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“I Grew Up Thinking”: 30 People Share The Random Things They Thought When They Were Growing Up, And Almost Everyone Finds It Relatable
It's the lens of your past experiences through which you understand the world. But when you're just a kid and haven't been around for long enough, or simply lack guidance from adults, you will formulate your own interpretations of how everything works.
But since they're often based on imagination, it's only a matter of time before reality crushes our naive beliefs. And we at Bored Panda decided it would be fun to check out what misconceptions people had when they were little.
Digging around Twitter, we compiled the funniest "I grew up thinking" statements and put them together into this amusing list. So continue scrolling and enjoy!
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#1
Limey Cheesehead 3 years ago
If you grew up in the 60's & 70's quicksand was a real fear. The number of TV shows & films that made you think it was certain death were a tad too numerous.
Ivo H 3 years ago
And not only certain death, but lurking behind every corner! You just stroll casually in the park and BOOM! Quicksand
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Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Me either but I did get stuck in quick mud once. Up to my thighs. Buoyancy didn't let me sink any further
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Robin Canfield 3 years ago
Yes.. i think a lot of 70s/80s after school specials used it as a scary plot point... pretty sure it was in an Indiana Jones movie too
Unknown 3 years ago
I grew up playing pitfall, so I definitely thought it was going to be a problem! Never was until I moved to North Carolina in the usa, and met quicksand for the first time. It's actually pretty terrifying, but since it's been such a lifelong irrational fear, I had a big stick with me and made it out hahaha. This one actually isn't a joke or sarcasm, very real and a very weird situation
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#2
Limey Cheesehead 3 years ago
I was very disappointed years ago when we had mice...and there was no cute hole with a welcome mat out front.
Lauren Copland 3 years ago
if i ever have a mice/ rat infestation in my home. I WILL MAKE THEM ONE OF THESE
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
The mice who sneaked into my pantry just used an existing gap behind the cupboards! Lazy little goobers.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
When I was a kid I lived in a cool little house that was an antique store before I lived there ! Someone had painted little mouse holes with little mice in them! I thought it was the coolest thing ever !
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Probably "no because"? As a reply to another comment. We'll never know which one... (That's what happens when BP just copy/pastes comments from Twitter without editing them in a way that would make sense for us...)
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Mice are one of the few things in life that live up to media-induced expectations.
Sure, we can run from the world, even deny the truths that seem too difficult to accept. But this doesn't get us anywhere. In an earlier Bored Panda interview, social science writer and researcher Jeremy Sherman, Ph.D., MPP, highlighted how human life is uniquely anxious compared to other organisms.
"Just compare the range of worries a human could have compared to any other critter. No contest. To cope, we need denial, escapism, entertainment, but to survive we need all hands on deck in reality too," he explained to us then.
"I'm on a campaign I call 'optimal: see illusion, safe escapism or strategic gullibility', encouraging people to take their denialist flights of fancy but always with a return ticket to reality safe in your heart pocket. It's not how far out you go, but whether you remember to come back. The big difference between a death metal concert and an authoritarian political rally is what happens in the parking lot after. After the metal concert, people return to reality. After the rally, people think they've experienced something more real than reality. That's dangerous."
#3
Monday 3 years ago
Piranha attacks and quicksand were two of my biggest fears
Load More Replies... iblewsheep 3 years ago
no but i was convinced there was an blood thirsty great white shark living in every body of water on earth, including little kiddie pools.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Oh yes, I thought they'd eat you alive if you just jumped into the amazon.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
No but quicksand and the bermuda triangle was a real threat for me as a kid. But Michigan isnt known for quicksand and the bermuda triangle. But did i fear them lol
Pamela Worthington-Smack 3 years ago
I also thought that if I worked hard and played by the rules I would have a high standard of living achieved by participating in a just economy created by the best country in the world.
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
There are no verified reports of piranhas killing a human. They're actually easily frightened by larger creatures.
#4
Nadia Montera 3 years ago
First time I flew to Bahamas, I was terrified and did not understand why the plane will not make a detour. LOL
Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 years ago
I live in Florida, so we know that the BERMUDA IS REAL!
#5
Ki Li 3 years ago
I have avoided going in a shop because I happened to have their brand on lmao Idk why I care.
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Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Hahaha no but I remember walking into Target ( I live half a mile from it) and everything I had on was from target even the purse I bought at goodwill was from target 😂 I try to branch out now
Beck 3 years ago (edited)
I still do this at 43. Bought some shoes a few weeks ago then went into the same store a few days later so the kids could look at shoes and when I saw the shoes like i bought on display, i panicked internally for a second. Then I remembered that if they DID think I stole them where are the shoes I was leaving behind? And for some reason them knowing I did not leave shoes behind so I didn't steal them made me feel better🤣
One study of 2,000 adults across the United States, which was commissioned by global tour operator G Adventures, suggests that the average American spends 12 hours and 56 minutes escaping their reality each week. (That's roughly four years over a lifetime.)
The most popular forms of disconnecting from work, responsibilities, and everything else that drives them crazy came in the form of reading books (1 hour 34 minutes), watching movies (2 hours 37 minutes), and dreaming of vacations (44 minutes).
#6
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
Not illegal, but parents banned it “because everyone will see what we’re doing.”
Elliot Fowler 3 years ago
You shouldn't do it because sometimes the light reflects on the windshield and prevents your parents from seeing the road.
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LakeMonster 3 years ago
It's not illegal but it is hazardous at night. The glare from the interior light on the windows can block your view 100%.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
It IS illegal in places though. I almost got a ticket in Chicago
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Ozzie Ogawa 3 years ago
Used to hate my father for forbiding me turning it on, i found out why when i started driving.
