45 Hilariously Painful “I Used To Think” Moments People Shared For Jimmy Fallon’s Challenge

I thought you were arrested. At night. With a pillowcase over your head. And taken to a secret location.. And have stories written about you that would make everyone relieved you had disappeared.

Oh my gosh… I never… but he… he DID go grocery shopping. I can’t believe I learned this today… *feels shame*

To be fair to anyone that thought that, the illustrations would always be a little piggy trotting along in their best bonnet swinging a basket from their arm, presumably for all their fruit and veg, not a piggy in a cage being taken to the butchers!

In elementary school, we had handouts to color in and do fun puzzles on that were part of our nutrition education. They were so cool, because they had the McDonalds logo on them. We had schoolwork from McDonalds. That was fun. It’s also where we were taught we needed and daily dose of meat and, more importantly, hamburgers grew in grassy, sunny rolling hillsides in hamburger patches.

Omg, I never even considered that until now! LOL. I think a lot of people are guilty of that one, though, as a lot of people probably haven’t heard about or acknowledged that little nursery rhyme since childhood! 😅

Didn't we all?

You ruined it for me :(

Ok, wait...this little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home. This little piggy had roast beef, this little piggy had none. And, this little piggy cried 'wee, wee, wee, wee' all the way home. Imma stick with the piggy went to market to fetch viddles. ;)

Well it is!

Oh........the"meat" market

Aww...to be fair I was embarrassingly old when I realised this too..

My childhood is going to hell in a hand basket!!

He's not???

Well i never. I always thought it went shopping not getting butchered. Poor yummy piggy

We all did at some point.

wait... he wasn't?

Nope. Bacon

Cartoons did us dirty on this one my brother

That sounds cute :)

aww, this is the sweetest thing I ever heard, giving you a bit of magic~ yet a slightly evil prank with mom to share with when you are older! "remember how you used to think they grew hahaha!"

It shouldn't really make a difference, they should all want the best for our country, but when half the country is stupid enough to vote for a sleazy reality tv host with zero political experience who brags about sexually assaulting women, it's time to adjust that expectation.

Favorite

I used to make sure each toy was tucked into a little bed. Yes it did take me a long time to go to sleep at night.

Aww, poor dear. If only you’d had the courage to tell your adult relatives at the time; as (unless your fam love pranks) they surely would’ve put your mind to rest. 🥺

Ah yes, this egg carton contains eggs, very good, I shall purchase them.

There's still time.

That would be sweet.

This is one we can all relate to.

I would not, in any capacity, wish for a doll, any doll, to mysteriously appear under my bed.

I think I would die if this was real. IMAGINE IF YOU WERE OUTSIDE IF A @&#$% WORM FELL ON YOUR HEAD

In that case, they were well cast movies, if you believed they were the same person. :D

Aww!! ❤️💛💚

And then I went on to do PhD and found it was true.

Pictured here is Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of Hawai’i.

God pls send me a ponny ....(nothing happend)....Oh man!!

We all thought so :)

I learned this as a teen when my best friend died. My group of friends were so kind to each other, stopped gossiping, really put effort into letting each other know we cared. That lasted a few months and it slowly dissolved back to how it was before. I slowly pulled away from all my friends then picked a college none of them were going to. My friend dying did change me and it wasn’t a temporary thing. I picked different friends at college.

Imagine Paul Rudd enter a drag race

Artists used to have real work ethics.

I used to tell my ex that the only "common cents" she has was the family change dish.... She never got it lol

It took me a second but its so funny!

Here’s something for our German speaking pandas: I lived in Germany for a few years as a child and teenager. One day, in primary school, the teacher prepared us for our first trip to the library. She explained that “die Bibliote Karin” will show us around. 7 year old me deducted from this that clearly “Bibliote” meant librarian and that her name was Karin.

Omg. We rock because I thought that also.

i was told i would get hairy palms

Good thing you have a lot of breaks on American television or the house would have been in shambles. ✌️

How cool would that be, if it were true!

I used to play with my toys equally because I didn’t want one to feel bad that I didn’t like it as much. But then I’d secretly hold the paw to my favorite stuffy (which was an armadillo btw) so he knew I really liked him best.

You weren't alone.

I bless the rains down in Africa. Gonna take some time to do the things we never had (ooh, ooh)

Sadd that it doesn't work like that. There would be lesser waste on earth.

I thought I was the only one that thought this!!!

Great PSA

This is a family joke. All the photos of when my parents were young are in black and white. So if something happened a long time ago, we say "back when the world was in black and white". There doesn't seem to be much evidence that things were in colour as they have very few possessions from back then. The 60s and 70s were definitely in colour as we have photos to prove it, plus I remember the (hideous) orange carpet that they had in the kitchen!

Better than my old school photos, always looked creepy