Dumbest Thing You Believed

[KCy]

That adults were smart and responsible.

 

[madguy30]

No joke, is that not true?

That line is from a dad that wants everyone to STFU. That being said, I've used it a few times.

If it's above water, the noise isn't doing anything to the fish.

I think it may a little but movement will do more than anything especially for really clear water.

It isn't like talking while fishing in rapids/pools will do anything though.

 

[StClone]

As a kid there was a cute isolated pink house in the country and every kid believed Santa Claus lived there. Why, no one could say. And the car dome light turned on at night while moving as illegal origins is interesting. Could it have been a real thing?

 

[PineClone]

I believed that there was a "God" until my parents made me go to Lutheran confirmation classes during summer break. Didn't take long for me to figure out it was all a bunch of BS.

 

[BWRhasnoAC]

That justice still exists.

 

[trevn]

That Matt Campbell enjoyed the food scene in Ames.

 

[mramseyISU]

I have to frame this a little. My great grandparents more or less raised me from the time I was in diapers until I got to middle school anytime I wasn't in school during the work day. My grandpa liked to see what he could get us kids to believe and would sometime really stretch the truth. My hometown had a city cop who could have made it on my 600lb life or whatever that show about the gastric bypass surgeon is. Grandpa used to tell me that he had to carry a stick of butter in his pocket to grease up the door so he could get in and out of the police cruiser. I'm pretty sure I believed him until like 8th grade.

 

[AllInForISU]

Marilyn Manson had some ribs removed...so ummm....

Honestly, the fact that spread through seemingly every school in America before the internet is astonishing.

 

[JK4ISU]

That when my dad sent me to find a crescent wrench, he actually needed one.

 

[Cyched]

As a little kid, “don’t drink and drive” didn’t mean you weren’t allowed to drink anything in the car. Mom drinking a Diet Pepsi wasn’t illegal.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I'm in my 40's and I still believe the being quiet while fishing thing :shrug:

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

When I was a kid I believed the anti gravity chamber from the movie Armageddon was possible.

 

[MeanDean]

When I was a kid I knew poison would kill you, from TV and the cartoons - the bottles with the skull and crossbones.

So one day about 1st grade I get this itching on my arm and I'm thinking it's a bunch of mosquito bites. It keeps getting worse and I show it to my mom and dad and they both recognize it, and tell me it's poison ivy.

I was kind of shocked how unaffected they were to learn that one of their (maybe?) beloved children was about to die!

 

[cycloner29]

My grandpa told me if I ever chewed tobacco, I’d better tie my pants legs shut. I did for about a week, but it just made me jittery.

His saying may have held true if I had eaten a whole bag of Lay’s Olestra Chips.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

That quicksand was going to be a real problem in my life as I got older.

 

[Bestaluckcy]

I was told the first sign of insanity was hair growing from a person’s knuckles. Closely related to that was the second sign, which of course, was looking for hair growing from a person’s knuckles.

 

[AuH2O]

That quicksand was going to be a real problem in my life as I got older.

As a child in the mid- to late 80s quicksand and satanic cults were clearly the leading threats out there.

 

[Sigmapolis]

That jet fuel melts steel beams.

 

[NorthCyd]

That god would send me to hell if I masturbated but saying 50 Hail Mary's made it all better.

 

[SerenityNow]

Courtesy of my dad and brother convincing me, chocolate milk came from Brown Swiss cows.