Lee Kerr 3 years ago
I’m in the U.K. and I was told it’s illegal when I was younger; I don’t know if it’s true though as I’m not a driver.
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Pamela Worthington-Smack 3 years ago
In the age of texting while driving, this feels quaint on par with whalebone stays.
#7
Monday 3 years ago (edited)
Puncture the skin with the fangs and suck the blood through the puncture holes the same way we non-fanged people would.
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Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
Sort of like reverse of poison fangs in snakes, yes
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Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
Vampire bats pierce the skin then lap up the blood with their tongues.
Sawdust 3 years ago (edited)
Everyone's reacting like they just learned how silly their beliefs about *vampires* were. :-)
#8
Jack S 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, until I picked up a handful of dogshit and my mum got way angrier than when I picked up a feather (don't ask why I picked up dogshit, I was 3 ... I actually think it's one of my first memories lol).
Gourdeous 3 years ago
My daughter aged 2 handed me a stone she had picked up and asked what type of stone it was. It was one of those white dog poos🤢
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Heather Talma 3 years ago
Feathers are and always have been a cool thing to pick up??? Who raised you??????
#9
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
I didn’t hope that, but that’s cause I didn’t really think it through that much.
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When I was about 11yo I read a book of strange happenings including people spontaneously combusting. Too scared to sleep for a week - I'm now 76 and haven't combusted yet, so I guess it's not all that common.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Hell I'm still scared shitless of that. That creepy
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GoGoPDX 3 years ago (edited)
Well, my husband did catch on fire once and instead of SD&R he started running around trying to rip off his shirt. Out friend tackled him and they managed to get the fire out. He surprisingly only had a couple 1st dagree burns on this neck, and his arm hair was burned off. When we asked why he didn't SD&R, he said it is really hard to stop and think when you are actually on fire. You go straight unto survival mode and react. That does make sense.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Yes I caught on fire and ran too. Your in so much pain. And they told me in the hospital drop and roll don't aways help expecially if there is some kind of fuel on you. You have to pat it out. Plus I would have really had a lot of dirt. And when it first happened I was in a house so......I would of just caught the floor on fire.
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New Everywhere 3 years ago
I was so worried I would forget because you tend to panic when you're on fire
But, again, this can't go on forever. Jeremy Sherman thinks people can make it easier for themselves by focusing on what he calls ironic fallibilism.
"An ironic situation is one where you get the opposite of what you expected: you do the right thing and it comes out wrong or vice versa. An ironic attitude is recognition that despite your best effort, ironic situations are not entirely escapable. There is no sure-fire formula for living. Just when you discover the meaning of life, it changes."
"Ironism is not cynicism. It's the recognition that life is deeply tragic and deeply slapstick. Life is tragicomic," he explained.
#10
Olivier VD 3 years ago
Marcin Woizciwizynksy asks if it's ok to go home now. He's tired of being the South Pole. You could say he doesn't like his Pole position.
2econdSelf 3 years ago
There are; they're symbolic. But for some reason when I was a kid I always pictured them to look like the trademark candy cane style poles at a barbershop. But I guess candy cane, Christmas, Santa, North Pole would be the logical(?) route for a kid's imagination.
#11
Misha Christensen-wildeman 3 years ago
i still believe eating a test grape or 2 is okay how else am i going to know if its good or not lol
Ronda News Channel 3 years ago
I don't really understand what "test grape" is. In my country fruit sellers (usually on the roadside or in small shops) provide test fruits that potential buyers can eat.
Gaya Knust 3 years ago
I've bought grapes without "testing" them twice and sorely regretted cos they were on the sour (acidic maybe?) side. You need to try at least one to know for sure, appearance alone doesn't indicate the taste.
Margaret Rae 3 years ago
Uh my produce clerk will cut open a melon if I wanna sample. What's the problem?
David Michael 3 years ago
It's part of the social contract, you don't buy a pair of shoes without trying them on...
Tracy Wallick 3 years ago
I'm 30 and I still do this; I'm not buying a bunch of grapes if they don't taste good enough to eat more than one
#12
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
100 dollars is a lot if you have no bills to pay. That's like, 172 pounds of bananas.
El Dee 3 years ago
I'm so old I remember when £100 WAS a lot of money. It was about two weeks pay for a good earner back then, s**t, I'm really old lol!
rumade 3 years ago
Working minimum wage now it's still nearly 10% of a month's pay after tax, NI, and pension! I wouldn't say no to £100
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AmAndA_Panda 3 years ago
Funny cause it doesn't seem like much to have but it's still a lot to pay.
iblewsheep 3 years ago
hey $100 dollars is like 8 cases of cheap beer. that coudl last me a few days!
#13
Fricsmom 3 years ago
I use to think this too until hubby and I spent 19 days on a tiny island in Greece. No light pollution I could totally see where they came from.
Robert T 3 years ago
Our ancestors that named them must've been smoking some pretty weird stuff!
Sergio Bicerra 3 years ago
'loook duuude, that looks like a horse with wiiiings... damn i'm trippping baaad, good stuff!'
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Vinay Pai 3 years ago
There's nothing to it, actually. Just some "high" ancestors.
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goldenviper gaming 3 years ago
I am an amateur astronomer. I use the constellations nightly. they look nothing like they are portrayed as
Appalachian Panda 3 years ago
If you go somewhere the skies are really, really dark and see the sky the way our ancestors did, you'll get it. I mean, sure, you have to use a little imagination, but why's that a bad thing?
