the band being inside the disc or car radio, the band would get a telephone call wherever they were that someone was listening to their CD and they would have to play until that person was done listening.

3. For some reason when I was like 6 or 7 I didn't really understand how long a year was, so when the previews for Disney's Hercules said it would be released in 1997 or 1998, I thought I'd be taking my own kids to see it.

4. I thought parents who wanted babies bought them at the hospital.

[kári]

I thought an ATM would just give you the money you needed.