I did a stone cold stunner on my friend when we were just kids... he broke his nose

Hi cologne nice to see you back hope you are well

Thanks Marguerita. I'm fine.

From childhood thunder has always scared me. One night when I was about 6/7 and in bed there was a real bad storm and I was terrified and called out for Mum, she told me that when I heard a plane I'd know the storm would be over. So after that I used to listen for a plane - for a long time I believed she meant a plane was sent up to fly around to let everyone know the storm had ended lol. I still hate thunder but I love that sound we can sometimes hear when a plane is at a certain height and it's a peaceful droning sound

Also when I was small I used to watch Mum hanging out the washing. I did it for her one day and when I went indoors I said to her no one will want to marry me, she asked me why I thought that and I said because I don't know which way up I'm supposed to hang the washing

The silliest thing I believed when I was young was that people over 20 were old, then people over 30, then people over 40, then over 50, then over 60..... now I reckon that 70 is quite a young age

I used to think a light bulb was called a light bob up until I was in high school

When told babies grew in your tummy, then came out of a hole, I thought they burst out of the belly button!   

I thought mushrooms grew in the dark and went back down during daylight. When our friend's asked us to go mushroom picking, I said "Oh so we'll have to go at night?" all good and well except I was a newly married woman.

When I was young my older sister told me red indians lived in the electricity substation at the end of the road and if I made a noise as I passed it they would come out and get me.   I crept passed that substation for years.:-(

Oooo I have a list of them   I was very gullible

• If you sat on cold door steps you'd get chilblains.
• Thunder was God moving his furniture and lightening was him switching on the light.
• If you ate a pip from an apple, an apple tree would grow in your stomach
• Chewing gum would get wrapped round your bowels and kill you so you weren't allowed to swallow it
• Don't walk on the cracks on the pavement or it would swallow you
• The Best = if you dug in the garden deep enough you'd get all the way to Australia

I'll have you know those monsters under my bed were REAL.

When I was about 4 my mum told me my dog had to go to hospital but would be back soon.  I kept asking periodically when she was coming back.  I think I was about 12 when the penny dropped   Doggy hospitals are obviously run by incompetent buffoons

i can remember asking my big brother what public meant    he said only scottish people allowed   i believed that well into my teens

Ooooh, these I can relate to

Oh and I asked my dad who sung "The Power of Love" by Jennifer Rush (can't remember what age I was but I was very short) and he told me the name of a local nutter and I went round telling everyone I loved that song by the local nutter

oh noty lol you minded me  when we were little and i told my teacher  we had a coal fire but burned dross lol  ( i know now that was old shoes n coats n stuff )

PMSL.  Did everyone eye you suspiciously when you offered to take their coats when they visited?

Waaaay too many of the above are familiar  another that immediately springs to mind was If you pick your nose you'll pull your brains out!

When I was in primary school yonks ago..we all believed that a witch lived in the back playground, of course it was the janitor in the basement,but he still had loads of silver bins there..Long before plastic wheely bins.

Arggh! that is how the Ancient Egyptians removed the brains from the skulls of their dead before mummifaction,a hook implement up the nostrils.

My older sister had a darlek living in the air vent in her bedroom and a red devil living under her bed.

We didn't go in there much.

Thank feck for divans...

Vampires....never went to bed without my crucifix

How things change ... my daughter would be delighted if she was visited by a vampire. Well just the one really. Bloody Twilight saga...

I take it she never saw the evil Christopher Lee with his bloodshot eyes


You would never have got that as a poster in Jackie!

Nope ... and of course The Vampire Diaries isn't helping. She thinks all vampires are hot young men.  I've banned her from watching Trueblood. 

The thing is in my day even the hot young men were nasty vampires. I remember David Soul in Salem's Lot and Keifer Sutherland in The Lost Boys.

I know...I'd be sleeping with the windows open

My pal's mum told us that you could check to see if you had worms by putting a bit of bread on your tongue and waiting to see if a worm came up your throat and nabbed it. I used to sneak into the pantry and stand there cringing for ten minutes with a bit of pan breid on the end of my tongue 

Slinki, that made me laugh out loud.

I'd laugh too but the bread would fall off my tongue

  My mum used to tell us we'd get worms if we ate too much sugar, but I much prefer your version.

Actually - this is really stupid. I grew up near the Carmarthen Bay Power station on the South Wales coast near Llanelli. It was so big you could see it's three huge chimneys from north Devon, obviously employing most of the local population. We moved there when I was 5 and for ages I was under the impression that only 3 men worked there - one to "work" each chimney.  What a noob as my daughter would say....
http://web.mac.com/byronwillia.../Carmarthen_Bay.html