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Much more likely that they had some characters in mind, and then looked for whichever sets of stars could possibly represent them. So they knew that Orion was up there. So they looked around until they found a set of stars that could represent Orion. Alternatively, these sets of stars were important for keeping track of seasons, so they then gave them names to make them easier to remember. For names, they used existing mythological characters, and then figured out ways to make the shapes fit the character.
"Fallibilism is a concept in philosophy and more than any other notion, fallibilism has given me peace of mind about dealing with reality," Sherman continued.
"I think of the fallibilist mantra as 'no matter how confident I am in a bet, I remain still more confident that it is a bet. Life is iffy guesswork. Yoda is wrong. There's only try. One can make better bets. One can bet with high confidence. One can't escape betting."
#14
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
I've had the magnum bar. A friend bought one like three years ago. I would say there expensive. They do taste good though.......
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Jrog 3 years ago
I do remember when the Magnum entered the market around 1990. People were actually concerned it was "too much", and it was much more expensive than any competition. Our standards back then was the classic "Cornetto", that while being actually just 5 grams lighter looked less chubby and cost about half the Magnum.
JBethFL 3 years ago
I just bought one last weekend.... man.. not as good as I remember. Still tasty though!
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Kate 3 years ago
... no, they're about as much a problem as I imagined. That's why I don't leave my shoes outside.
Just Jeff 3 years ago
Yes, they are very much a problem. Even though I've only seen like 4 my entire life. I am SCARED!
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Paul Pierokowski 3 years ago
No. They ARE a problem. You can literally die from a bite. If you live where they live, please be careful. They ARE a problem. Even with proper medical attention, you could have a severe reaction and lose a limb.
Limey Cheesehead 3 years ago
I grew up thinking that and I don't think I ever saw one in Wisconsin.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Living in Minnesota all my life, no black widow, one very wayward brown recluse(had the little violin mark), and far too many golf ball size wolf spiders
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Coral 3 years ago
They show up in every dark crevice on my property. I don't kill any other type of spider but I will murder the c**p out of a black widow. Especially since my dog ate one and nearly died.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Yeah this the only spider except those other spiders. Brown recluse I will only kill both of those.....and a water spider cause those things we use have all over are house and I use to get bit by them. At least I think that what they where.........😕
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Mz Phit 3 years ago
And Southern Arizona. Our house was infested with black widows when we bought it!
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Yes since my dad got bite and got sick from them twice. Yes I really did. I really thought I'd get bit a least once.
#16
Kaleb Prichard (MiraiKuma) 3 years ago
I could be mistaken about this, but I think the ripping the tag off message is because mattress sales people would find free or cheap mattresses, and resell them as new. This was causing a lot of bed bugs to get around everywhere. Therefor you have the tag. Only the person selling it is not allowed to remove it. You are the customer are.
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Robert Trebor 3 years ago
It's better to cut them off close to the mattress or pillow, as tearing might rip open the seam, and then it would seam you have a bigger problem.
#17
Jrog 3 years ago
TBH, fight against Acid Rain was one of the few successful environmental action taken in modern times. Since the 1970s, new regulations passed worldwide pushed for the widespread introduction of de-sulfurization processes for fuels (especially crude and coal) and technological innovation let to cleaner high-temperature combustion processes. This efforts more than halved the emissions of acidifier agents in the atmosphere. Acid rain impact has been successfully mitigated in America and EU, it is still a problem in mainland China, especially in the east, due to general lack of environmental responsibility, use of cheap dirty fuels and high concentration of industries with old machinery.
François Carré 3 years ago
Today I just read about a report showing that the concentration of toxic artificial molecules released literally everywhere in the atmosphere by the industry during the last decades is such that no rainwater is drinkable anymore.
Load More Replies... Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Yes yes we heard about it in class and was like s**t if that happens you find me in the caves.
Sherman sees ironic fallibilism as the antidote to two unworkable approaches that are often combined:
The first one is fundamentalist hypocrisy, or pretending you have the formula for living though you don't, can't, and shouldn't live by it. And the second one is cynical hypocrisy, or pretending there's no formula so you can do whatever you want.
"[Jerks] (I'm a psychoproctologist) employ both. Everyone should live by their supposed fundamentalist formula that they cynically don't think they have to live by. No deed is too dirty for saints like them."
#18
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
I thought the same thing. Turns out it’s some island where the governer of Florida sent 2 planes of “illegal” migrants.
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2econdSelf 3 years ago
I always thought it was named after Martha Washington. Looks like I was wrong too.
#19
Limey Cheesehead 3 years ago
It's more of an issue when you have your own apple tree. The worms are very real.
Lauren Copland 3 years ago
Did anyone think worms LAID EGGS inside of APPLES... and the FARMERS removed them and sometimes forgot
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I have only one apple on my tree. It has a wormhole in it. My entire crop
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
Just try organic ones directly on the tree. Regular apples have about 23 different treatments before being sold. No worm can survive this.
Vanessa Panerosa 3 years ago
Unfortunately they *are* an actual problem. Not a huge one, but I have had my fair share. . . 🤢🤢🤢
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
We see worms but more in Gauva fruits...which is native to our region.
#20
Boreddd🇺🇦 3 years ago
I legit thought that the bride kissed the groom and boom! She's pregnant! I used to be so stupid💀
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
Not stupid, I think we all believed a version of that at some point 😁
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Amanda Rose 3 years ago
Me. I grew up in Texas though so that pretty much explains why that thought was a common one for everyone.
Helen Waight 3 years ago
When the ‘education’ at school consists of ‘if you have sex before marriage you’ll get aids and die’ it’s distressingly common to have those thoughts.
