People have been sharing the stupid stuff they totally believed as kids – 21 fabulously crushing confusions and disappointments
12.
‘I had a similar thing about Guy Fawkes, but it wasn’t the word effigy. They would say they would burn a Guy, so I just thought a random bloke was being sacrificed to the the fire. They didn’t do bonfires were I grew up so I didn’t have any first hand experience.’
–klymers
13.
‘My grandad always drank ‘beef tea’ and I thought it was a cup of tea (with milk) with Bovril or Oxo mixed in it, so I always hated the sound of it and would never try it. And I’ve continued to think that until I found out only recently, that it isn’t that at all.’
–NeddTwo
14.
‘Crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing, when my mum said to wait for the green man I’d be on full lookout for a fully painted green man to present himself.’
–Careless_Storage_221
15.
‘I thought ‘Father Christmas’ was Jesus’s dad when I was young. Church school weren’t best pleased with my parents about that.’
–AnxiousTerminator
16.
‘I thought that at Halloween you went door to door, and at each house you demanded a ‘treacle treat’.’
–MiotRoose
17.
‘I thought my Mum’s workplace paid for my days out with my Nan and Great Aunt to Looe, because Mum got ‘a day in lieu’ when she worked on a Bank Holiday.’
–FloofyRaptor
18.
‘I knew a ‘player manager’ in football was someone who was a manager whilst also being a player, so I assumed that a ‘caretaker manager’ was a manager who doubled up as the stadium’s caretaker/janitor.’
–PabloMarmite
19.
‘The only older people I knew were either Cockney or from Essex. I grew up entirely sure the Queen spoke the same way, never questioned it. Heard the Queens Christmas speech for the first time when I was probably 12 and was somehow shocked she is in fact, posh as fuck.’
–grizzlygoose6
20.
‘I thought Turf Accountants bought and sold turf.’
–BuncleCar
21.
‘I thought Iceland (not the country) was a theme park my parents were going to take me to. Imagine my disappointment.’
–AnyOlUsername
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