As a child I use to think...

I could never be a teacher when I grew up because I didn't know everything

And, of course, that my mum had 'eyes in the back of her head' [ grin]

...if I put sat on the edge of the bed and put my feet on the floor, the bogeyman would grab my ankles

...I could grow my hair really long like Rapunzel (never reached the middle of my back. I always got bored!)

...mixing shampoos and bubble baths together would make magic potions

If I swallowed a fruit pip I'd get appendicitis. I'm still wary even now.

And yes, the ankles being grabbed from under the bed ! I never sat on the edge for that reason. One mighty bounce into the bed.

Soaking rose petals in water would produce that magnificent perfume my really rich aunt used to wear.

That I could fly. I really believed it and used to dream it constantly.
It was somehow tied up with Peter Pan.

- if a lift cable broke, I could save myself by jumping up and down so that it might hit the bottom while I was in the air!

- that if an earwig crawled into your ear it would be impossible to get it out and it would burrow into my brain.

Yes, did the soaking of Rose petals!
Thought I would be able to fly and was terrified of the bogeyman!! ( please tell me there isn't one )!!

That if I swallowed chewing gum it would wrap around all my internal organs and kill me.

That if I swallowed an apple pip I'd have an apple tree growing inside me, which would eventually start growing out of my ears.

Yes, I used to do the rose petals in water thing, like PRINTMISS. The results were always a sludgy, stinking mess, but I kept trying

Luckygirl I used to think that too about lifts. What amuses me is how late I came to realise some of these things weren't true. somehow if you're told or believe them when you're a child, you'll never question it until you're really given cause too.

that lightning can go round corners ... even under the bed!

That Fry's Turkish delight was full of "yeast and promise"

That all cats were girls and all dogs boys

Talc and 'perfume' made bath cubes ( where did they go?)

My father was the fount of all knowledge, I was about 12 when I realised if he didn't know the answer he would make it up!

I thought I was the only one who thought that about cats and dogs, Pippa !

I thought that Snowfire chilblain ointment would set my feet on fire. I used to become hysterical when the little box appeared!

That the Daleks would come to get me! Spent my time watching Dr Who from behind the sofa.?

Thought you had to water flowers and the leaves of plants until I found out about roots.
Though I was a fluent reader when my reading book was The Three Billy Goats Gruff...fab.
Never could work why the green hill needed a city wall ( there is a green hill far away without a city wall. )
Thought God gave you babies if he loved you and thought you were good enough.

I thought you had a baby if you kissed a boy (probably why I was a late starter re boyfriends!)
And I really did believe that if your skin looked yellow when a buttercup was held against it, it proved that you liked butter.

That I owned a horse and the school field was a ranch.
That the earth had been taken over by aliens who were living in tunnels under the street and could walk through walls: and my best friend and me were the only people who could fight them (gave me nightmares that one)
That our dog understood how I felt when I got told off.

Yes,definitely the feet under the bed thing,I'm still frightened of the dark,
People really walked as fast as they did in the old news reels.
My Grans bed was very high,it wasn't it was normal hight,(I think)

My brother used to think our father ran on batteries as he never saw him in bed! Dad was still up when we went to bed and up and dressed before we got up.

..that my Godmother pushed her hat-pin through her head . I would cringe every time she picked it up.

By the way, the grammar in the statement at the beginning is incorrect. it should read. ".....I used to think." Set a good example, Gransnet!

... that one day I would grow up and know everything ... never happened, of course

My godmother had a wooden leg..she said she did( and would knock on a wooden chair leg) to prove it.
My mum had an eye in the back of her head....mums always have eyes in the back of their heads she said ,and she always caught me out doing wrong.
If I sat on table the wise one (mum) said I would never get married ...little did she know am now on number 3