TopCat 3 years ago
Probably the reverse, 1% waited until marriage. I am one of the 1% by the way :-)
#21
ThatOtherPanda 3 years ago
I mean seriously, let’s replace “rock paper scissors” and flipping a coin with this!
Monday 3 years ago
I dunno man....I have a much better chance of winning a coin flip than a dance battle.
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Florence O'Grady 3 years ago
No. I can square dance (P.E.) and slow dance. Don't ask for anything else.
Black Pearl 3 years ago
I'm glad they aren't because I can't dance at all. I am not nearly coordinated enough for that s**t.
We must constantly work on educating ourselves and seeking knowledge that can provide answers to questions we sometimes can't even articulate. It's one thing to grow up thinking it's illegal to rip off your mattress tag. But it's another to take this notion into adulthood and beyond.
History can be a nice subject to start with, as it shows what happens to those who deny the facts, reminding us about the scientific method and that following the evidence we gather is our best bet to navigate the world.
#22
Deanna Crichley 3 years ago
I did not. Because I once heard a comic say Evian spelled backward is Naive.
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!! I honestly didn’t notice that until just now.
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Robert Johnson 3 years ago
Did you know that when Evian wes being devoloped, they went to a marketing company who told them no one would be that naive to buy water in a bottle when it is free! I bet they are that naive! I bet the would even buy it if you spell naive backwards! And Eviane was born.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
It's pretty damn popular in South Korea. Higher Brothers even have a song where they scream " IM DRINKIN EVIAN WHEN I WAKE UP" as a flex
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
In Switzerland it's everywhere too, since we can drink the tapwater I rarely ever had any tho (I don't know about Korea and water quality).
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Amanda Rose 3 years ago (edited)
This reminds me of a story that my dad likes to tell. When he was in college, he couldn't decide between majoring in geology or marine biology. He asked his advisor for some input and his advisor told him that he should go for the marine biology degree because if times got tough, he could always eat his experiments. My dad became a geologist! 😂
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
It was mine until Tilikum had had enough and killed that Sea World worker.
#24
Florence O'Grady 3 years ago
I always hoped I'd get to go through a tunnel of love and be kissed inside. Never happened.
LittlePiggie 3 years ago
You mean you guys grew up with confidence you'd have a dating life? ☹️
Marissa Taylor 3 years ago (edited)
i wouldn't know.. im 28 and have yet to date *sad single nosies*
#25
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
As a person who passes a family of skunks every day on my way to work, I still think this.
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago (edited)
I live in the country. It was a week ago that my daughter called and asked for my famous skunk away wash recipe to wash dogs, kids, cars. For the record. Pre rinse with 3-1 diluted vinegar. Soak if a direct hit was made. And if possible. Then wash carefully with ultra Dawn dish soap. Repeat. Save the tomatoes. It's the acid you want. The acid breaks the bond of the binder in the spray which I think is a protein. Careful with the vinegar. It can irritate. I use apple cider vinegar. .
Mario Strada 3 years ago
The other night I thought there was an intruder in my yard. I am ex military and I thought I was good at recognizing noises in the darkness. I heard the crickets going silent, leaves rustling, I was 100% convinced someone had broken in the yard to steal my tools, while I was reading my iPad on the deck. I go through a 100 self-defense scenarios including using my iPad as a edged weapon, until a huge skunk just comes out of a nearby bush and stares me down. We looked at each other for half a lifetime. Then Skunk just walked away. Cute as a button, but I was frozen. Once a skunk got trapped in a friend's car and let me tell you...
Daniel Atkins 3 years ago
I work at a camp one summer as a cook after turning the lights out i walked out of the dining to find a skunk within three feet of me. I stood still with a sinking feeling like this isn't going to end well to thankfully have it wander away.
Kathy LaPan-Miller 3 years ago
My dog has been sprayed directly in the mouth three times. You'd think she would have learned after the first...second time.
Brobro McDuderson 3 years ago
This one is in the “forever changes you” if it happens to you category (like a poisonous spider bite, or something).
Sans Serif 3 years ago
True that!! One of the most regrettable events you might encounter - worse than most "fears" offered in this post!
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Mary Ballard-Johansson 3 years ago
My dumb (but very sweet) dog made that a reality TWICE in a month!!
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Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
That is actually the test now here in central Florida. I think it’s ridiculous and in no way prepares kids to deal with the roads around here
Sarah Semsch 3 years ago
Or deal with all the people who don't use their turn signal here. Drives me crazy!
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A.M. Pierre 3 years ago
My driving test actually WAS entirely a cone maze. Most pointless test ever... though it did make it ridiculously hard to parallel park when the "car" cones were too short to see while you're parking.
Bittersweetie 3 years ago
Yep it was a pretty big shock being taken out to traffic and a world-o-curbs.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago
They do that because the examiners are terrified of the people out on the roads.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
For us we have a yard test, which is in an open area and we have to go a three point turn and a reverse park. Once you get past that you have to do a road test which is as it implies.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
My driving test was on a major highway during rush hour. The practice course (parking lot) did not prepare me. But I can parallel park like a champ but I have never lived or been anyhwere to use it lol
#27
Jo Focquet 3 years ago
In my country (belgium) it is in fact illegal to drive without shoes because of safety
Jrog 3 years ago (edited)
That's not true. In most of Europe it is not prohibited to drive barefoot. In Italy it's not illegal since 1993. In France, you can drive barefoot as long as your shoes are not in the driver's footwell. In UK and Switzerland it was never illegal in the first place. In Germany and Austria it is not illegal, but it can be held against you if this creates the conditions for an accident. In Belgium it is illegal to drive with loose fitting shoes, heels or flip-flops, but is legal driving barefoot. Only Spain and Portugal have an explicit interdiction, with a fine of about 200$.
