I Used To Believe newsletter: November 2007
Hi,
Teachers are under suspicion again this month, this time for what they aren't able to do: cook or fix their own vehicles. Surely they could just borrow a coffin to get back home?
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Have fun,
Mat.
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My father played a lot of Beatles music for me as a child. Until high school, I thought that the standard color for submarines was yellow, like school buses.
Anon
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When I was about 5 or 6, none of my teeth were wobbly and I wanted money. So when my dog's tooth fell out I decided to trick the tooth fairy by putting my dog's tooth under my pillow. When I woke up, there were a bunch of dog biscuits under my pillow.
Felicity
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I believed that oral contraception meant talking your way out of it.
Stupid
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In Junior's school (6-11 yrs old) we seemed to have loads of fire drills. I used to stand in the cold and quietly seethe at the stupidity of our teachers. I was convinced that one of them had gone into the staff room and burnt a piece of toast which set off the fire alarm. This might have been because this was how our smoke alarm at home always went off. I wondered "how long can it take for someone to wave a newspaper under the fire alarm to shut it up so we could go back inside?"
Jessica
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I used to believe that when people said that they were in their "birthday suit" they were talking about a clown outfit.
Jocelyn
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When I was younger, I believed that because blind people were awake with their eyes closed, they slept with their eyes open.
Marv
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When I was about 9 or 10, I heard about the internet. I thought that when you bought things off the internet, you had a little box attached to your computer with a hole and you'd drop coins in the hole. When you'd put in enough money, they'd send whatever you bought.
Sarah W
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I believed for some time that a store in our town, "Toys Topless", was a convertible car accessories store, as my mom said when I asked (even though it had blacked out windows and creepy guys walking into it).
KPF
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When I was little and I heard a weather report in the winter, I always wondered why they gave two temperatures: one for the "windshield factory" and one for everyone else. I couldn't figure out why it was so much colder where they made windshields. I don't remember how long I thought this before I learned about the wind chill factor.
chilly girl
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In grade two I thought teachers were aliens who crash landed on earth millions of years ago and pretended school was for getting a good education, but actually wanted to kidnap all the smartest kids and force them to be their slaves and fix their space ship.
Anon
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I used to think soap operas were people being spied on. So when my life got pretty dramatic I'd stick on a video to draw the attention away from me... just in case.
Paranoid
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I used to believe that if there were men doing roadworks outside my house, I couldn't go outside or they would put me in the manhole and put the cover back on and leave me there, and that this was something they routinely did.
Alison
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I am terrified of bugs especially roaches. When I was little sometimes I would fall asleep on the couch and wake up in my own bed and when I asked about it my dad, he said the giant sewer roaches came out and moved me so they could watch TV. I had nightmares for years and I never slept on the couch until I was married and had kids of my own.
Anon
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When I was quite young, I believed that your coffin was really a spaceship to take you to heaven.
Sunshine
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If you went to the International Date Line and jumped back and forth across it 2 or 3 times it would affect your age.
Blake
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When I was very young I assumed adults bought money at stores. Since money was the only means which I knew of to make purchases, I deduced they bought money with money at a 1:1 ratio. It made no sense even then but seemed like the only rational possibility.
smith
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I remember wondering what happened to bugs when they died. I was afraid that they went to heaven because I could only imagine how many bugs would have died by the time I got up there. I pictured heaven for years as this big kingdom in the sky absolutely coated in bugs.
Anon
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When I was about 5 or 6, I saw a cartoon where the character used an umbrella as a parachute. My older brother said that it was true because it was on TV. He talked me into jumping off my grandma's bird aviary with the umbrella. I wrecked the umbrella and strained my ankle. My brother told me not to tell because I would get in trouble for hurting the umbrella.
Chik DuBay
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I used to believe that a hamburger was called a "handburger" because you ate it using your hands.
ELEKTRA
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I used to believe pencil shavings were the key to bringing clay creatures to life. My best friend and I made a point to volunteer for the positions in school which emptied the pencil shavings from the sharpener, then secretly stash them away and bring them home to animate a small clay monster we hid in the basement. It never worked out as we planned.
Anon
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