Things you thought were true when you were a kid

[Mr Pig]

My babysitter told me that if I bit my finger nails they would collect into a bit ball in my stomach and I would die. She was generally full of sh** though and I didn't actually believe her.

I did however believe that the only way to cook food was a huge pan full of lard which took about three-hours to melt! My mother cooked everything in that thing, it was gross. It came as a great surprise to me to learn than many of the items regularly plopped into that fat could be cooked in other ways.

 

[Kirstie]

Swallowed chewing gum, as far as we were concerned, would wrap itself around your lungs...

...and if the wind changed we would stay like that...

...Adam Ant had skin cancer...

...and the bicycles that we had were 'pavement cycles' and could only be ridden on the pavement, not on the road (what was that about?)

 

[JtB]

Ghosts!!!!

 

[Mr Pig]

When I was very small I thought there was a monster under my bed! Just waiting to grab your leg if you got out of bed in the dark. If I had to go to the toilet in the night I jumped as far off the bed as I could and ran out of the room ;0)