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Jrog 3 years ago
No, it is not! It's a widespread misconception. https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/road-safety/driving-without-shoes-is-it-illegal/
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Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
It was definitely more of a thing in elementary school. We'd watch the news reports and everything. Heck, I didn't even know a whole town took it so seriously until college and I'm very disappointed no one else does!
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
I was an adult when i figured out the six weeks was just six weeks. lol
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Memaw Mitch 3 years ago
I thought they were either regular carrots that they picked too early or another variety of a carrot altogether.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
No because my parents use to buy and grow big carrots. And we ate them too.
Robert Trebor 3 years ago (edited)
They are actually a cute marketing thing to use stunted and deformed carrots (Equal opportunity). Shave them down and round them, and charge a premium.
JoJo Anisko 3 years ago
Never been able to figure out, I know some packages say "baby cut carrots", so obviously they are fake. But are there any real baby carrots being sold?
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
No, but we kids had to eat a lot of carrots to improve our eyesight. Hated the things.
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Nobody 3 years ago (edited)
As a young kid I was always called a little devil so i thought i would burst into flames if it was sprinkled on me
Pieter LeGrande 3 years ago
After a hundred people dip their fingers in it, it's not going to be 100% clean.
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
It’s sweet, at least for Hindus, because it’s coconut water. I didn’t like it tho.
Ronda News Channel 3 years ago
In our culture the water is clear and tasteless because it comes from springs.
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Monday 3 years ago
Mythbusters actually confirmed this one. It is possible for you to get electrocuted while showering in a thunderstorm. It's incredibly unlikely, but not impossible.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
This happened to someone in the town where my grandmother lived while I was growing up. She always told me not to and I didn't believe her. Well it happened across town during a severe thunderstorm while I was visiting when I was 15.
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In a lot of houses, the (electric wire) earth is connected to plumbing, so yes, even unlikely, the risk is there.
LeeAnne B 3 years ago
I won't do it. I won't use the phone if there is lightening either. I don't care if I'm wrong. These are my issues.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
Anything can expire you. One single grain of sand. Highly improbable but never zero lol
#32
Avocado Toast 3 years ago
I used to think that if I said shut up in the song "Shut up and Dance with me" was so bad 🤣🤣 like i was going to get grounded or smth for saying it
Memaw Mitch 3 years ago
In my house it was definitely forbidden to utter those words, might as well have been a curse word.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
I used to think that "hate" was a dirty word. Come to think, in a sense it is.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
I think it’s very rude and I don’t say it to people unless I’m playing around and if someone says it to me in a non joking manner they will get dropped real quick !! Sorry bro !
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Monday 3 years ago
Like when you see those "why women live longer" posts with the guys on ladders across buildings and floating with extension cords in the pool....
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Ólafur Unnar Jóhannsson 3 years ago
I didn't think so when I was young. But now I know it's a fact.
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Mimi M 3 years ago
Well your esophagus (goes to stomach) and trachea (goes to lungs) are separate pipes...
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
They’re separate pipes, but not separate throats.
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Audra Sisler 3 years ago (edited)
Yes! And Boyz 2 Men.... When it says "stop pointing fingers, the blame is on me" I thought it said, stomp on fingers! 😆😆😆😆 Good times LOL
François Carré 3 years ago (edited)
Well, French people listen to a lot of English music and most of the time we don't understand a word of the lyrics. But I remember, especially as a kid, how we pretended we did, and the hilarious interpretations of famous songs we adamantly stuck to. Sometimes it could be qualified as auditory hallucinations. You can even find some videos on Youtube that list the best ones of them. Like in David Bowie's Space Oddity : instead of "ground control to Major Tom", a French speaker can hear "grand contrôle de mes tétons" ("great control of my titties")...
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
For me it was Madonna's "Borderline". I always thought she was singing "you just keep on pushing Milo, over the borderline" Was always like Whot tf is Milo?
#36
Francesca 3 years ago
I always thought it was “only 70!!” And i always used to say Meryl Streep is looking good for her age
ScarletRos 3 years ago
I thought it said “only 70” too and I couldn’t figure out how that was “young and sweet”.
Load More Replies... DuchessDegu 3 years ago
"You can dance you can DIVE" 🤷♀️ (my logic was there's a lot of sea in Sweden)
2econdSelf 3 years ago
When I was young I thought the line "excuse me while I kiss the sky" in Purple Haze was "excuse me while I kiss this guy." Now that I think about it, there should be a whole thread devoted to confused song lyrics.
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Corey Smith 3 years ago
I was just about to say, "Ask any cop or paramedic."
Load More Replies... New Everywhere 3 years ago
I'm not in law enforcement or healthcare but I can definitely tell when it's a full moon
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#39
Kate Jones 3 years ago
Lol it's really true. I always saved it for last. By the time I was an adult I actually hated them and preferred real cherries. I used to get something called a Shirley Temple, and it's basically just a drink made of red grenadine and sprite with a maraschino cherry and kids get it because it looks like an alcoholic drink and makes you feel grown up (I usually get one on my birthday every year, lol). The cherry is really the fancy part.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
They jolly well are! I put them in my prosecco now. Just because I can
#40
Willow Bell 3 years ago
I thought that exact thing until I was 8 or 9 when we got our first tv.
