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re: Weird Things You Misunderstood (Took Literally) as a Kid

Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:02 pm to
Posted by jmcs68
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:02 pm to
Glad I wasn't the only one.
Posted by blue_morrison
Member since Jan 2013
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Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:05 pm to
I always thought the black market was a brick and mortar type place, or an open air market you'd see in an old movie.
Posted by Huey Lewis
BR
Member since Oct 2013
5064 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:16 pm to
I thought the weatherman was saying windshield factor instead of wind chill factor, and that it was some kind of measure of how much ice accumulation was on your windshield in the morning so adults would know how much extra time they would need to deice their windshields and still get to work on time.
Posted by c on z
Zamunda
Member since Mar 2009
130428 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:19 pm to
"No Trucks Allowed" on certain roads.

"Do not Drink and Drive". I often assumed that it meant to not drink anything at all (even water) while you're driving.
Posted by jb4
Member since Apr 2013
13685 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:26 pm to
guerrilla warfare at one time i thought it was real apes fighting a war.
Posted by CoastLSUFan
Member since Nov 2010
749 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:27 pm to
As a teacher, I've had kids confused about black-and-white versus color and thinking it applied to vision--not just TV.

We were studying the American Revolution, and I mentioned the redcoats. A girl asked me why they were called the redcoats, so I explained it. She then asked, "How could people tell their coats were red? Wasn't everything black and white back then?"
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162779 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:48 pm to
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Remember how there used to be announcements at airports telling folks where they could "meet their party"? I thought there were actually parties there for them, with balloons and shite. Always wanted them to announce where I could meet my party. Never came man, never came.


Posted by colorchangintiger
Dan Carlin
Member since Nov 2005
30979 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:55 pm to
Do you even transubstantiate bro?
Posted by Bmath
LA
Member since Aug 2010
18876 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:57 pm to
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I thought jealousy was actually some flavor of jelly



I thought being selfish meant you were acting like some type of cell fish.
Posted by JonTheTigerFan
Central, LA
Member since Nov 2003
7057 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 8:58 pm to
A friend of mine thought all cats were girls and all dogs were boys.

I thought black women had chocolate milk in their boobs.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162779 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:00 pm to
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My first grade PE coach told the class that if we misbehaved we would be in boiling hot water. This scared the shite out of me. Every day during PE I was looking for a giant witches pot big enough to boil me in.

After my mother explained to me how my little brothers would nurse I thought chocolate milk came from black people.


the second one wins the thread.
Posted by The Nino
Member since Jan 2010
21808 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:00 pm to


I thought these were called "vanilla envelopes". Hey, they're the same color as vanilla wafers...at the time it made alot of sense
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:02 pm to
When my oldest was around 5. He had his first friend from a different race. He asked the little boy if he was related to the Jacksons. Plus he thought the world was in black and white in the olden days
This post was edited on 8/11/15 at 9:07 pm
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:04 pm to
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I thought these were called "vanilla envelopes". Hey, they're the same color as vanilla wafers...at the time it made alot of sense


My wife still does, I don't have energy to correct her
Posted by mach316
Jonesboro, AR
Member since Jul 2012
4925 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:04 pm to
Flea market had fleas
J walking was strutting
This post was edited on 8/11/15 at 9:08 pm
Posted by Spankum
Miss-sippi
Member since Jan 2007
60571 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:06 pm to
Before school, my mom always had the Today show on...every morning for years on end I was totally confused when they would say "This is today"...

I always wondered why they needed to tell me that...
Posted by Pectus
Internet
Member since Apr 2010
67302 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:12 pm to
I thought if you poured liquids onto things that fully absorbed the liquid, then the whole thing would evaporate given enough time.
Posted by The Nino
Member since Jan 2010
21808 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:12 pm to
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Thought a serial killer was someone who ate lots of cereal.
I thought a serial killer was a guy that killed the characters/people on cereal boxes
Posted by 3en
Member since May 2015
507 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:24 pm to
When I was a wee tyke, while on a drive my folks would say, "there is the poo-poo plant" as we passed the sewage and water treatment facility. I was always looking at the trees and shrubs outside of the building asking, "where? where?"; thinking 'a plant that poos?!?!' To where they exclaimed, "RIGHT THERE!"

I still don't think I've ever come clean with them that I didn't know what they meant at the time.
Posted by KG6
Member since Aug 2009
10920 posts
Posted on 8/11/15 at 9:27 pm to
I remember the first time I was told to "choke up" on a baseball bat. I was 4 or 5 in t-ball and looked at my dad like he was nuts.

Also, not exactly along the same lines, but I remember being younger and thinking the priest was actually Jesus in church. Parents always talked about Jesus and such and the priest seemed like the most important person in my tiny view of the Catholic Church, so he must have been Jesus.
This post was edited on 8/12/15 at 7:39 am
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