hobbies

When I was a little boy, I used to believe that when my parents were taking my nose in their hands and put their thumb between their fingers to make me believe they had taken it, it was really my nose. It often made me cry because I was afraid of losing my nose.

Anon

When I was about four, my mom got invited over at my neighbours house for coffee, and I went with her. The neighbour had dozens of spanish dolls on display in her living room. I was fascinated by them and got really excited when my mom told me she collected them as a hobby. I decided to become a collector aswell, and immediately went outside on the street to spot some dolls lying on the ground! After looking very long and hard, I started wondering why I couldn't "collect" a single doll when the neighbour had so many, and figured there must be something wrong with me.

Saara

When I was 5 I used to think the goal in football meant that the ball touched the goalpost. I would play this method for a long time.

Anon

When I was little, I was terrifed of joining the Bluebirds (Camp Fire Girls) or the Brownies; I took the names very literally, and I didn't want to turn into either one!

stormy

when I was little I joined the brownies group and when I got there I looked around and asked the leader were are the brownies she said scattered through out the camp so I went in search of brownies I found about ten girls but no brownies so I went up to the leader and said I mean the chocolate kind she pointed to a tent with a lable that said African american children I was very confused about this until I found out there were no actual edible brownies its just what the camp was called.

Naglie

i believed that the only musical instrument on earth was the piano.hey i was only 6 then!!!

velvetryn

my dad told me that ballet dancers had their toes removed and blocks of wood nailed to the ends of their feet so they could stay upright on the points of their feet

Anon

I just to think that if I was doing keepie uppies (Football thing...soccer that is), a scout will spot me and sign me up as a child sports star. This applied to where ever i was, back garden, park, school!!

Nick

Have you heard of a game called hot potato? it's when you have a ball and you have to pretend it's a hot potato so you have to throw/catch it as quickly as possible. I thought that the ball/potato was red hot and would actually burn me so i got really scared whenever we played this game

mash

Pokemon was my first video Game, so I was into Role Playing Games at an early age. Well once, I was playing a game called "Lunar: Silver Star Story" and one of the weapons was called a Bastard. [I learned later that it's a type of two handed sword.] When I saw it, I flipped out that the game had cursing in it [it was an E-rated game].

Level 1 Infant

I used to think there was a crayon called "window color." Turns out there isn't.

Not the brightest crayon in the box

I was convinced that when someone played a trombone the sliding tube went down their throat.

Mike B.

i used to believe that in order to join a Brownie troop when i was little i was going to have to get a shot. i hated shots.

Anon

I used to play netball in school. One day my friend and I were duscussing why you don't see netball on TV. She told me it was because the ball went so fast the cameras wouldn't be able to keep up with it! Now I know why my dad found this so amusing when I told him!!

Vicky

When I was small I used to believe that ships in bottles were actually built in the bottles with small tools.

The first time I saw how it was actually made I kind of laughed at myself saying "...haha...yeah of course....".

Dani

When I was around the age of 2 I used to follow the repair man in the front yard. I would imitate his tool belt by putting sticks in my diaper walking around wherever he went.

Hool

I used to think that "joy riding" was when you tied a rope to the back of a car and hung on to it wearing roller skates while someone drove it up the motorway. It sounded fun!

Anon

I am flexible and always have been. So when I was younger I would hear my aunt say "I love gymnastics." And she was in like a club. And I though she would say "Nasty's" So I thought that was the actualy word. So I would be flipping and doing backflips (with no experience i might add) And I just loved it. So at 4 or 5th grade I said "Here let me show you guys my nasty's! And everyone looks horrified and ran away. So I ran after them screaming. "Nasty's are fuN! Whats a matter!?"

Cece, 12 yrs now

When I was about 8 I joined the new brownies that had been set up. Me and a few other people were going to be the first people to get enrolled there. I told this to a friend who went to another brownies and had been there for a long time and she said that being enrolled was really scary. For a while after I, for some strange reason, imagined that being enrolled consisted of being rolled up into a rug, and then the BrownOwl shook it so you rolled out. As you rolled a long the floor to the other side of the hall you would shout your brownie promice in fear.
Luckily it was nothing like that.

Bear

My grandpa told my mom and aunt that you could call fish when you were fishing. So they would call fishes all day long while he fished. If they did not catch any fish that day it was there fault.

K