https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:33:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035526 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:30:58 +0000 BadgerMom 2035526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: Bahahaha! I did not know this! 29 year old here still saying "Up and Adam!" :grin: </p> <p>I used to think my dad's car radio was voice controlled - He had volume and channel controls on the steering wheel. I could never figure out why it wouldn't work when my mom was driving...</p> <p>The county jail was close to my house growing up and it has a big smokestack coming out of the building. Whenever my parents would point out the jail as we drove by, I thought they were pointing at the smokestack, and naturally assumed that they just threw the prisoners down that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035476 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:07:50 +0000 erinpye 2035476@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was very confused by chokers. I couldn't understand why anyone would wear a necklace that was choking her, and was always worried for the people I saw wearing one. </p> <p>The song that goes, "every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you," deeply disturbed me. I was convinced it meant that the person took like a chunk of skin from the other person, regularly. It didn't help that when I asked my dad to clear it up, he only confirmed my fears. :silly: </p> <p>I took things quite literally! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035460 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:01:32 +0000 Cole 2035460@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: my mom did the stop light thing too! I was seriously like twenty before I realized her secret!</p> <p>I also thought there was something to the eating a seed thing. The day my mom told us she was pregnant with my sister she swallowed a watermelon seed and I always was suspicious there was a connection! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035412 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:38:28 +0000 .twist. 2035412@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumn865: hehehehe. That made me lol. Kids seriously are so funny and adult life/knowledge must just be so confusing. </p> <p>_______ </p> <p>The other day our middle child asked about umbilical cords. He was totally confused about why babies had scabs on their bellies and what are the scabs for/from??? So cute. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035409 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:35:55 +0000 autumn865 2035409@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Embarrassingly I thought that making a baby had something to do with peeing on one another. I knew it had something to do with a girls privates and a boys privates and peeing was the only thing I knew privates did! I was blown away in 5th grade "family life class" when I learned the real mechanics of it all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035398 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:31:28 +0000 .twist. 2035398@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@fuzzypeaches: YES to watermelon bellies! </p> <p>I used to think my dad could make green lights magically turn on and make the garage door open. He would say "1....2....3... GO" at lights and he could time it right so it was about when the light would turn green. And he'd also get me to say "OPEN SESAME" to the garage door and he would press the button and the door would open. Woooooow! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035324 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:57:00 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2035324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: did you receive a special invitation in the mail to see the movie too? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035320 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:54:47 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2035320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lilyann: oh my gosh me too! My parents didn't explain well that the traffic signal controls were handled in one large control centere somewhere and not miniature people inside the lights. </p> <p>My grandma had me believing if you swallow gum I would make my insides stick together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035309 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:50:28 +0000 littlejoy 2035309@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: Hahaha! The mirror thing! Gah! I hate mirrors at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035302 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:45:45 +0000 blackbird 2035302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: Black and white cows! You know, a one stop shop </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035260 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:25:48 +0000 Mae 2035260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: where did you think hamburgers came from ? lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think/page/2#post-2035254 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:23:23 +0000 MrsKoala 2035254@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That oral sex meant phone sex. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035223 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:15:55 +0000 LaughLines 2035223@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: I heard this one too! Someone else on it thought that the Neilson families who are used to calculate neilson tv ratings all were named Neilson. </p> <p>My brother convinced me tapioca pudding was made with fish eyes. I think it was so he could eat it without me taking any. </p> <p>We also tricked my younger sister into thinking she was hatched from an egg, not born. Her nickname was "bird" (can't remember where that started, i think because she ate like a bird when she was a baby) but she asked why we called her bird and we said it was because she was hatched like a bird. From a pink egg with purple spots. She believed it for a long long time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035219 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:15:07 +0000 birdofafeather 2035219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i thought the movie "land before time" was a special movie that only my family knew about... until i grew up and figured out who steven spielberg was and that it was such a popular movie that they made like 27 more sequels! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035217 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:14:27 +0000 blackbird 2035217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to think that the only cows were dairy cows. Black and white moo cows from CA. When i moved to the midwest, i was shocked to learn that cows could, in fact, NOT be black and white. