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you were a really weird kid, you know.
May. 29th, 2005 09:01 pmOh my goodness, I am laughing so hard--this is brilliant. I was looking for writing prompts and stumbled across this website via two different random blogs: I Used To Believe--all about the really random and weird beliefs people had when they were young. C'mon, you know you had some weird ones. I still have some weird ones. GO THERE, it's hilarious! Click on "best," though, because a lot are repetitive and dull.
Some of my favorites:
When I was about 6, my mother told me I could be anything when I got older. I told her I wanted to be a dinosaur or the color orange. I am 21 now with a math degree and and I still destine to be "orange!"
When I was about 4, I believed that if you scrub a vinyl record hard enough, long enough, with enough soap, you could erase what was on it and record your own songs there instead. I was never quite able to do this successfully, (this was before recordable CD's, or any CD's actually), but I did render several vinyl records completely unplayable.
I used to be scared of the BBC 2 logo, which was two brown parallel lines in a 2 shape, because I thought they were question marks. I didn't know the question and I didn't know the answer.
When I was young, I really used to believe that 'R.I.P.' (on a gravestone) meant 'Return If Possible.'
And this one, for all you Willy fiends: I think I literally laughed for two minutes straight. I nearly cried I was laughing so hard.
I had a strange fear that if I closed my eyes in the bathtub, William Shakespeare would come up through the drain and kill me. I knew his name, but I had no idea who he was, so I just naturally assumed he was some sort of bathtub vampire.
In conclusion: Go read the best of this site. Go on. They're hilarious.
In other news, I went to dinner at Dr. Madsen's with Anna and Erin tonight--it was awesome and funny and with terrifically good food, as par the course, and afterwards we walked outside and Erin Raney was in her backyard. Which is right next to Madsen's, and I had no idea. So that was nice, I got to say hello to her (and was reminded internally that I must start dancing again for my own sanity). Parentals, if you're reading this, she says best wishes to both of you.
Some of my favorites:
When I was about 6, my mother told me I could be anything when I got older. I told her I wanted to be a dinosaur or the color orange. I am 21 now with a math degree and and I still destine to be "orange!"
When I was about 4, I believed that if you scrub a vinyl record hard enough, long enough, with enough soap, you could erase what was on it and record your own songs there instead. I was never quite able to do this successfully, (this was before recordable CD's, or any CD's actually), but I did render several vinyl records completely unplayable.
I used to be scared of the BBC 2 logo, which was two brown parallel lines in a 2 shape, because I thought they were question marks. I didn't know the question and I didn't know the answer.
When I was young, I really used to believe that 'R.I.P.' (on a gravestone) meant 'Return If Possible.'
And this one, for all you Willy fiends: I think I literally laughed for two minutes straight. I nearly cried I was laughing so hard.
I had a strange fear that if I closed my eyes in the bathtub, William Shakespeare would come up through the drain and kill me. I knew his name, but I had no idea who he was, so I just naturally assumed he was some sort of bathtub vampire.
In conclusion: Go read the best of this site. Go on. They're hilarious.
In other news, I went to dinner at Dr. Madsen's with Anna and Erin tonight--it was awesome and funny and with terrifically good food, as par the course, and afterwards we walked outside and Erin Raney was in her backyard. Which is right next to Madsen's, and I had no idea. So that was nice, I got to say hello to her (and was reminded internally that I must start dancing again for my own sanity). Parentals, if you're reading this, she says best wishes to both of you.
