Things that did not make sense to you as a child
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What are some things that just didn't make sense to you when you were a kid.Cheque Books[/b]I remember I once asked my mom:me: How much does those cheque books cost?mom: $20me: So you just buy the book and write the cheques?mom: yes.me: So, for $20, you can buy anything?I don't remember her response, but it probably wasn't very good because it confused the shit out of me for a long time. I remember really wanting a bank account when the Nintendo hit the shelves so I could buy a cheque book and thus a NES.The Expression "Time Flys"[/b]I remember being in grade one and looking at a Time magazine (probably one of my earliest memories). There was an advertisement which featured a bunch of watches with wings and it said "Time flys" somewhere. I never really understood that phrase until I was a teenager, and I had a really big epiphany.
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I thought that everytime that you bought something, you deserved to get money back; even if you paid with the exact change.
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I had this one for years, even though it is real simple.
Don't all days have 24 hours in them, except in the fall when clocks go back?
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Back to the topic at hand: paying taxes was a big mystery to me when I was a kid.
It wouldn't be so confusing if people didn't simplify the actual definition. It's not the "longest" day. It's the day with the largest amount of sunlit hours (i.e. the interval sunrise-sunset is at its maximum).
french kissing (only in France?)
analog clocks...(if we have digital and it is so much easier to tell time that way, why do we need hands?)
Ms. Pacman. (icegrill)
wine and beer (it tastes yukky, why do grownups drink it?)
why wile e coyote always brought from ACME
and for a long time i was convinced that dogs were the boys and cats were the girls.
cd's(i remember i threw my first cd on the turntable)
Whocaressssssssssss... We just wanna know... Do you believe in Lizzard people??????????
The people advocating for Santa and God are infinitely more convincing than the Lizard People contingent, and they didn't win me over....
Dude..........
The lizards are watching.........
that my doctor was going to take me away from my parents
we were at park one day and this couple was horsing around - the guy was pretending that he was going to throw the girl into the pond and she was yelling and kicking and so on. it freaked me right out. i didn't understand why no one would help, i lost my shit and was screaming at my parents to help her.
i could see that the numeric pad had letters on it, but still couldn't figure out how that whole thing worked even after numerous explanations from my parents.
Cosign
and they still don't make any sense to me.
I used to ask my Dad the same thing. Children don't quite understand that when we say "day" we mean daylight.
Ha! That's why I don't usually post in the "record finds" threads...wrote this laundry-list of some cool stuff I found at the convention last weekend, and by the time I'm through, off into thin air it went.
When i was little my older sisters told me that when you had your tonsils out you changed from a boy into a girl or vise-versa; that they had both once been little boys before having their tonsils removed; and that I was going to have to have mine removed.
Absolute, sheer, terror.
i recall getting into some dirt (literally) as a kid an my mom telling me that i was so filthy i was going to be cleaned with a "brillo" pad. not knowing what that word meant, i understood it as "gorilla" pad.
i was shook
word me too.
I used to wonder how people were supposed to call hooked on phonics, their phone number was 1-800 ABCDEFG.
Not exactly the same thing but I've never been able to expain the concept of "call waiting" to a deaf person
dude fuck a gorilla pad I'd be shook enough getting cleaned with a brillo pad.
TORTURE MUTHAFUCKAH WHUT!
i think my mom hatted me...
Oh...another thing. People being Double-Jointed. I had NO FUCKING CLUE what that meant as a kid, but for some reason i got the idea that it allowed people to fit into tight places by making themselves all compact and $hit.
I think i likened it to my transformers.
I never understood why they laughed at me until years later.
In spite of having cats and dogs worked out I did think that horses were male cows.