around the house

I used to believe that a community of gnomes lived in our walls, I could even imagine that I would hear them whispering once in a while. I wasn't scared of them, I would talk to this one small hole in the wall and I would even leave food there on little Barbie plates for them to eat. Right.

lala

When i was younger my mother used to tell me not to bother the fire release thingy to our window (when it got pulled it would release the bars on the window in case of a fire) but i thought she meant that if i messed with it a fire would start

AmberinCali

When my mother hung the wash out to dry I would lay under them and try to catch all the dripping water because I thought that it was parts of my clothes falling.

Erin

I used to believe that the devil lived in my heater because the coils inside would turn red when the heat was going. It scared me to death because it was right by my bed.

Kim

When I was little, I was playing around with my mom's phone. She told me that if I pressed a certain button (don't remeber which one), the house would explode. I thought I had pressed the button, so I ran out of the house screaming and crying. I climbed up a tree, because I thought a tree couldn't catch fire.

Carolyn

I used to believe that inside a toaster there was little men cooking your toast, and when the toast pops up, it was the little men getting too hot and jumping up and pushing the toast out of the way

Joanne

when i was about 5 or 6 my mom used to tell me and my tiwn sister that there were men in the walls. and if i didnt behave they whould come out and take me in the back to clean the dishes.

amanda

When I learned about mobile homes, I wanted one so bad! When I was like 6 I decided that the coolest thing ever would be to grow up and live in a mobile home in your parents driveway. Now that's about the worst thing I can imagine!

Anon

I use to believe that when it got dark little boys from my elementary school would try to peek at me from my window. So whenever it was dark, id run into my room, hide under the window and clothes the curtains shut! I was scared they would see me.

Libby

My grandmother always called her fridge the "fridgadair" (the brand), but I always thought she was saying the "fridge-a-there".

jennifer

I was messing around in my mum's room one day, when I found a calculator. I thought it was absolutely incredible, and used it as a makeshift Ouija board for a while. I would ask it something like, "Will I ever get married?" and would just pound the keyboard, until a few numbers showed up, and I would "dechipher" their meaning. It wasn't until like, third grade when I finally figured it out.

Holly

Whan i was like 5 my mom was mad at me for hanging on this metal bar that ran wall to wall above my dresser. She told me that if i hung on it one more time that lava would come out of it and we would all die. I believed her like the idiot i was.

Shane (i was stupid when i was young)

I got very confused by the expression "... rings a bell" when adults were talking and one said "the name John Smith rings a bell" or similar. I thought this mean my parents knew what John Smith's front door bell sounded like!

Jeremy

At my grandma's house there is an old, large photograph framed and hangin on the wall. My causin told me that if I so much as touched the frame, the whole thing would crumble into dust. To this day, I won't touch it!

Darci

i used to believe that,like in the line of
the song"yesterday""all my troubles seemed so far away,now it looks as though they're
here to stay"i thought that your troubles
would stay at your home in physical form.

wil

When my younger sister was learning to talk, she used belive that napkins were called 'damnaps' because my brother or I would forget them so often when we set the table, that my mom would say in exaspiration "you forgot the damn napkins!" She heard "you forgot the damnaps kids!"

Janet

I used to believe that Bad Things would happen if I didn't have one foot off the floor when the automatic screen door closer closed the screen door.

Susan Davis