What did you believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?

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Strict_Caregiver5575@reddit

That my bald dad lost his hair by walking through a low doorframe… I was very young at the time but still.

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Dimac99@reddit

That reminds me, my dad had a vest with a perfectly circular hole in it and he told us that was where he was shot by "the Mexican bandit".

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Aggie_Smythe@reddit

I don’t think I believed it for long, but when I was 3 or 4, I thought that all the actors on TV were people who lived inside the TV.

I thought that when the telly was off, they were in there at the back, resting and bored.

I’d go round the back of the telly, which was always off all day long, and I would talk to them.

Sometimes I’d ask them to put on a programme I liked, or I’d ask them to make a story turn out a certain way.

Sometimes I was just worried they were bored doing nothing, which was something that happened to me a lot (undiagnosed ADHD), and I wanted to keep them company.

I did wonder where they kept all their many different outfits, though, and I was puzzled that they never talked back to me in response.

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I also thought along these lines and probably around the same age. I always planned one day to take a hammer to the TV to let Aladdin out so we could live happily ever after (hoping Jasmine wouldn't come out of the TV, too).

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avareeves@reddit

I know someone who did this when she was younger, she'd go up to the telly and pat it whilst having conversations with it to make sure theyre okay and not bored

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Aggie_Smythe@reddit

Lol, and there was me, thinking this was definitely just a very weird “me” thing!

Evidently it isn’t just me!

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BornInPoverty@reddit

Dogs and cats are the same species, dogs are the males and cats the females and that’s why they fight so much.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

It's a bit sad that you grew up thinking that it was normal for males and females to fight.

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moubliepas@reddit

Yeah nobody else seems to find this disturbing?!

I mean, we grew up with dogs and cats and they didn't fight, because if you're letting your pets live in fear you're a terrible pet owner, just train them. But if fighting is so normal that it seems like a biological inevitability, I suppose training the pets not to fight might be a bit of a lost cause

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Reddit_user81015@reddit

I also thought this, but apparently had some idea that males and females made babies 'cause that's what I thought foxes were!

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Matrixblackhole@reddit

I thought school INSET days were actually 'insect' days where kids bought insects to school, lol.

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Queen_of_London@reddit

When I was a kid they were Baker days. (Named after the education secretary who started them).

So that meant the teachers stayed home and baked. But they never brought us any cakes, the bastards.

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DarkNightAlpaca@reddit

We used to call them Baker days… honestly thought we’d get baked goods on those days! 😂

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pajamakitten@reddit

Same. We called them staff days 99% of the time but my headteacher called them INSET days once in assembly. I misheard and thought we would spend a day learning about insects. My mum was really annoyed when she turned up at school to find out of was a staff day instead.

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SeverusSnape__@reddit

When I was in school, they were always called "teacher training days" and then all of a sudden like, almost immediately after I left school, they were being referred to as inset days, and people just called them that as if that's what they always were and I've always felt a bit miffed by that.

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need_a_poopoo@reddit

Huh, my kids still call them teacher training days, today is my first time hearing about inset days

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Fickle_Acanthaceae17@reddit

That cats and dogs were the same species except cats were the females and dogs were the males. I blame that stupid CatDog show on Cartoon network

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_diseas3_@reddit

A friend's dad had a golf trophy and it said his handicap. I said that I didn't know his dad was handicapped. They had a good laugh 😂

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farfetchedfrank@reddit

That the channel tunnel was clear and surrounded by visible sea life.

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Current-Wasabi9975@reddit

I thought you drove through the channel tunnel

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Remarkable_Ad_788@reddit

What?? We don't?

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homelaberator@reddit

You drive onto a train and the train takes your car across. Bit like a ferry.

The reason is that it's far safer and a lot cheaper to build a tunnel that's safe for a train than a tunnel that's safe for hundreds of cars and lorries.

I was disappointed when I first read that's how they were going to build it. But it's a nice little train journey, regardless.

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Remarkable_Ad_788@reddit

Awh, thank you for taking the time to explain this to me. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm 52 years old and only just finding this out. 😆

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Mr_Emile_heskey@reddit

This is what it looks like inside. For the record, even though I'm smiling, I was pretty dissapointed.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Me too. It is not that ridiculous when think about it through a kid's eyes either. You only have one frame of reference for what a tunnel is after all.

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Brain-Weasel@reddit

I believed this too

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Good0times@reddit

..What like stargate?