Memaw Mitch 3 years ago
Tbh, I still make the mistake when meeting a new "pretty girl" cat or "good boy" dog. We couldn't have any pets as kids so who knows where that came from. I went on to have a girl and boy dogs and cats, so idk why it's still an assumed thing. Lol
LazyKitten 3 years ago
Yup, and any cats that were male and all dogs that were female were transgender but I did not know the term transgender yet. I was a dumb five-year-old.
#41
Lauren Copland 3 years ago
i still feel guilty of this when i walk my dog and they have a nice lawn 😅😄
#42
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
I can't not order a side of Alfredo sauce for dipping them in anymore. It's a MUST!
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#43
Amanda Rose 3 years ago
I wish the playgrounds around me looked this good. The ones I grew up with were trash.
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
This was my favorite! I still remember when I realized I was getting too talk to play on one.
Paul Rabit 3 years ago
I remember that day - I smacked my head while running through one of those lower level “secret passages” lol
Load More Replies... Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
i know one play ground that while very simple by today's standors, was the world to me and my brothe
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Funny how when I was a kid, I'd be playing on these things and just jump of the edge of them without even thinking twice, land and keep running/playing. Nowadays, just thought of doing that makes my knees scream.
Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
there is a playground down the street from me that looks exactly like this!
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Good'ole SplinterLand I can still remember how it smelled on a cool spring morning
#44
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
If my friends lived in a house (not a flat in a condo) they were like millionaires for me.
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
Anyone else have a one storey house and have a friend come over to play who started looking everywhere for the "stairs to go up" because they'd never been in a one storey house?
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago (edited)
no (because I had one yet we couldn't pay electricity sometimes), but I can totally see how being a shorty without a second floor would perceive that no doubt
#45
Ladedah 3 years ago (edited)
My younger sister once showed me a picture she found of me sitting in college hallway. I told her, "Weird. I don't remember that place. Where was this?" She replied, "That's because it's not you! I saw this girl in a hallway at my school!" 😱 Even I thought the damn girl was me. Seriously creepy! Never thought that could happen until then.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Hell, with my dad's past I believe my chances of an unknown half sibling somewhere is totally possible
Raki Suzuki-burke 3 years ago
I know I have a twin out there wandering in the world. We weren't separated at birth, though.
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Shoot. Idk how many times I hear "you used to work at, or didn't you used to live at" or something similar to those. People swearing up and down they know me from somewhere I never even heard of. I must have a lot of clones out there.
#46
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
I was driving through the pan handle and hit a sand storm. Driving all my life in Michigan winters did not prepare me for my car getting pushed horizontally into a ditch. We put sand down for the snow, y'all need to put snow down for your sand. Ngl It was scary af. Plus my car is gold colored so i blended right in.
Load More Replies... Kate Jones 3 years ago
Lol, no. But I drove through a part of Texas in my cross-country trips and you can go 2-3 hours driving straight and not see anything but cows. Factory farms are huge in Texas. As are oil rigs.
#47
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Nope ! I just learned real quick We never had more than a little in “savings “
#48
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
You should use the cold so you aren't ingesting c**p from the buildup in the water heater
Audra Sisler 3 years ago
Or something about hot water freezing faster than cold?? Anyone else?? 🤔🤔
Marissa Taylor 3 years ago
my mom and culinary arts teacher told meto use cold water before boing so the temp can be right. if you use hot water and boil it it will be to hot
Kristie Yuill 3 years ago
That's a new one I've never heard before. Water boils at 100 degrees C. If it gets hotter than that it becomes steam.
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 3 years ago
No but I heard hot water would freeze faster cause the particles were farther apart 😂 I’ve never looked up if it was true and I’m not leaving the list to check now 😂
KDS 3 years ago
It’s not true the water freezes at the same rate whether it’s hot or cold.
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Jrog 3 years ago
It is not true. The floor is the (electrical) ground, or negative pole, of the circuit, with the metal mesh at the top being energized at 40-60V DC (usually they are run at 48 volts). The pole picks up the current from the top and releases it to the ground through a 0,5 HP electric motor. You won't be electrocuted since the tension is low, and the most direct path to the negative pole of the generator is through the metal and the wires. Touching the floor of a bumper car ride is perfectly safe, save for the risk of being hit by the cars.
#51
Florida, but without the beach 3 years ago
I grew up terrified of lions because I read they don’t care if their prey is dead before they started eating it so I thought I’d be devoured by a group of lions from the feet up.
#53
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Technically you can. There are Titanic remains at the Titanic museum and they also go on tours with some of the stuff. Saw an exhibit in Chicago some years back. Really cool!
Andrea Cranford 3 years ago
There are also $125,000 (USD) trips you can take to the wreck. I also think they're building a Titanic II but I've been hearing about that for years. You could also get a job on that, if you don't believe in fate.
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Anne Kilpatrick 3 years ago
A 401(k) plan is a retirement savings plan offered by many American employers that has tax advantages for the saver. It is named after a section of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (IRC).
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unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
10 years ago on my last trip to a detox(alcohol) they had water, Gatorade, and ginger ale. I asked the nurses why the Gatorade, the hospital just told me that stuff is awful. The nurse getting my vitals said it's to placate the people who freak out thinking its the only thing thats going to stop the DT's, but they just puke more. He just said they eventually figure it out, they are just the ones that stayed longer even if less drunk than the next person.
#56
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
No ! Never ! I can’t remember anything except song lyrics and I can remember song lyrics like it’s my job😂
Paul Pierokowski 3 years ago
He was impeached for stealing North Pole secrets.
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Amanda Rose 3 years ago
Well there is another sister, Elizabeth. And she does look a lot like Mary Kate and Ashley.
