Young and very dumb.

[DaddysMonkey]

..... Hi. *waves*

 

I was talking with a customer the other day about our childhoods , and how differently people are raised even though they can be so similar. We were talking about myths and legends we believed as kids.. (like in grade school I thought Bigfoot was real).

 

I’m the type of person to start putting spins on topics to keep conversations going with customers so I’m not just dying in awkward silence. I started thinking about other things I believed as a kid , and how stupid / silly some of those things were.

 

For example ;

 

My parents were .... well we will call them “relaxed”. (Basically absent parents.) My step dad was super young , and my mother was constantly trying to relive her younger years and never wanted to grow up. So what did they do almost every day ? Smoke tons of weed. I was about grade school age when I started to notice they were locking themselves in their bedroom for about an hour or two at night.

Being a very curious and nosey monkey , I would stick my face in the crack of the door to see what they were doing or if I could hear anything. I would occasionally hear some coughing , but mostly giggling. I would always *sniff sniff sniff* under the door , there was a really strange smell that would waft under the door. In my stupid kid brain , I thought they were having sex. TnT immediately grossed out , I didn’t really wanna know what was going on anymore. But I would constantly smell a very skunky weird scent when they locked themselves away , so that’s what sex has got to smell like right ?

 

Fast forward years later , and I smoke weed for the first time. I’ve never had such a stupid and hilarious revelation as this........ *dies internally* I exhaled the weed smoke and my eyes went like this : O-O

 

For the longest time I thought the smell of sex , was the smell of my parents smoking weed in their room. I felt so stupid , but was also relieved I didn’t *smell* my parents have sex. LOL.

 

Well.... if anyone else is up for feeling stupid ^-^ what did you believe as a youngin?

Edited March 30, 2021 by DaddysMonkey

[Lollipox]

I thought "Heaven" was literally in the clouds, because that's how it's always been depicted in imagery.

So on my first plane ride as we went over the cloud layer, I kept asking my parents "is this Heaven? What about over there? Is that Heaven? Where's Heaven then? Over which Country?"

I woulda been about idk 6-7yo maybe.

[DaddysMonkey]

As mentioned before , my mother is a dentist.

 

She would often talk about work when she was home , I feel like that’s pretty normal for parents to do. She had used the term “butterfly needle” before when talking about giving people numbing stuff , or shots of medicine in their mouths ect. I had asked her before , what is a butterfly needle ? She usually gave me pretty vague answers my entire life , so she said “it’s a needle.”

 

Figuring my older sister might know what it was or why it was called that , I asked. Big mistake. Not only are older siblings mean and like to scare their younger siblings.... my sister was one of one. Torture me any chance she had. So what does she tell me ?

 

“Butterfly needles come from butterflies. You know how bees have stingers and swarm and attack you ? Butterflies have big huge stingers that will pierce through you and KILL YOU. Butterflies you see out in nature have already had their stingers plucked so doctors can use them , so you never know if one still has their stinger. Always watch out for butterflies.”

 

Obviously now that I’m grown , I know it’s not true. However ...... I am still deathly afraid of moths and butterflies. I used to have mental breakdowns and cry whenever a moth or butterfly came around me.

 

Ahh , good times.....

[Guest maya_bbg]

I had to jump onto this because I love 'young and dumb' stories lol

 

so anyway, as a child i was obsessed with wanting to be big and tall. Like i'd get offended if someone called me a little girl (ironic looking back at that lol but fun fact even in 'little space' I throw tantrums about wanting to be tall so that's on character development lol)

 

anyway~ there was this guy in school (an older kid, looking back i'd say 12 or so and i was like 5 or 6) and he liked coming around and giving all the children his candy and sweets and all that and we'd play games and whoever wins gets to sit on his lap and tease all the other kids (all sounds very wrong typing it out now ahem) but anyway one day, i had won and I was like "no, you sit on my lap this time, you give us candy everyday you deserve it" (or sth naive and pure like that lol)

and he laughed and I was like why you laughing

and he's like cuz you're small i'll crush you i can't sit on your lap

and fast forward a lot of back and forth arguing, i ended up having a full tantrum (crying and yelling and all) in the middle of the playground about how I'm a big girl and he can totally sit on my lap and nth would happen.

 

Worse of all, my mother worked as a co-teacher there and she was on patrol and the other kids had to bring her over and be like control your child we don't know what she wants and my mother (as she tells it) couldn't even understand what was going on from the other kids lol she was very confused to come and see a young me crying so hard.

 

if you're wondering: did they have to make him sit on your lap to shut you up? you'll be wondering correct, I literally had to be shown for like two seconds that he indeed couldn't sit on my lap because i was smol. Did that stop the crying? no sir, i was sad the whole day because of that and everyday since then ( and until i finally dropped it) i'd pout and refuse to have his candy or play games because in my mind both him and my mother made me look smol (and I wasnt! I was a big girl, remember?) in front of the other kids...

[GrampyP]

Neat story, perceptions matter and if change is needed, gently is better than abruptly.

[beanbean]

lol remember when were little my dads family would always say if you put salt on a birds tail you could catch it.i believed that for the longest tim 🤣

[DaddysMonkey]

35 minutes ago, beanbean said:

lol remember when were little my dads family would always say if you put salt on a birds tail you could catch it.i believed that for the longest tim 🤣

What the heck does salt on a tail do ? Lol , I’m not sure why but this made me crack up. 

[beanbean]

well the joke was if you are close enuff to put salt on it tail you could just get it lol i figured that out later 

[Barney048]

Man I have to weigh in here ... This is about a friend of mine, not me. She lost her virginity when she was like 15-16 years old , and the only time before that when her boyfriend saw a naked female was when he was at a friend's house and they were watching some trans porn. So when she got undressed he was freaked out because there was no penis in sight xD ... She sat him down and had a talk with him about how boys have penises and women vaginas. Then she also showed him some regular porn to reassure him hahaha ... When she told me about that I almost peed myself from laughter hahahaha 

 

It's not about me , but I just find it so hilarious that I had to share. I think that things like that happen a lot, because parents avoid talking with their children about these things. 

[DaddysMonkey]

I appreciate this story so much Barney ! Hehehe…. Was legit cracking up snorting laughing at work with Tanner. 
 

I guess the saying goes , don’t believe everything you see on tv ?  

[beanbean]

ahh to be youn and naive again ,those were the days .now i am just naive lol

[LittleStarLight]

I used to think forest trolls were real. I heard my parent say something about them as a joke, but I took it seriously and thought for the longest time that trolls lived in the forest and would take little kids. Oi. Haha

When I was in kindergarten I started a rumor that I was a vampire. Lots of kids believed me so much that I actually started to believe my own story. Oh to be a kid again, wondering if I really might be a vampire haha

 

[beanbean]

lol those were the days we would play wany where sewer creeks. play in gullys with broken bottles , have pinecone fights .throw iires at eachother ,hospitals vists happend a lot lol