When I was little - some things I thought - that are not so -

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05-14-2018, 04:49 AM

#41

NZquilter

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I thought the ATM was free money. I remember telling my Dad to stop going to work everyday and just use the ATM.

05-14-2018, 04:56 AM

#42

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Originally Posted by Kitsie

When you put money in a parking meter it rolled down the tube, then rolled all the way to the police station! Doesn't it?

Hahaha! The cops just sit there waiting for coins to come through!

05-14-2018, 05:28 AM

#43

Clarice29

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I was very unhappy when I found out the school year was longer then summer vacation. I did not care for school. It interfered with my plans.

05-14-2018, 05:44 AM

#44

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I was often told if I made an ugly face it might freeze that way.

I believed life would be perfect once I got school over with and was free. I always felt like school was more of a a confinement/torture than an opportunity to learn.... probably why I home educated my own three children.

I believed that everything adults said was true. (HA!) The day the neighbor kid told me there was no Santa, the bottom fell out of my world! Took me a long time to get over that. Hence, we always told our kids that Santa was just pretend.

05-14-2018, 07:21 AM

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I was pretty surprised when I saw a nun in a nightgown.

I was most disappointed when I wen to see a spring producing water in some rocks. It wasn't at all coil shaped.

05-14-2018, 07:52 AM

#46

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Originally Posted by sewingsuz

When I was taking care of my grandson when he was little, I would always pick up the phone and pretend I was talking to the boggie man and ask him if he had any candy. Grandson would listen to me. I thought that way he would never be afraid of that boggie man.

What a good grandma you are! That was very kind of you; some of the stories here told to kids were kind of cruel

05-14-2018, 10:13 AM

#47

Doggramma

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TV was just coming out when I was little. I felt really bad for years that our family was nothing like the TV familes.

05-14-2018, 10:43 AM

#48

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Did the principal of your elementary school have a spanking machine in his/her closet? We were absolutely certain that ours did! It was rumored to be some sort of rotary contraption with leather straps on it.

05-14-2018, 10:59 AM

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bearisgray

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I did not think clergy or teachers smoked! I was so disillusioned to find out that some did!

05-14-2018, 11:13 AM

#50

leonf

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No smoking nurses wither, bearisgray.

I grew up kinda on a farm and dad was a mechanic. I thought everyone knew how to take care of their own cars and repair garages were only for rich folk.