Things I used to believe...

Wibbles

Until I was about 10 - I used to think that honey came from "squeezing" it out of bees...

Are there any similar incorrect beliefs from anyone else, that they would like to admit?

pinklady45

I believed my mum when she said the man in the moon looks after me when I sleep 

Wibbles

I used to believe that there was good in everyone 

Alex_Alumni

I used to believe chimney was spelt and pronounced 'chimley'   

66Mustang

I don't know what we believed would happen, but as a child we used to live by and play out in the park / fields / trees by a train track and when a train came past everyone would shout "off ground" and we couldn't be standing on the ground, and had to find anything like a tree or a chair to get off the ground.

Superbetty

pinklady45 said:

I believed my mum when she said the man in the moon looks after me when I sleep 

That is sooo cute!!!! I believed for long time that babies come out of the tummy:-)Obviously through belly button:-)

emancherry33

2 things I used to believe about the moon when I was a kid was the moon was made of cheese and Allen's lived on the moon. Also believed button moon with Mr and Mrs moon was real.

emancherry33

Also used to believe that at night microscopic men used to clean your eyes and eye lids and by morning they left the little yellow bundles of dust and dirt from your eyes neatly in little piles for me to wipe away when I woke up..

WelshBlue

I used to believe I was invincible ... 

easy

My husband told our daughter, when they sowed the seed for grass they did so in lines going one way and then the other. Hence the effect you get on say a football pitch. She believed this for many years.

Sandy_123

We're bought up believing fairy tales, santa, tooth fairy, Easter bunny. 
Don't sit on a damp concrete step you will get piles.  no scientific evidence  to back that up.
 Yes I googled it.
Don't ware damp clothes you will get TB.....really erm no.

Oh yeah....I was also sent to the shop for elbow Greece, that the shop keeper found funny, telling me he needed to order some in.  Now there is a cleaning product called it.

Binky1234

I used to believe little people lived in the tv.

vikingqueen

        My dad told my daughter a little old lady sat picking the seeds out of strawberries with a needle to make seedless jam   

Wibbles

Sandy_123 said:

We're bought up believing fairy tales, santa, tooth fairy, Easter bunny. 
Don't sit on a damp concrete step you will get piles.  no scientific evidence  to back that up.
 Yes I googled it.
Don't ware damp clothes you will get TB.....really erm no.

Oh yeah....I was also sent to the shop for elbow Greece, that the shop keeper found funny, telling me he needed to order some in.  Now there is a cleaning product called it.

Sky Hooks are another falasy!!
During my apprenticeship I was sent to collect from the stores

Wibbles

I remember being on holiday in Scotland in 1970 and being told by our parents that the surrounding forests were full of wolves with processed peas for eyes - presumably to stop us from wandering off...........

I have always hated processed peas.

JudithL

I believed that I'd be able to whistle when I was a grown up. As a child my Mum and my Grandad could both whistle proper tunes...I couldn't make any sound when I tried, so I assumed it was a grown up thing...It's not!

Wibbles

"union jack" paint is another one !!

Sandy_123

My sisters, who are lovely really, used to tell me that the round holes in the built in wardrobe, in the bedroom was where the bogie man was watching, terrified me that did.

Squeakypips

his

hers

ours

its

are all correct. No apostrophe.

I was very old (well, relatively)  until I believed the last one was right.

I corrected a 40year old teacher who practically wanted to fight about it - she was mortified!

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I also used to think a quantum leap was big. Nope, it's the smallest possible change you can make.

Squeakypips

Purrrrrrr said:

 I know there are some amazing caring individuals

No, no, they only do the "caring " thing to make themselves feel better. A self preservation stategy. IMHO!

JudithL

Does anyone remember the spoof about Italians growing spaghetti? It was on Blue Peter or John Craven’s newsround on 1 April back
in the day.