Childhood Innocents

[Steve B]

At work today and bored in the office, I asked a question to my colleagues 'As a child, what did you believe was true?'

For example..
I remembered my Aunt saying that the black bits on crisps and chips were dead flies. And still to this day I have to remove these bits!


Here are some of the answers from some of the people at work

As a boy Duncan believed that Twiglets were deep fried stick insects.

As a young girl Sally believed that rain was god having a wee.

Steve believed that he would always be a child.



I bet you lot have some good ones.

[Scunner]

I believed my mum when she told me that if you swallowed chewing gum it stuck to the inside of your stomach forever []

[Gorgeous_bird]

Eating apple pips meant that apples would grow in your tummy

Thunder was god moving his furniture

If you were pulling a face when the wind blew it would stay in the same position forever (now that is rediculous)

[Steve B]

Blimey! I remember that line being said to me too... not from your Mum though.

[heather07]

I was around ten when I went on a trip to Findhorn with my three cousins.

They told me the lumps of concrete on the beach were the chimneys of buried houses.
Years later I was talking to some people at work and one said she was going to Findhorn so I "intelligently" told her about the buried houses.
Talking to Gus later that night and when he stopped laughing told me
that the stones were to stop tanks coming on the beach during the war

Ever since people have wound me up and let me go[!]

[Scunner]

I also thought that when the clocks go back, and you get an extra hour in bed, that you got an extra hour in bed every night till they went forward again.

As Del said to Uncle Albert "So you were a bit of a dipstick then as well"

[carlan]

When I was a kid, I used to think the people on TV could see you too! I know!![]

[lynne]

My mum told me that if I wrote on my arm with a biro I would get blood poisoning and die!

[pookie]

That if you picked Dandelions you would wet the bed,
That if you didn't wash behind your ears, potatoes would grow and
if you trod on the cracks of the pavement and bear would eat you !!

[mike A]

When I reached sixteen My mum told me the Tooth Fairy had died.

She also told me that Santa wasn't real, but I don't believe her.