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farfetchedfrank@reddit

More like a Sea Life Centre tunnel

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HarryGuy1234567@reddit

I just assumed it was like that one Mario Kart Wi track

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Icy_Examination_7783@reddit

My son asked me this recently, and was properly gutted he couldn’t see anything when we went through it 😂

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fruoel@reddit

I remember telling my parents I was looking forward to seeing all the sea creatures and then feeling crushed when they explained that wouldn’t happen.

Also, on the same trip, that just because the exchange rate was 10 francs to the pound didn’t mean things would be ten times cheaper in France. I was looking forward to being rich for two weeks!

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CyGuy6587@reddit

I also thought this. The disappointment when I first went through it and there was nothing but darkness 😞

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PinkieMintsSlowpoke@reddit

I still want to believe this now

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squizzlebee@reddit

I thought pregnancy was something that just "happened" to female humans and animals, like growing hair or spots or getting older or whatever, and we spayed female animals to stop it "happening" (obviously I didn't know what sex was or how it worked).

So this led to an amusing conversation when I asked my dad if mummy was ever going to have more babies and he said confidently "no darling, she isn't", and me wondering how he could be so sure asked him "oh has she been spayed then?"

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Suspicious_Lab505@reddit

I remember wondering why everyone was so shocked when women got pregnant on soap operas lmao.

I don't think I thought about it very deeply, but I must have believed in the spontaneous generation of babies.

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homelaberator@reddit

"No dear. I've been neutered"

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throwaway11_47@reddit

I thought this too! I remember telling my friends in year 4 that my mum had got pregnant at 18 without having sex (in my limited understanding of what sex was) because she wasn’t married to my dad at the time so it wasn’t possible

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Legit_Vampire@reddit

My son thought a babies weight was how much you paid for a baby when you went to buy it from the hospital. he asked me how much he cost so I asked him to explain ( he had obviously been talking to his friend) he said Jake cost £6 5p (6lb 5oz) I told him he was exactly 7lb - he didn't get the weight thing at all, but he was really pleased he was more expensive than Jake.

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Temperbell@reddit

This is so wholesome, adorable, and hilarious. Thank you

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eraserway@reddit

I had a weird belief about babies too; I thought they were assigned names at random. I thought people who were landed with common names like John were just unlucky to not get a cooler name.

This actually led to me choosing my little brother’s name, by “guessing” what he would be called. My parents ran with it and I was thrilled that I’d guessed right!

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GrandDukeOfNowhere@reddit

I believed that everyone's name was unique, and when characters on the telly had the same name as someone I knew that meant they were named after them, then on my first day of school 2 kids told me their names were Gareth and Ryan I thought they were lying because I already know Gareth and Ryan, that's them over there

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MustardKingCustard@reddit

Hang on. What?

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Intrepid-Grocery-312@reddit

Me too! I just assumed it happened at a certain age and I didn’t change that assumption for an embarrassingly long time

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Cryptic_Spren97@reddit

In a similar vein, I believed that everyone had a half day at school on pancake day so they can go out skipping in the afternoon. Nope, just a Scarborough thing apparently. I found that out the hard way when I went away to school in Worcester.

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gloomsbury@reddit

I remember when they first opened the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, some kid in my class told me that if you were on the bridge when they tilted it up to let boats under, you'd have to sit down and put on a seat belt*. Being a gullible five-year-old, I just believed it without question and was quite disappointed to find it wasn't like a big theme park ride (in reality they just close the bridge when it tilts).

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double-happiness@reddit

I thought Castle Douglas was a big town 🤣

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ksrrg@reddit

I used to think people in the past actually lived in black and white.

And also that my dad’s snoring could literally be heard from hundreds of miles away, because my mum and dad used to tell my that or next door neighbours could hear him even when we went on holiday.

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PlasticNo1274@reddit

me too with the black and white. but I believed it was linked to the quality of TVs, so my grandparents grew up in black and white, my parents lived in slightly fuzzy 80s colour, and I could see everything well because a 2010 TV is pretty accurate (not HD but I don't have perfect eyesight). I also thought at some point my grandparents saw the transition of the world from black and white to colour!

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MyCatIsAFknIdiot@reddit

That if I fell out of that tree and broke both my legs, I shouldnt come running to my mum, as she had warned me about it.

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WarmTransportation35@reddit

My dad said if the screen on a tv is left still for more than 10 minutes, the police will come into the house and smash the tv with a hammer.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

I used to have a job with the police (a civilian role, not an officer). I often had parents telling their children,'If you don't behave, this police lady will take you away and put you in prison'.

They used to give me daggers when I told the children that it wasn't true. They expected me to go along with it.

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Temperbell@reddit

I always felt like this kinda thing instilled fear for the police, when we should have been taught that they are there to help

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LordGeni@reddit

That's just lack of resources. They can't afford the hammers.

