🎲 What’s the weirdest thing you believed as a kid? 🎲

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  • yuzumi
    yuzumi Posts: 141 ✭✭
  • Gramart
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  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭
  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭

    Were you convinced you could control cars like a superhero—turns out, they just didn’t want to hit you!?

  • PieSenPie
    PieSenPie Posts: 112 ✭✭

    Yepp I even showed my friend my car controlling super powers

  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭

    @PieSenPie said:
    Yepp I even showed my friend my car controlling super powers

    How cute! 😁

  • Gramart
    Gramart Posts: 1,772 ✭✭

    @PieSenPie said:
    Yepp I even showed my friend my car controlling super powers

    I imagine the enthusiasm while showing that! 😁

  • ggin
    ggin Posts: 50 ✭✭

    I was scared to fall off the planet

  • junozero
    junozero Posts: 778 ✭✭

    Santa also.

  • swatt_code_K2HJV
    swatt_code_K2HJV Posts: 898 ✭✭

    Flying saucer.

  • Oli 64JKA
    Oli 64JKA Posts: 8,613 ✭✭

    Santa and fairy tooth.

  • SuperFrizz 5CQ2W
    SuperFrizz 5CQ2W Posts: 1,196 ✭✭

    I was afraid thinking I could found several snakes running under my bed.

  • ttify
    ttify Posts: 846 ✭✭

    When I was a kid, my mom told me that shaking a can of soda would make it explode. I always thought it meant a dangerous, bomb-like explosion and handled cans very carefully. Then I saw a kid shake a can vigorously at summer camp on purpose and realised the explosion was just a strong fizzy soda stream erupting into the air!

  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭

    @ttify said:
    When I was a kid, my mom told me that shaking a can of soda would make it explode. I always thought it meant a dangerous, bomb-like explosion and handled cans very carefully. Then I saw a kid shake a can vigorously at summer camp on purpose and realised the explosion was just a strong fizzy soda stream erupting into the air!

    Haha that’s such a classic childhood moment! 😂 It’s funny how our imaginations take things way further than intended. You must’ve been thinking you were handling live grenades all that time. Imagine the shock at camp — like, “Wait… that’s it?!” 🍾💥🫧

  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭

    @SuperFrizz 5CQ2W said:
    I was afraid thinking I could found several snakes running under my bed.

    Omg yes — childhood fears can get wild! 🐍😱 One minute it’s a normal bedtime, next minute your brain’s like “what if there’s a secret snake convention under here?” 🐍🐍🐍 Total ninja move every night: jumping onto the bed from a safe distance just in case. 😂

  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭

    @Oli 64JKA said:
    Santa and fairy tooth.

    Oh yes — the ultimate childhood legends! 🎅🦷✨

    Santa: “He sees you when you’re sleeping…” — and suddenly you’re lying there wide-eyed at 2am wondering if you should fake-sleep extra hard so he’ll still bring presents. 🎁😆

    Tooth Fairy: You lose a tooth and your parents are like “Put it under your pillow!” Meanwhile you’re stressed thinking what if I roll over and squish her? Will she still leave the money?? 🧚‍♀️💸

    Childhood was basically a full-time job keeping up with these magical visitors! 🎄🦷✨

  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭
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    @swatt_code_K2HJV said:
    Flying saucer.

    Did you spend half my childhood scanning the sky for flying saucers!? 🛸👀✨

  • Ciroxa
    Ciroxa Posts: 2,205 ✭✭

    @ggin said:
    I was scared to fall off the planet

    Did you think you'd just slip off if you jumped too high!? 🌍😱🪐

  • JFC15
    JFC15 Posts: 248 ✭✭

    I didn't fully believe it but I tried (and hoped) that I could move objects with the force like Luke Skywalker did at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back when he grabs his lightsaber. It never worked but I tried form time to time...

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @Ciroxa said:
    Hey everyone! Let’s take a trip down memory lane and share the most bizarre, funny, or downright ridiculous things we believed when we were kids.
    For example:
    I thought the Tooth Fairy would leave me a fortune under my pillow. 🦷✨
    I was convinced Santa’s reindeer landed on my roof every Christmas Eve. 🎅🦌
    I believed swallowing gum would make it stay in my stomach for 7 years. 🍬⏳
    What’s yours? Share your funniest childhood belief below—let’s laugh together! 😂

    Of course 😂😂😂

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @FancifulBeat said:
    I believed that the world used to be in black and white. Because that's what I saw in old movies and tv shows and photographs…🤦‍♀️

    I heard this recently 🤣🤣 make sense

  • Linkin
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    @Oli 64JKA said:
    That brown cows were making chocolat milk

    This is hilarious 🤣

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @Ciroxa said:
    https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/comment/6995622#Comment_6995622
    Maybe next, we'll find out that black-and-white cows are secretly producing cookies and cream milkshakes!

    Wont be surprised 🤣

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @propea said:
    https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/comment/6996711#Comment_6996711
    Oh, that’s a solid childhood theory—props to little you for the celestial fashion sense! Mine? I was 100% convinced that if I ran fast enough with an open umbrella, I’d take off like Mary Poppins. Spoiler: gravity had other plans, and I just ended up with a bruised ego and a broken umbrella.

    Also, your Santa stakeout strategy was next-level. The tinsel tripwire? Genius. If only dogs didn’t have a habit of ruining our best-laid plans! Ever try any other wild schemes as a kid?

    @propea said:
    https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/comment/6996711#Comment_6996711
    Oh, that’s a solid childhood theory—props to little you for the celestial fashion sense! Mine? I was 100% convinced that if I ran fast enough with an open umbrella, I’d take off like Mary Poppins. Spoiler: gravity had other plans, and I just ended up with a bruised ego and a broken umbrella.