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035208 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:11:43 +0000 Shutterbug 2035208@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: LOL! My DH used to say "for all intensive purposes" until I corrected him (when he was like, 21). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035195 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:07:43 +0000 Mae 2035195@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shutterbug: lol! I actually just thought of a similar thing. I always thought the expression was "Up and Adam". Like... until I met my husband in my 20s and we were living together. One morning I was whining about getting out of bed and he said "Up and Adam" and I was like... who the fuck is Adam and why do I want to be him leave me alooooneee. </p> <p>And then my husband burst out laughing and explained that it isn't "up and Adam" it is "up and at (th)em"!! lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035184 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:04:05 +0000 Shutterbug 2035184@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: ahhhh crap. I went to college, honest! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035183 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:03:39 +0000 Mae 2035183@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shutterbug: now i'm really going to blow your mind. It isn't end trails. It is entrails ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035177 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:01:07 +0000 lilyann 2035177@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to think short people worked in the stop lights, like people sat inside and worked the buttons to change the lights...ugh, thanks mom and dad!</p> <p>I'll share one my DH believed up until a few years ago, he thought spot lights were used to search for storms! LOL We still joke about it :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035151 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:50:48 +0000 Mrs. Bee 2035151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>that car pools were cars with pools in them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035146 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:48:06 +0000 Shutterbug 2035146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to think people were saying "make ends meat" (instead of "make ends meet") and I thought "ends meat" was a kind of cheap meat that you ate when you were poor. Made of like... end trails or something? I don't know where I came up with that, but I thought it for an embarrassingly long time, LOL. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035144 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:46:18 +0000 twodoghouse 2035144@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I thought of another one. This is really embarrassing and I can't believe I'm admitting it.</p> <p>But I thought Ulysses S Grant was black. When we were in third grade we had to do a book report about someone in the Civil War and draw a picture of them to decorate the hall outside our classroom. So one of classmates did Ulysses S Grant and colored him to look like him. So I went a long time (like a LONG TIME) thinking Grant was black and we were so progressive to have a black president right after the Civil War. :bummed: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035129 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:41:21 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2035129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you pout and stick out your bottom lip a bird will poop on it. </p> <p>If you lie your tongue turns black. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035112 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:35:35 +0000 JennyPenny 2035112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man, I used to believe so many of these! I think the big one, is I used to think that if someone died in a movie, that the actor died for real. I even thought that they would film the whole thing and save the death scenes for last and you'd have to just make sure everything went perfectly, because otherwise you'd have to film the whole movie over again with a different actor - and wouldn't it be so sad if someone died for the movie, and didn't actually get to be in it in the end. I don't know how I came up with so many explanations and didn't just think "or maybe they don't really die" :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035110 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:35:21 +0000 fuzzypeaches 2035110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That if I ate a watermelon seed I would grow a watermelon and explode (thanks bro ) </p> <p>Also my dad told us he was Aunt Jemima's nephew (??? We are immigrants... And we aren't black either) and so we spent many years thinking we were their heir to some sort of syrup/pancake fortune! Hahaha. That one still cracks up the whole family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035107 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:34:49 +0000 twodoghouse 2035107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to think the way people had babies was that you fell asleep and when you woke up, the dr would put a little wrapped up baby in your arms. I blame this misconception on watching soap operas with my mom when I was little. It always happened like that on tv when I was little.</p> <p>I also believed all wildlife had rabies and if you could touch an animal it was very sick. I think this was a clever way my parents kept us kids from touching baby birds, etc. I actually believed this until college. On campus the squirrels were nearly domesticated and would sit at people's feet begging for food. I once expressed that it was so scary. Don't those students know squirrels like that are rabid and they will catch it if you get too close? And my roommate was like what the hell? That is not how it works! But I appreciate the lie my parents told because no animals were ever tormented by us kids and I never got rabies. Win/win. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035075 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:15:25 +0000 loveisstrange 2035075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That my face would get stuck that way. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035068 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:10:07 +0000 Mae 2035068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man I wish I could think of more! The only one I can really think of is that I (for some reason) thought that the way a woman got pregnant was she ate a seed. Like a watermelon seed or an orange seed. So I was always really careful not to eat seeds. lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-used-to-think#post-2035058 Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:06:28 +0000 yoursilverlining 2035058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When my friend and I were like 10, we asked her older teenage sister about periods and somehow came away from the conversation thinking periods only lasted 2 hours. I was in for an unpleasant surprise a few years later! :shocked: </p>