Twitter User Asked, “What Is The Dumbest Thing You Believed As A Child?” And 34 Folks Delivered

My goldfish "lived" for 9 years, I won him at a local fair and he would stay at my grandma's house if we went on holiday. He sometimes looked different after a holiday at Grandma's house 🤣

Pair of mates of mine from school were shoved a family member's sickly fish as a "gift". Immediately realised that the tank was inadequate and vile, reseached proper tanks, bubblers, and feed, got proper advice for caring for it. Fish still alive and thriving nine years later, no bulls*t shenanigans required. Learn how to care for your bloody goldfish, they can easily live 10/15 years.

What a sweet dad.

I believed that I could tie my dog to my wagon and he could pull me anywhere I needed to go. But he didn't like the idea.

I actually had legit a goldfish that lasted a decade somehow. That one got huge.

Don't know about the carpet but the dirt is for sure growing and i swear I'm not feeding it!!!!!

This is adorable.

The Brady Bunch had an astroturf yard, so they did vacuum it.

In the 70's with shag carpet that was very true.

Who watered it? Didn't you ever hear the sprinklers at night or get your socks all wet.

This is so innocent.

That’s so wholesome

I think that is a nice way of parents to teach their kids to respect folks in all professions.

wait - I always aspired to be a mechanical engineer - and I have been one for thirty years . . .

Truth to be told, plenty of children dream about being cashiers.

Omg I thought this too!

That's a classical one

This is funny because I’ve had a female dog and a male cat 😂

i thought the same but for horses and cows

I never believed this one. But as a young child I did however believe that some cats can be purple due to cartoons.

Works every time.

My neighbor had a tank buried in his back yard. It was a gas station tank that had been modified into an underground bomb shelter.

My mom had 9 sisters. When I was 5 … my 9 very pretty aunts all married 9 very handsome men. I was really worried and hysterical at my last aunts wedding that there wouldn't be any handsome men left for me to marry when I grew up.

Not nice. Tell the child the truth.

Grandpa got edumacated in the fine art of black market skills. Worth more than gold.

Universities used to create scientists! Now they create unemployed!

This is deep

And this is why government funding should be based on job placement and salary increase after graduation. No more sending millions to school to use on bloated sports programs.

The liars

AND A JOB WITHOUT STUDENT LOANS

I believed that too!

When we were little (about 4) my twin brother and I walked behind a heavily pregnant lady taunting her with "we know what you did".

my mom told me that and i believe it until i read a book that said otherwise

Or if you bit and swallowed your nails they would stick in your liver

No, that is non-sense! Everybody knows swallowed chewing gum wraps round you heart.

The disappointment must have been huge when you found out