ScarletRos 3 years ago
I didn’t realise they were twins (because you only ever saw one on Full House) and I thought there was one girl called Mary Kate Ashley Olsen.
Ozymandias73 3 years ago (edited)
Technically, there is a 3rd. She's plays Wanda aka Scarlett Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But to be honest, I didn't know about her until she appeared in those movies.
#58
HurlWurk 3 years ago
I think he means like a giant block of cheddar covered in frosting.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I wouldn't touch the stuff as a kid because I thought a cake made out of cheese sounded awful! Now I know better. Someone go get me a slice.
Amanda Jayne 3 years ago
My daughter was the same, she was 21 before she dared try cheesecake, now it's her favourite dessert
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 3 years ago
No coconut yogurt and coconut flour mixed together make a nice vegan cheesecake type texture
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Actually that sounds delicious. Coconut mango vegan cheesecake, I will try to make this for a couple of my friends who just happened to try vegan about 2 months ago. As a former chef trained in the old school French tradition, I have had a bit of a rough time cooking vegan all the way but I'm learning.
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#59
GoldfishCrackers 3 years ago
No, but I thought all gas stations where like that. Like huge gas pipelines connecting them all.
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
I was so far from ok when I was 5 and my dad said let's go the old soda fountain that was still around from his childhood. I was thinking like it was gonna be like a water fountain that shoots into the air 🤣
#60
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
Mine still does this, I flush sometimes just to make it heat faster otherwise it's cold for 10 minutes
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Kate Jones 3 years ago
This actually does happen in some places with crappy water lines. It could be hot or cold. It happens a lot if you run your washing machine or dishwasher while trying to shower. The water temp ends up all over the place.
#61
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
In Australia (and probably England I guess) our malls are a strip of shops, or like a laneway with shops on either side. Originally pronounced rhyming with pal (like England's Pall Mall in monopoly) but now the US influence means most people say it their way (not my dad though). The big building with multiple shops inside is a shopping centre. Not the point of this post, just wanted to share :)
#62
SupaCab 3 years ago
From Wikipedia: The lyrics describe two lovers taking a trip to a relaxing place on Kokomo, a utopic island off the Florida Keys. In addition to the fictional Kokomo, the song also makes references to many real Caribbean islands, including Aruba, Bahamas, Jamaica, Bermuda, Martinique, and Montserrat.
#63
Kate Jones 3 years ago
My mom used to babysit and I was terribly jealous of the attention my mom gave to the other kids sometimes. But she started weighing me and another girl as a competition and I was, like, 72lbs and the other girl was 70 and that literally began my issues with my weight that carried through my whole life. She weighed us together once a week. And because I had this jealousy already I started feeling like I wanted to be better and 'beat' her. I was only like 10 years old but it created this competition between us that caused a little bit of a domino effect in my brain about weight and self-worth.
There's a unicorn in the library 3 years ago
YES. i was horrendously bullied for being "fat" and now looking at the photos, i was unhealthily thin. funny, cause the diet i forced on myself effed up my health and now i'm actually fat thanks to it.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
Fat was a regular insult when I was in primary school. It didn't actually mean that you were. But it bloody hurt
Load More Replies... KY dog mom 3 years ago
Back in high school and college I thought I was fat because I was comparing myself to a bunch of emaciated supermodels. Years later when I looked back at old pictures of myself I realized that I looked great! It's a shame I didn't realize it back then because I was being brainwashed by the fashion/beauty industry.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago
I was a little chunky but not as chunky as mom and grandmother would have me believe! But my dads mom was over weight so maybe that’s why they were so concerned! It can’t be because they were just flat out mean old witches! Oh by the way did anyone else grow up thinking their mom and grandma were witches 😂
#65
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
Am I the only one who thought I was actually a real life Muppet monster and I was going to wake up from this dream of being a human?
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
It's true though, the world is the exact same just with Muppets replacing actual humans i.e. Muppet Joe Biden, Muppet LeBron James, totally weird. Wake up and come join us.
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François Carré 3 years ago
After seeing the movie D.A.R.Y.L. I seriously wondered if was actually an advanced robot and would have to find that out sooner or later.
Kate Jones 3 years ago
I was paranoid I was being watched when I was a kid with hidden cameras or something. I always had my towel hanging near my shower and I'd put it on before stepping out. I still get that feeling sometimes just walking around my apartment. The difference is now I just don't care, lol.
Monday 3 years ago
I did go through a phase where I was convinced people could be cloned and the clone would be inserted into their life and steal their family. I kept trying to figure out how I'd convince my parents that I was the real me and not a clone.
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
I was so scared of clones too. And also of having a car accident and my brain being used as a transplant and waking up in someone else's body and their life
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unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
We had blue bowls when I was a kid, always would b***h if I didn't get one of the two we had on mac night lol
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#68
Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
Looking at him now, all I can see is that his collar looks like he has a severely jutted out lower lip that flaps like a muppet.
BasedWang12.3 3 years ago
holy c**p, thats exactly what I saw for the first time when I scrolled to this picture.
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 3 years ago
No I was terrified of him and he’s so close to a figure I saw leave a friends of mines house through the wall the night her dad died ! It was scary and a story for another time but actually that’s the whole story in a nut shell 😂
Argle Bargle 3 years ago
I hope they have accurately portrayed what suspicious people look like. I have never seen this person, but I really hope to
#69
Sarah Murphy 3 years ago
YES it took me years to find out even tho I knew it was disney with a d
DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight 3 years ago
I still have to correct my self when I read it as Disnep
#71
readingthequibbler 3 years ago
The dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
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Tabitha Frost 3 years ago
Hehe I actually tried as a child to keep one outfit on forever. My parents weren't that happy lol.
