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Until the age of 4, I would commonly ask my parents to put the "hands" on the vcr player to pause it. How are you suppposed to know the difference between "pause" and "paws" at that age?!
Angharad
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For some reason I thought the agitator of a washing machine was properly called "a donkey". I developed my own theory to explain this. I thought that in the days before electricity, people would run their washers by having a donkey run 'round the machine in circles and generate power. Then, the agitator in a modern machine was named in honor of the faithful clothes washing donkeys of old.
A child who thought too much
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I used to believe that the decorative flamingos in my garden were real.
William
Im sure you have all been short one sock of a pair when you're done doing your laundry... When I was young I believed that elves took my socks..
Mellisa ButtButt (Soap)
My perents used to have an indoor ficus tree. I belived if I went behind it, I would be transported to another dimension. In this new world there were huge monsters made of mud!
Jessica
When i was little i swapped bedrooms with my older brother to scare me he told me that men in kilts danced around the room at night when he was in his bed so i believed him so i wouldnt sleep in my own room id sleep with my mum and for years i despretly wanted my old room back.
Jilly
When i was little (about 4)my dad got sick of me using a nightlight do he said next time i would use it it would blow up the sad thing was i was afrad of the light till i was about 10
When i was little, i used to think there was a little man in the refridgerator that would turn the light on and off for you. I would open and close it real fast to try to see him, but i never did. lol
leah
I used to believe that animals could pop out of my walls and would eat me so I went in the hallway and slept on the floor or I would go in the kitchen and climb out the window
Lilomonkeylaura
When I was about nine, my cousin told me that when a smoke detector blinks red, it means there is a fire. I went and asked my dad if it was true and he told me it just meant the detector is working. However I still can't look at a smoke detector. If I do, and it blinks red, I freak out still
Erin
Well, one time I had a nightmare while I was sitting at a desk, when I looked into the garbage can it swallowed me whole. So a few weeks after I would try my hardest not to come within two feet of a garbage can and always tried to toss things into it, when I missed I either left it on the floor or picked it up, threw it in and ran into the other room..
Bunny
when i was about 6, and my dads boss would call our house my dad would turn the television down i thought he was trying to make the living room sound bigger, to impress his boss.
lynda b , northants
when i was 5 at my house to start a fire all you have to do was stick a key thing in the igniter and the fire would start. Well that year we went camping in the woods(i brought the key with us) and when it got time to start the fire i asked my dad, "dad where do you put the key." and held it up to him!!
rAcHeL
i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
tamara
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when I was like 4 or so I used to believe that if I put my dirty underwear back in my drawer it would be clean the next time I took it out.
cindy lu
i used to believe if you stuck a crystal ball in a frreezer then wished for a sundae it would be there the next morning in place of the crystal
(note my mom used to have a ball made out of glass with gell in it but it looked crystal to me back then!)
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I had four strange beliefs.
1. I believed that Tyrannosaurus Rex lived in my mom's bathroom's linen closet. He would come out to eat me if I ever said his name. If I ever had to talk about him, therefore, I had to whisper either 'tyrannosaurus' and say 'rex' normally or say 'tyrannosaurus' normally and whisper 'rex'. That way, he would not know I was talking about him, and I would be safe.
2. I believed that three rhinos marched around my bed in continuous circles at night and would pierce me to death with their horns if I moved. If I remained still under the sheets, I was safe.
3. The Kermit with the axe entry on this site fascinated me since I also had a belief involving a violent Sesame Street muppet. I believed that Ernie lived under my pillow and if I peeked under my pillow to see him, he would grab me by the neck and strangle me to death. It was an especially odd belief since he was one of my favorite characters on the show...
4. Finally, I believed that Bill Cosby lived in my bedroom wall. I would talk to him and he would not answer but I knew he was listening. That only lasted a couple of days because my parents found me leaning against my wall talking to him and told me that he did not need to rent space in our walls because he had a nice house in California, a state on the other side of the country.
Anne
I used to be very afriad of our front door. i thought it looked like a face i guess, because the windows looked like eyes and a nose or something. i would cry or be soooo scared when i walked by, usually when it was darker. but was ok after because my mom made this big red smiling mouth out of construction paper and put it beneath the windows on the door to make it a smiling face. she then called the door "Doris the Door" to make me feel better. i don't know how but it worked!!!
jessika
i used to belive that when you moved in to a new house the people who used to live there moved into your house.
JacanDragon
when i was 15 we always had a mailbox on the side of my house and we would reach out the door to get the mail. but when a nehighbor down the street tried to sick their dog on the mail man they made us put mailboxes at the end of our property. one day my mom told me to go get the mail and i looked out the window and said "the flags not up!" she looked at me in disbelief and busted out luaghing, i had no idea why. later after they told me that the flag was not up to alert to that the mail was their but to tell the mailman that there was mail going out. im still tuanted about it to this day especialy since i was so old and all my friends joke around an tell me to go get the mail and then say o wait the flags not up! haha
Lynn
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