WHEN I WAS A KID I BELIEVED…

Reddit asked, “What stupid thing did you believe as a kid? Some of the responses:
– “That songs played on the radio were being played live each time they came on. Smashing pumpkins song at 2am? Assumed they got out of bed for it. My parents never corrected me on that theory.”
– “I believed that when I left for school my mom would move the grandfather clock to the side , revealing a secret video monitor and she would watch me as I walked to school and while I was in class. I thought her asking me about my day was a test to see how honest I was.”
– “Cats are girls and dogs are boys.”
– “That the high pitched noise on hot summer days was electricity running through the power lines. It was really cicadas.”
– “My dad was “checking for poison” by always taking the first few swigs of my cokes.”
– “Still waiting for that watermelon in my stomach to come out.
– “One day as a kid I was messing with our car horn. My parents told me that if I honked the horn for too long, the airbags would deploy. Sometime last year a friend was mad and honked his horn for a good minute. You can imagine the panic.”
– “I used to think the hand of God actually appeared mid air to take the monies from the collection plate after church service.”
– “My grandma told me the rumble strips on the side of the road were to help blind people maintain their lane. I believed her until I was 10.”
– “I was told that if you vacuum over the vacuum cord and suck it up, the house will blow up. Genuinely believed that until I was like 14.”
– “I never watched “Never Ending Story” as a kid because I genuinely thought it would take a literal lifetime to finish.”
– “I thought that Madonna was more of a position than a person. Like the pope or Dali lama a new one would be appointed at a certain time. And maybe I could grow up one day to be Madonna.”
– “I remember asking my parents why do men usually die before women and my dad said “because they take our breath away”. So I believed that for some reason, at a certain point in a man’s life, his woman somehow suffocates him and he dies. Because that’s the law.”
– “Black Santa lived in the South Pole.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What weird thing did you believe as a kid?