I Used To Believe newsletter: July 2007
Hi,
The prospect of getting old is more alarming than usual this month. You can look forward to rodents nesting in your hair, a set of false buck teeth and finally, exploding - and you won't necessarily qualify for cheap bus tickets.
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Have fun,
Mat.
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I used to believe that firearms meant fire extinguishers - things you use to arm yourself against fires. I couldn't understand why fire extinguishers were illegal in some places.
Vicki J.
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I used to believe that a "senior discount" was for people who named their sons after themselves.
Spencer Tew
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My mother would sometimes leave me in the car while she went into the grocery store or the library. I would sit in the front seat and pretend to be dead, so that no one would kidnap me, or steal the car. It wasn't until I was about 10 that I realized that no one was going to believe my mother was driving around with a corpse in the car.
Charlie
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When I was young, I used to occasionally get paranoid that gravity would suddenly start working in reverse. When I thought about this I would always try and make sure that there was a roof over me, just in case.
Tufty the Squirrel
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I used to believe that humming birds didn't have feet. I felt really sorry for them, because I thought they were doomed to spend their entire lives hovering.
Anon
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My brother used to tell me that when you got very old you didn't die, you just blow up like a bomb! That is why old people moved so slowly, so they wouldn't explode. Every time I went to grandma's house I'd get as faraway from her as I could...
funonthrun
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My dad sold pure-bred dogs. When a buyer came to get a hunting dog, he saw my mixed-breed pet, and really liked her and wanted to buy her, too. My dad told me, "Mary, this guy says he'll give you fifty dollars for your dog.' I said, "Well, okay, but I don't know what a dog would do with money."
Anon
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I used to believe that you needed a prescription to drink Dr. Pepper.
Anon
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I used to believe that "smoking pot" involved melting something in a large pot until it smoked. The "this is your brain on drugs" commercial with the egg frying did not help clear up this confusion.
shelley
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My parents made me believe that if I ate lamb I would get the wool stuck between my teeth. Pretty scary when you still believe this and that is your first meal at your in-laws.
Laurie
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My brother, now 27, asked my mom why Madonna was singing about "living in a cereal bowl." The song was actually "Material Girl".
Karla Wright
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I used to think if you caught a cold during summer, it was called a "hot".
Brandon Campbell
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My sister Rosie used to think that 'letters after your name' meant that the Queen sent you letters. And you had to run away from them.
Katrina
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I didn't know adults had teeth. I thought adults teeth fell out, just like baby teeth, and then they had to get dentures. Both of my parents had dentures. I just thought some adults had really ugly dentures.
Anon
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I used to believe that tangled hair really had rats in it.
Kristy
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I grew up in a rural area and we didn't have any ice cream trucks. I thought they were just something that was made up for TV and movies.
K.
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I used to think my forehead was actually called a three-head.
Fen
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I used to believe that British people were jealous of Americans because only Americans can pronounce the letter "r" correctly.
Ray D. Strawhat
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I used to believe that if you drank too much you would get drunk. I didn't know it had to be alcohol, so I got very worried after my sister drank a lot chocolate milk.
Sophie
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My parents said that I couldn't say "bomb" or "gun" in airports, and I was a good child so I didn't. However, the reason I didn't say them was because I thought that if I said those words, the security cameras would fire lasers at me.
Clueless Traveler
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