Dumbest Thing You Believed

[BCClone]

Getting your right ear pierced meant you were 100% gay, but getting just the left ear pierced meant you were straight. You spent three hours in front of the mirror at Claire’s intensely studying anatomy like your entire future depended on it. (Spoiler: It didn't matter, I still ended up with frost tipped hair and received my membership card ten years later).

I think the staring into the mirror at Claire’s for three hours should have been a bigger flag of your preference.

 

[CHim]

that lance armstrong wasn't on drugs.

My new favorite golf quote for a putt is to aim on a Lance Armstrong line...one ball left.

 

[rosshm16]

Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were just on a little Creatine.

Androstenedione!

 

[TXCyclones]

I believed if you showered during a thunderstorm, you would get struck by lightning.

This is/was actually a valid concern (in a way) but far less so now. Because houses were built w/ copper pipe plumbing the concern was that if you were in the shower/bath that a lighting strike could electrocute you as the current carried through the pipes (and ultimately to the porcelain/enamel coated iron tubs. There were a small handful of examples of electric shock related to this in central IA back in the 70's and prior.

 

[beentherebefore]

That it mattered whether Miller Genuine Draft was a better beer than Budweiser.

 

[MeowingCows]

Getting your right ear pierced meant you were 100% gay, but getting just the left ear pierced meant you were straight. You spent three hours in front of the mirror at Claire’s intensely studying anatomy like your entire future depended on it. (Spoiler: It didn't matter, I still ended up with frost tipped hair and received my membership card ten years later).

Left is right, right is wrong!

...until they both amount to the right side anyway

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I thought a crick was a smaller creek

 

[Cydewayz]

That Santa came to the mall for a full month right before Christmas.

LOTS to unpack with Santa. I remember that same thought...but then those Santa's worked for the REAL one...but then i remember having this big question of "wait...i see toy drives and things for needy kids" and thought Santa was actually pretty crappy if he was giving me and kids like me cool stuff and neglecting the poor, lol.

 

[Bipolarcy]

I believed it for maybe five minutes when I was 5 years old. My older sister and I were walking home from school when a gnat flew up my nose several different times. When I complained about it, she told me gnats only fly up 5-year-olds' noses.

 

[CyCoug]

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.

When I was a kid I was taught that alcohol was the devil’s brew. One time when I was on an airplane they served sandwiches as the meal (back in the good old days). They also included grey poupon mustard that proudly advertised it was “made with white wine”.

I pointed out to my mom but she didn’t understand what I was trying to communicate and I watched in horror as she put it on her sandwhich and started eating.

 

[cyclones500]

This thread makes me ponder what dumb things I still believe (and maybe don't realize it)

 

[cyclones500]

When I was a kid I was taught that alcohol was the devil’s brew. One time when I was on an airplane they served sandwiches as the meal (back in the good old days). They also included grey poupon mustard that proudly advertised it was “made with white wine”.

I pointed out to my mom but she didn’t understand what I was trying to communicate and I watched in horror as she put it on her sandwhich and started eating.

Apparently, Grey Poupon is the true devil's brew!

 

[CtownCyclone]

When I was a kid I was taught that alcohol was the devil’s brew. One time when I was on an airplane they served sandwiches as the meal (back in the good old days). They also included grey poupon mustard that proudly advertised it was “made with white wine”.

I pointed out to my mom but she didn’t understand what I was trying to communicate and I watched in horror as she put it on her sandwhich and started eating.

 

[crs8975]

The interesting thing about electric fences from my childhood.... No matter what, if your city friends asked you if the fence was on, and you said no, they almost ALWAYS had to go over and touch it. They couldn't just take your word for it. And of course, the fence was DEFINITELY on.

Of all the times we'd get ourselves to touch one, I think only once was the fence actually on. Got a good jolt from that one though! haha

 

[crs8975]

As a byproduct of being a kid in SE Iowa in the 80s...

The Hawkeyes are the good guys and the Cyclones are the bad guys.

I had a UCLA sweatshirt back in early 90s timeframe. I have no idea where I got it from, probably my aunt in CA?! Regardless, I would wear it to school and get so much hate. At that time I never understood why because I didn't watch football at that age. But looking back I'm glad to know I was unknowingly trolling all the hawk fans in Northeast Iowa. *pats self on back *

 

[hoosman]

People married for life. There were no known divorces in my school, neighborhood, or family from 1965-1976.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

People married for life. There were no known divorces in my school, neighborhood, or family from 1965-1976.

Divorce was rare in the those days, when I graduated high school in 1980, out of the 34 kids in my class, only two did not have their biological parents in their home. One's parents had divorced and the other lost his mom to cancer. Totally different days than today.

 

[cytor]

I used to get my younger brother on this one:
"I'll give you 4 of these copper coins for your one silver colored coin."

 

[MeadForMyHorses]

When I was little (really little) I assumed that all that music on the radio came from live bands at the radio station.

Close but maybe not quite fitting this category, I bet I was 16 or older before I realized that offices or apartments that start with a '2' were on the second floor, 3 on third, etc...

 

[CyCoug]

I guess another dumb thing I believed was how I was going to tell my NBA coach I wouldn’t be able to play in Sunday games.

I grew up in a very religious household and both working and playing sports on Sundays was a big no-no.

Since I was 100% destined to play in the NBA that upcoming conversation with my future coach really stressed me out. Even though I had my four year collegiate career (at Iowa State) to complete first.