‘What did you believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?’ – 21 delightfully childish delusions
12.
‘My dad told me the roadworks sign was a man putting up an umbrella, and it was a beware it’s about to rain sign. I live in the Highlands, so to br fair, it was usually spot on.’
–Important_Ad716
13.
‘That exhaust pipes blow the car along, hence why fast cars have multiple exhausts.’
–djthinking
14.
‘My dad was a firefighter, he told me that fire engines put their sirens on because they had fish and chips for tea and wanted to get back to the station before they got cold.
I think he didn’t want me to realise how dangerous the job actually was. I believed him and I miss my dad a lot.’
–idril1
15.
‘I remember when I was little, after a visit from the ice cream van that a local older girl told me she made a frizbee from lolly sticks. This I thought was amazing but clearly she’s a gobshite. Funny.’
–VanishingPint
16.
‘Men drink tea and women drink coffee (because that’s what my parents drank).’
–Indigo-Waterfall
17.
‘If you took drugs, you’d think you were an orange and peel yourself.’
–ButterscotchSure6589
18.
‘I remember when they first opened the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, some kid in my class told me that if you were on the bridge when they tilted it up to let boats under, you’d have to sit down and put on a seat belt. Being a gullible five-year-old, I just believed it without question and was quite disappointed to find it wasn’t like a big theme park ride (in reality they just close the bridge when it tilts).’
–gloomsbury
19.
‘That the moon was the backside of the sun.’
–raekwaan
20.
‘That WWE was real.’
–EuroManson
21.
‘That moleskin trousers were made from the skins of many, many little moles. Thanks Dad.’
–WorldAncient7852
gloomsbury shared an early and understandable disappointment.
I remember when they first opened the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, some kid in my class told me that if you were on the bridge when they tilted it up to let boats under, you’d have to sit down and put on a seat belt. Being a gullible five-year-old, I just believed it without question and was quite disappointed to find it wasn’t like a big theme park ride (in reality they just close the bridge when it tilts).
#SeatbeltsForGatesheadMillenniumBridge
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