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In order to get me and my older brother to "cover our mouths when we sneezed," our mother told us that "the germs from a sneeze travel all over the world within one second." My brother and I spent the next several days faking sneezes, after which we would hollar out "ONE!" Finally, we were told to knock it off!

Louanne

I once over-heard a conversation between classmates. The sentence was:
"My mom hates bending over."

I took it more as: "My mom never bends over or can't bend over." For years I tried to figure out how his mom would do household chores such as opening the oven to take something out without bending.

It wasn't until as an adult that I thought of the conversation and realized what was really said,
"She hates bending, that doesn't mean she doesn't do it."

The realization hit me when I reallized as an adult that I really can't stand bending over either. This evident by the complaints from my wife as to the length of my toe nails.

Keith

My younger cousin (shes 6) thinks that throwing up is pooping and pooping is throwing up. She's not the brightest crayon in the box.

Anon

up until i think 6th grade, i used to think that every time a person spit, they lost a bunch of tastebuds, and so that is why grown men (who in my small town, i often saw spitting) always ate so much... because they had tasting troubles!

Jilly

when i was in year 6 (i'm british) my teacher told me that someone once thought if you get tired, your heart stops pumping.

Martin

at about 4 i thought my stomach was the large region under my chest, like many kids. However i thought it was so big because it had a ferris wheel in it, with half of egg shells for each food, and when, say broccoli came down my throat, i thought a cup,labeled too, would go up, catch it, then go deposit it at the hole at the bottom, that looked very much like the garbage disposer hole in the sink.

Steph Dudrak(13)

i used to think that if you burped in a bottle, then opened it, you would hear the burp! i tried until i was like 7 years old, when my cousin (the one who convinced me that i could do it)told me he made it up! i was very mad!!!

foxeecheer13

When I was growing up in the Philippines, my brother and sisters would tell me that if I get cut, that rice and carabao would come out. I thought to myself, "Yeah right! Carabao! PLEASE! But what am I gonna do when rice comes out?"

Joe

my brother used to believe he could drown off his spit. when he got too much saliva in his mouth, he would spit down his shirt to avoid certain death....... needless to say, i never borrowed my brother's shirts.

me

This year in school, we were in Applied Biology, im in 10th grade and this freshmen girl is in there (quite the blonde) and and we were talking about sweating and she just blurted out " dont you pee when you sweat??"

everyone laughed at her forever after that.

Katy

i used to think my sister was cold blooded, because she used to say she took cold showers.

anastacia beeverhousen

When I was little, I though there was this little thing inside you that kind of resembled Plankton from Spongbob that had another little thing inside that, and that one had another inside that and so on and when you ate, it would go down your throught and fall into the little thing's mouth and he would swallow it, and then the food would fall into the other little things mouth and so on and so on. Then when the food finally got to the last little person, it got fatter and that was why you grew.

dr hyde

I was told that beer caused beards to grow and believed it up through my teenage years.

Damion

I used to believe that when I blinked I would miss something important so I would try my hardest to never blink, because I didn't want to miss anything.
This stopped after my mother asked me what I was doing and she told me the truth.

shelly

I USED TO BELIEVE THAT IF YOU PICKED DANDEIONS YOU WOULD WET THE BED AND THAT IF YOU SWALLOWED APPLE PIPS AN APPLE TREE WOULD GROW OUT OF YOUR B-M

LORRAINE

i used to believe that my brain was a little person who controlled my thoughts and my every move and slept when i did and while i was at school the person ran on a tredmill so i would know everything

Jacey

I used to think that "Butterfly Kisses" were when you rubbed noses with another person, until my mom told me it's when people 'Kiss' eachother with their eyelashes.

Melissa

i used to think that i was the only person that swallowed my spit

Anon

I thought that if someone jumped over my head, I'd never grow taller then on.

Anon

when i was little, i used to believe that the boy i liked was not really a person.i thought he was not like us, he doesn't pee or sleep...gosh...i was so silly!!!!

adriana