“What was the dumbest thing you believed as a kid?”

“I believed that my body was hollow and after each meal I’d ask dad how full I was. He’d ‘umm’ and ‘ahh’ then point to my knees and say, ‘oh, around there son’. I always wondered why I never filled right up.” - Brent McKean

“I thought north was always in front of me.” - C Vornfett

“I thought the faster my parents would drive to get somewhere, the less gas they would use.” - K Wallech-White

“I thought livestock could walk safely on the hills in NZ because their legs on one side were shorter than the other.”- V Rodios

“I thought that teacher’s didn’t have first names.” - F McDonald

“I always thought cats and dogs were the same animal, only dogs were boys and cats were girls.” - C Gibbs

“I always wondered why anyone would want to be an actor as you would see them get shot on every TV western. I assumed they got killed just for the show.” - P Ross

“That touching an electric wire fence would make me grow taller.... zap!” - E Stephens

“As a child growing up in the ‘60’s, I thought when you grew into an adult you could take your teeth out. All the adults I saw up close and personal had dentures.” - J Hainsworth

“My son believed that power lines were actually coffee pipes going directly into people’s houses and the transformers at the end of the street brewed it! No idea where he got that idea from.” - J Mitchell

“I thought that if I ate birdseed I’d be able to whistle.” - B Tombs

“I believed the saying ‘I know this road so well I can ride it with my eyes closed’. Tested that one. Crashed my bike into a parked car.” - S Anne

“If you swallowed a fish bone you would have to eat a cotton wool sandwich. To this day I can’t eat fish with bones in it.”- J Wilson

“My parents told me that bad children were sent to the sausage farm and made into sausages. Still haunts me to this day.” - C Chandler

“I thought little people lived in the television when we got our 1st tv in 1968. Also, my brother told me heavy ships float, because they are full of ping pong balls. I believed him!” - S Maxwell

“As a child in Scotland, I believed the new baby came in the nurse’s black bag.” - H Patrick

“As a kid I always thought that daddy long legs were one of the most venomous spiders.” - T Styles