#73
Holvnn Olive Ntivuguruzwa 3 years ago
There was a story of kidnapped baby girls to be sacrificed, so they said a pierced baby are malformed and that the gods/Satan (whoever have to be given a sacrifice) doesn't accept malformed babies, this story make people pierce the new borns so to protect them.
Audra Sisler 3 years ago
My mom wouldn't let me get then pierced so I had to do it at 16-17 and now I can't wear any cuz my earlobes blow up with puss and blood! Seriously what the f**k?!?!?! 🤔😳
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
I got them pierced very young. It’s tradition in my culture. Pretty much everyone else had earrings around me (girls) so I thought that was normal. Well, at least until I heard first piercing stories where these people got their ears pierced at 15…
Nadine Debard 3 years ago
It's not traditional in my culture and it gave me shivers the first time I saw a baby with earrings, then I realised it was an usual thing in some places
Load More Replies... Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I tried to, but I did the first one and then fainted in the sink
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#76
Chloe SWatson 3 years ago
This is kind of true in that you can't have a recording contract to enter as it's for 'amateurs', however some famous acts have been on there after leaving contracts or losing them.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I used to think that as a teen, because I didn't watch it myself. I still don't but now Australia is in it so I recognise the names of about half our entrants and our world cinema channel (the whole reason we are in it) plays the ads incessantly!
#77
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I am old enough to remember when it was thought big dinosaurs like the Diplodocus had a "second brain" in their hindquarters. It was even in a short documentary they showed at the local science museum! Of course, it's long since been debunked. As an adult I went to a special t-rex exhibition at the museum in Sydney and was amazed by how much we've learned since I was a kid!
Bryan W. 3 years ago
I vaguely remember something like that too. Or they had a second heart because their body was too big to circulate blood effectively. I think they used "maybe" words, but as a kid with no critical thinking ability who only cares about cool giant lizards, it comes across as "fact".
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I remember when I was a kid it was thought that saying "sayonara, sensei" in a tough way made you sound really badass. I'm pretty sure we were quoting some TV show or other, but which one specifically I have no idea.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We learnt Japanese at my primary school, whereas I rarely heard Spanish at the time. Also, I had a set of flash cards with words from different languages that I used to play with as a kid. Probably what sparked my interest in languages.
#79
Aiden Brough 3 years ago
I remember growing up as a kid thinking how long it would be before the year 2000 and that I would be 'old'. And to be 40? I couldn't envisage it as it seemed so far away! I turn 50 next year...
Batwench 3 years ago
I feel you there. But somehow I have reached that age and mentally I am still in my 20’s. Physically I feel in my 90’s lol
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unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
She was my favorite, I always hoped Kevin got to meet her again someday
#81
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
We never said shoot, I only noticed that on US shows in the last 15 years. We did have a variation that gun was one of the things you could choose and it won everytime- we gave that up quickly.
#82
Florence O'Grady 3 years ago
Sorry, no. My aunt's high school track and field team sold bagels to raise money. Never understood what the money was for.
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#84
Kate Jones 3 years ago
As a banker this can be a serious annoyance. We have to validate customer's with MMN and some cultures don't really understand what that even means. They think you're saying 'middle'. It's such a outdated thing because a lot of women don't get married so asking someone their MMN is just going to be the same last name as them so it feels like it's not a very secure validation question anymore.
#85
unfilteredCigarette73 3 years ago
"I don't believe that you're being truthful" " You callin' me a liar then"
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AnxioisEmby 3 years ago
I thought I’d get sucked down into the escalator if I didn’t step off it in time…
glowworm2 3 years ago
On a similar note I thought Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" was "Running Down the Drain" and for years pictured a tiny man frantically trying not to be washed down the drain of a kitchen sink!🤣
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Aliens didn’t make the list! Growing up in the 80’s I really thought aliens were going to be a bigger problem !
Slim Bluesbender 3 years ago
Reading this post, today i learned that my face is not ‘going to stick like that’
Poultry Geist 3 years ago (edited)
Also the 1st time I was told “ put some elbow grease on it”, I tried to squeeze my elbow for the grease to come out ! I was maybe 6
Tabitha Martel 3 years ago
This is a unique thing of my own but when I was a munchkin I was CONVINCED my grandpa was actually Bill Clinton. They gave him a fake family to protect us. And that was why he traveled so much, especially to DC. I mean I thought I had figured out some major secret. I believed this for his entire first term as President. I eventually came to the disappointing realization that he was who he said he was. I love him all the same :-)
AnxioisEmby 3 years ago
I thought I’d get sucked down into the escalator if I didn’t step off it in time…
glowworm2 3 years ago
On a similar note I thought Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream" was "Running Down the Drain" and for years pictured a tiny man frantically trying not to be washed down the drain of a kitchen sink!🤣
Load More Replies... Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Aliens didn’t make the list! Growing up in the 80’s I really thought aliens were going to be a bigger problem !
Slim Bluesbender 3 years ago
Reading this post, today i learned that my face is not ‘going to stick like that’
Poultry Geist 3 years ago (edited)
Also the 1st time I was told “ put some elbow grease on it”, I tried to squeeze my elbow for the grease to come out ! I was maybe 6
Tabitha Martel 3 years ago
This is a unique thing of my own but when I was a munchkin I was CONVINCED my grandpa was actually Bill Clinton. They gave him a fake family to protect us. And that was why he traveled so much, especially to DC. I mean I thought I had figured out some major secret. I believed this for his entire first term as President. I eventually came to the disappointing realization that he was who he said he was. I love him all the same :-)
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