    Also, your Santa stakeout strategy was next-level. The tinsel tripwire? Genius. If only dogs didn’t have a habit of ruining our best-laid plans! Ever try any other wild schemes as a kid?

    😂😂 me too, i thought i would fly but i need to jump off a cliff or hight things while running.

  • Linkin
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    @propea said:
    The little light inside the car on the top… when you press it the car would explode.

    Huge imagination, 🤣🤣 how come no car got exploded.

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @Ciroxa said:
    https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/comment/6996035#Comment_6996035

    Haha, that’s a good one! As a kid, I totally would’ve bought that pressing the car’s overhead light could turn it into a fireball. My weirdest belief was that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a whole watermelon would grow in my stomach—roots and all. I’d sit there clutching my belly after a snack, waiting for the vines to pop out! What other wild stuff did you fall for back then?

    @Ciroxa said:
    https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/comment/6996035#Comment_6996035

    Haha, that’s a good one! As a kid, I totally would’ve bought that pressing the car’s overhead light could turn it into a fireball. My weirdest belief was that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, a whole watermelon would grow in my stomach—roots and all. I’d sit there clutching my belly after a snack, waiting for the vines to pop out! What other wild stuff did you fall for back then?

    If so , i have a watermelon farm in my stomach.

  • Linkin
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    @PieSenPie said:
    I thought I had the power to make cars stop because they stop if I walked in front of it.

    That’s a real power 😬👍🏻, but make sure the driver sees you.

  • Linkin
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    @PieSenPie said:
    https://forum.fizz.ca/en/discussion/comment/7005731#Comment_7005731
    Yepp I even showed my friend my car controlling super powers

    I wish i had you in my childhood🤣🤣

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @Gramart said:

    @PieSenPie said:
    Yepp I even showed my friend my car controlling super powers

    I imagine the enthusiasm while showing that! 😁

    🤣🤣🤣🤣 can’t imagine

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @ggin said:
    I was scared to fall off the planet

    Fall off where?
    Can’t imagine how did you hang on the planet?

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @SuperFrizz 5CQ2W said:
    I was afraid thinking I could found several snakes running under my bed.

    Childs fears, mine was when i turn the lights off a ghost will chase me 🤣🤣🤣, i was ready to fight with him all the time.

  • Fizz_Code_FRERG
    Fizz_Code_FRERG Posts: 289 ✭✭

    That alien exists

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @ttify said:
    When I was a kid, my mom told me that shaking a can of soda would make it explode. I always thought it meant a dangerous, bomb-like explosion and handled cans very carefully. Then I saw a kid shake a can vigorously at summer camp on purpose and realised the explosion was just a strong fizzy soda stream erupting into the air!

    Can’t imagine how disappointed you were at that moment.

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @Ciroxa said:

    @ttify said:
    When I was a kid, my mom told me that shaking a can of soda would make it explode. I always thought it meant a dangerous, bomb-like explosion and handled cans very carefully. Then I saw a kid shake a can vigorously at summer camp on purpose and realised the explosion was just a strong fizzy soda stream erupting into the air!

    Haha that’s such a classic childhood moment! 😂 It’s funny how our imaginations take things way further than intended. You must’ve been thinking you were handling live grenades all that time. Imagine the shock at camp — like, “Wait… that’s it?!” 🍾💥🫧

    🤣🤣 exactly

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    I don’t remember a thing of mine but yesterday i watched a video of a little girl kissing a frog and waiting to become a prince, poor girl she was disappointed 😅

  • ttify
    ttify Posts: 846 ✭✭

    @Linkin said:

    @ttify said:
    When I was a kid, my mom told me that shaking a can of soda would make it explode. I always thought it meant a dangerous, bomb-like explosion and handled cans very carefully. Then I saw a kid shake a can vigorously at summer camp on purpose and realised the explosion was just a strong fizzy soda stream erupting into the air!

    Can’t imagine how disappointed you were at that moment.

    It actually made me relieved lol. I had been handling sodas really carefully. I mean, I still do because I don't want to make a fizzy mess

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @Fizz_Code_FRERG said:
    That alien exists

    😬 i know,
    right?!

  • Linkin
    Linkin Posts: 307 ✭✭

    @ttify said:

    @Linkin said:

    @ttify said:
    When I was a kid, my mom told me that shaking a can of soda would make it explode. I always thought it meant a dangerous, bomb-like explosion and handled cans very carefully. Then I saw a kid shake a can vigorously at summer camp on purpose and realised the explosion was just a strong fizzy soda stream erupting into the air!

    Can’t imagine how disappointed you were at that moment.

    It actually made me relieved lol. I had been handling sodas really carefully. I mean, I still do because I don't want to make a fizzy mess

    You don’t need to be that careful, but this is courageous to keep drinking soda knowing it might explode in your face.

  • G3ck0
    G3ck0 Posts: 4
    I thought there were sock eating gremlins, my mom always blamed stuff getting lost on them. I never believed in Santa Claus or tooth fairy but it took an embarrassing amount of time for it to sink in that the sock gremlins don't exist.
  • Fizz_Code_FRERG
    Fizz_Code_FRERG Posts: 289 ✭✭

    @G3ck0 said:
    I thought there were sock eating gremlins, my mom always blamed stuff getting lost on them. I never believed in Santa Claus or tooth fairy but it took an embarrassing amount of time for it to sink in that the sock gremlins don't exist.

    Hope it was Gizmo the cute gremlins