What are some funny things you thought as a kid that were wrong?

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When I was around 7 years old, we went to visit my Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in San Antonio for a week. Everyone was discussing what we should eat the first night since we arrived around dinner time. My cousin kept saying, "Whataburger!" over and over, which I had never heard of. They decided they would cook that night, but told my cousin we would go to Whataburger tomorrow.

Well, I thought she was saying, "water burger" the whole time, and I'm thinking, I don't want a burger made out of water. A wet bun alone is horrible, so I couldn't imagine what a water burger tasted like. The next morning, I ate as big of a breakfast as I could thinking I was going to skip the nasty water burger and wouldn't eat again until later in the evening. Now, my family did not eat a lot of fast food growing up, so normally I jumped at the chance when it happened, but of course in this case, I said I wasn't hungry so I didn't order anything. When they got back with the food, everyone had hamburgers, french fries, etc. and I got to watch them eat them while I just sat there. Later on, I got to eat a very plain tasting sandwich.
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Whataburger was always a rare threat when I was growing up. Sorry that happened to you @Reality.
 
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I love watermelon flavored stuff but wont eat actual watermelons. My dad told me as a kid if you accidentally swallow a seed a watermelon will grow in your stomach, scared me to death. Obviously I dont still believe that, but to this day I wont eat an actual watermelon, just an association thing I guess......

One of the worst things I ever did to my littlest brother was told him if he ate a worm he would turn into a Lion (this was when Lion King came out)...he ate half a worm and I didnt stop laughin for months lol......
 
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Reality said:
When I was around 7 years old, we went to visit my Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in San Antonio for a week. Everyone was discussing what we should eat the first night since we arrived around dinner time. My cousin kept saying, "Whataburger!" over and over, which I had never heard of. They decided they would cook that night, but told my cousin we would go to Whataburger tomorrow.

Well, I thought she was saying, "water burger" the whole time, and I'm thinking, I don't want a burger made out of water. A wet bun alone is horrible, so I couldn't imagine what a water burger tasted like. The next morning, I ate as big of a breakfast as I could thinking I was going to skip the nasty water burger and wouldn't eat again until later in the evening. Now, my family did not eat a lot of fast food growing up, so normally I jumped at the chance when it happened, but of course in this case, I said I wasn't hungry so I didn't order anything. When they got back with the food, everyone had hamburgers, french fries, etc. and I got to watch them eat them while I just sat there. Later on, I got to eat a very plain tasting sandwich.
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Dude. It's Texas. They WERE saying "water burger". Lol. I went to high school in Denton and avoided that place like the plague for the same reason!?!
 
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I am a second generation Cowboy's fan. I have fond memories of watching games with my father and, invariably, at some critical juncture in the game, he would say, "get me the phone, I have to call in a play to Coach Landry." We had one of those old rotary phones with a really long cord. I remember my dad going through the motion of dialing a number and saying something like, "Listen coach, the other team's defense is just not stopping the run to the left; you need to hammer the left side of the line." Sure enough, there would be run to the left. I was so proud of my dad. It's funny -- long after I figured out this was simply a stunt for my benefit, he would still insist on calling Coach Landry. Still makes me smile all these years later.
 
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When I was very young, my grandfather and I used to watch football games together. He was a Houston Oilers fan and we used to get a lot of their games on TV. While watching games, it seemed like every time the Oilers fumbled, my grandfather would yell, "DAMN IT!", so for whatever reason, i associated dropping something with those words.

So one day we had a lot of people over at my grandparents' house. Everyone was standing and sitting around talking, while I was carrying food through the room. I don't remember what I was carrying, but I remember it was something I was looking forward to eating. Well, of course I dropped it, and what did I say? "DAMN IT!" The next thing I knew, everyone had stopped talking and started staring at me, then a moment later I was being dragged by my arm above my head by my grandmother, who I remember thinking was quite stronger than I expected, to a backroom where I learned that there were apparently words you are not supposed to say. Who knew? :D
 

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In the days before Atari my brother thought that good entertainment could be had by terrifying his gullible 6 year old brother.
On Easter eve he told me a big secret:
The Easter Bunny was actually a werewolf who only transformed into bunny form after it had tasted human blood.
Spent the evening piling moveable furniture against my bedroom door
 
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We used to receive the newspaper around 4 pm every weekday and my dad would tell me to get the paper from the mailbox. I was 10 years old in 1974. I would skim the headlines as I brought him the paper. 'Watergate' was in all the headlines. I actually thought Watergate was a dam in Washington DC. I didn't get what the big deal was about a dam in DC.

We finally got cable TV around 1978 when I was around 14. Growing up just above the poverty level, we were one of the last families to get it. Many kids in school would talk about all the sex shown in cable TV. The kids explained it like they were seeing graphic, close-up detail of this act that I so wanted to see (and do with my hot, young, blonde math teacher, she was smoking hot and to this day I still love math. I probably can thank her for becoming an engineer because I wanted to impress her with my math skills. I think she is etched into my DNA memory since I can still vividly remember her.). Dang, after expecting so much on cable TV, was I disappointed with what little they showed on cable TV. Talk about a major letdown!

Watching the space stuff in the late 1960s and early 1970s at such a young age (4-8) on TV and hearing that man landed on the moon, I thought there is nothing man cannot accomplish. I still believe man can accomplish so much, but some things may just be impossible.

I thought if I was a good boy that week, my Cowboys would win that week. Finally, mostly gave up on that around age 50 or so. Although, a little of that thought still remains with me. Where does my good karma go if it doesn't come back to me and it doesn't go to my Cowboys?
 
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