excursions

My daughter is 6 and asked me recently why I go into the tanning bed that stands up. She said the stand up ones are only for boys and the lay down ones for girls. Since boys stand up when they pee.

Kat

when we would pass by "the crying lady"(a statue of a woman crying for veterans) i thought that she had been real and after becoming so upset over so many deaths she got frozen.i would always pray that she would come un-frozen.

laurarey

I used to think I was going to fall through the ice and drown when I was ice skating and heard the ice cracking. I found out 35 years later that the ice skating area was just about a 5" depression on a park lawn that was flooded for skating during the winter.

Akron

Until I was about 13 or so, my Dad had me convinced that he could magically sniff out McDonald's restaurants. He said their fries had a special smell that made it easy.

Athazagoraphobia

In certain waterparks, they'll be a "lazy river", which is basically a slow-flowing "river" which flows around or through the park. It's about four feet deep and very popular with the elderly, and parents with young children. Well, when I was about four years old, my cousin (five at the time) told me that the grates at the bottom held sharks that fed on toes. Ever since then, i've always lifted my feet above the grates.

Miss Kangaroo, 15

When my siblings and I were kids [a good thirty years ago], our parents would take occasional weekend trips with their bowling league to Las Vegas. They told us that Las Vegas is in Nevada. Well, just one block east of us, there was a street called... Guess what? NEVADA. We used to wander up and down that street looking for Las Vegas and our parents.

Anon

As a kid, I was scared to death of turnstiles, thinking they were put there just to scare and endanger people. I was scared to death that they could trap me or impale me, etc.

Darlene

When I was about 3 or 4 my parents & I would often drive from Guelph to Toronto to visit my Grandmother. The trip home always felt longer...especially late in the evening. In reponse to my constant inquiry "are we there yet?", my mother would say "yes, I can see the Guelph lights now". I remember spending trip after trip trying to decipher the "Guelph" lights from the "Toronto" lights...how could she tell the difference??? I remember coming to the conclusion that "Toronto" lights were yellow (many of the city's highway ramp lights are) and that Guelph lights were white.

Shannon

My four-year old believed that my daughter and I stood outside his school in the spot we dropped him off and came to get him the entire time he was in his kindergarten-one. One day when he noticed something new in the house, he asked from where it came. I told him that I had bought it while walking home after dropping him off. He was devastated to discover that I actually walked home, stayed there for a while, and then returned to the school

Grandma Bear

I used to believe that if i dug a hole under my fence in my back garden it would lead me to Narnia.

Anon

Every time me & my mom drove by the convention center, steam from the heaters were coming out of it. I used to think when I was 8 yrs old that it was a chocolate pudding factory!

Nadia

When I was a kid, about 5 years old, my dad and older brother thought it was funny to tell me that oil pumpers (the kind you see in Texas and Oklahoma) were actually monsters that pumped oil from the ground. Because they make this funny "heart beat" noise when they pump, I was deathly afraid of them, and would hide whenever we drove by.

My mom got mad at my dad about it, and so my dad and my brother thought they could cure me by driving right up next to one and parking there for a bit. They were rolling laughing at how much I was screaming and crying, which made me so mad that I forgot about the pumper! To this day, it still freaks me out to hear that sound (or the sound of a heart-beat).

Ben

When I was a kid, my, my mom and dad went to this bar called the Island. One day my dad told me that he was going to go to the "Island" tonight. I got in my bathing suit. I packed a towel, things to make a sandcastle, and clothes. I thought we were going on a trip to Hawaii!!

Anon

I went on a camping trip with the Girl Scouts and we are in Germany so there are wild boars. And someone told my that they come at night and eat people. That night i was afraid to go to sleep the 3 days i was there.

Badger, age 13

i used to think that u know those doors that open automatically (sp?) well i used to think that they only opened if i blew them a kiss like i was there queen and that they where magic doors

whitney

I thought "circ de solei" was "Circus Olay"

Anon

THE SAND IS DANGEROUS :

When I was five years.I went to the beach, and I remember that I didn't want to go on the sand because I believed that the sand would eat me when I was walking on it because when you walk on the sand your feet disapear under it. So for walk in I placed my beach towel on the sand and walk on it, and repeat the operation to move. I admit, that it was very ridiculous and slow but it's the only solution that I found when I was child. Now I laught about that

IN FRANCE

That waterslides were filled to the top with water, so that if you got stuck or didn't go down fast enough, you'd drown. (And I still have those damn "stuck in a waterslide" nightmares)

Nicole

I was always wary of lifts/elevators as a kid, as I believed that if you went down below the basement level, they would take you straight....to....hell!!

kizzy

When my grandmother was 8 or 9 she used to believe that fish lived in one of the houses she passed everyday.

Alex