going shopping

When I was younger me and my mother used to go shopping a lot. She tells me that I used to talk to the manequins believing that even though they didn't move that they were still looking at me. I used to have full blown conversations with them.

ELM New Jersey

When i was younger i thought that when you go to the grocery store, you couldn't go down an isle that somebody was already in. I thought this because whenever my mom and i went shopping, we would start walking down an isle and then we would turn around right away and go to the next isle. (we turned around because the item she wanted wasn't down that isle) I realized that you could go down an isle that somebody was in when i was about 9 or 10.

Tera

I use to buy a lot of used cd's at a store where they had a large selection of cd's with the initials "VS" on them. I thought that "VS" was a person who had sold back his old cd's. I can remember thinking that i would like to meet the guy who is selling back hundreds of cd's. As it turned out, "VS" stood for "very scratched". Doh!

pepe

I used to think that manniquins were real people posing.

Amber

When I was little I used to see the commercials for furniture where it said so much to pay a month to pay a piece of furniture off over a few months instead of one large lump sum... I thought you had to pay your whole life as long as you owned the piece of furniture, every month.

yeah...

i used to think that if you don't step off the escalator when toy get to the top that you would get sucked down underground and your clothes would be left behind and that for the rest of your life you would live in an underground nudist colony!

Anon

I used to believe that when there was a meir that reflected the meats in the grocery store that the reflection was a whole nother store.

Erin M.

When I was a kid and you used to see posters in empty shop windows saying "Bill Posters will be Prosecuted" I thought Bill Poster was a person and must of been really naughty to warrant so many notices put up about him!!

Fairy Snuff!

I used to believe the abbreviation lb. stood for a unit of measurement called an "ilible". So, I'd be at the grocery store with my mom thinking we were getting 2 "ilibles" of something.

Anon

When my sister and I were little, our dad told us that the men working at this one store we went to, liked little girls and would steal us and take us away to their country to be their brides. We got so scared that one day when we went to the bathroom there, we would not come out until our dad came in to get us and carry us out of the store.

Anon

I Used to Believe that when you wear new shoes, the people would laugh at you and try to trip you, so thats why when I was younger, i never wanted new shoes!!

NEWShooz

My sister led me to believe that if you entered the store "Lechmere", a bunch of leaches would attack you and you would merely get away

Anon

I used to think the store WHSmiths (pronounced double u H Smiths) was called Wuh-smiths. I always wondered where my parents meant when they were talking about going to "double u H Smiths".

Jesi

Once, I was in the car, and my brother and my Dad were talking. We went past a shoprite, and my brother asked "Why not?". For a little bit, I thought Shoprite was called "Why not?".

Anon

Hate to disagree with Anon, but lbs stood for libs or libbies. I was never too sure which. I knew there were pounds, but you didn't use those in stores. Just when you weighed people.

Rick

There is a department store in Edinburgh built on a hill with exits at the front and back, and you had to go up stairs to reach the back exit. However, they were labelled the "Princes Street level" and "Rose Street level" exits, and I used to look up or down whenever we left the store and wonder where the other level was, because I could never see it...

R

As a 7 year old, out shopping with my parents, my two elder brothers told me about this place they called children's world. they told me that it was a place where they punished children like myself , locking them in for life where they could be kept away from everybody, especially other children. As you will have guessed,but as i didn't realise at the time and could only see the place from outside, children's world was actually a kids' entertainment store and there were giant
slides on display that could be used.my brothers said this was a trick so that i could be locked in as soon as i got in, and that like it or not, mum was going in there to look next and i had to go in with her, and i wasn't coming out.

gullable girl

When I was younger I used to beleive the word 'pharmacy' was pronounced 'pyrima-cy'.

Anon

I used to believe that if I went on the escalators I would get sucked into the vents at the bottom. So I had to be carried on them or would find a way to avoid them all together and walk down the stairs.

Esky

when i was a kid i useto think if you didn't jump at the end of an exculator you'd get sucked in

Anon