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Remarkable_Ad_788@reddit

I was 39 when my husband told me our orphan lambs from lambing season were sold to another farmer because he wanted to keep them as pets.

I'm 52 now, and my wonderful husband died suddenly in 2020.

After reading everyone's comments about pets going to 'farms', I'm doubting he was being truthful...

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sennalvera@reddit

I remember my mother refusing to buy something because 'we can't afford it'. To me this was patently ridiculous. I'd seen it with my own eyes, grown-ups could go to the machine in the wall and get money.

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Brickie78@reddit

And indeed the idea of budget. It's not that she literally didn't have the money for the expensive toy you'd seen, but that you can't just go round buying whatever you want on a whim.

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LoquatGood610@reddit

There's a yorkshire wors for this that I'm on a single person campaign to introduce to the rest of the UK, haha. Thoil. When you can't justify the cos of something. If you want an apple, and I offer to sell you one for a tenner - you probably technically can afford £10, but you can't thoil spending that on a braeburn.

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HELJ4@reddit

Plenty of adults still don't understand this. Or maybe it's just my brothers.

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bekbok@reddit

I was always confused by my mum declining cashback in the supermarket when I was a kid. I thought it was free money/discount on her shopping so didn’t understand why you wouldn’t have it.

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Slight-Awareness-964@reddit

Omg same!

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pajamakitten@reddit

Or that they could just their credit card for free money.

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Melodic_Pin354@reddit

The downstairs toilet would eat me because the flush was really loud.

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Cookiebabeslbc@reddit

Omg 😲 I thought this was just me 😄

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Agreeable_Ad7002@reddit

For years I ran upstairs at night after using our bathroom because the toilet monster would get me. I suspect I've an Uncle to blame for that mild horror.

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MustardKingCustard@reddit

I thought circle was pronounced "cirtle" until I was about 12. Nobody ever corrected me. And that's why I drink.

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ihavecrampinmyfoot@reddit

That’s ok until I was 17 I believed coat hangers were called hoat cangers always thought that was an odd name

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raekwaan@reddit

That the moon was the backside of the sun.

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throwaway11_47@reddit

That women were the dominant sex throughout history (thats what my mum told me as a small child)

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ButterscotchSure6589@reddit

If you took drugs, you'd think you were an orange and peel yourself.

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throwaway11_47@reddit

I thought until embarrassingly recently (maybe 18?) that you could fall from any height - like thousands of metres - into water and as long as you landed feet first you’d sustain no injury

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throwaway11_47@reddit

I thought a school trip was literally when you travel outside school and trip over. In the lead up to the school trip I kept imagining myself tripping over at the local national trust site. When I came back from the trip my mum said did you have a good school trip? I said no, because I didn’t trip over that day

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pajamakitten@reddit

That a detention would ruin my life akin to going to prison.

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ButterscotchSure6589@reddit

It would go on your permanent record.

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Johhnymaddog316@reddit

My sister thought that St Pancras was St Pancreas until I corrected her a few weeks ago. She's 39.

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ButterscotchSure6589@reddit

I've just googled this and am shocked. It i's actually St Pancras, when I typed it, it came up as Pancras on predictive text.

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lilylady4789@reddit

Today I learnt this 😳

I'm nearly 37

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Yeah, passed through on the tube plenty times and I thought it was St Pancreas..

I guess I'd assumed St Pancreas was an innovator/pioneer of medical knowledge and they named an organ after them or something..

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idril1@reddit

my dad was a firefighter, he told me that fire engines put their sirens on because they had fish and chips for tea and wanted to get back to the station before they got cold

I think he didn't want me to realise how dangerous the job actually was

I believed him and I miss my dad a lot

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WorldAncient7852@reddit

That moleskin trousers were made from the skins of many, many little moles. Thanks Dad.

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writedream13@reddit

Uh you just taught me something new (I’m 35)

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Exotic-Astronaut6662@reddit

Wait, what ? Well that explains why my mole breeding farm program and haberdashery business plan was laughed out of the NatWest bank.

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WorldAncient7852@reddit

I'm ashamed to say I was 22 when I was finally convinced this wasn't the truth.

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blopdab@reddit

This kind of reminds me of the comment I saw about a kid asking what the numbers painted on sheep meant and his dad told him that was their kill streak

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geoinvasion@reddit

I thought the moon was made of cheese hahahah

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SpaceTimeCapsule89@reddit

I did a post like this a while a go and admitted that I thought people that wore glasses were good people and weren't capable of committing crimes and stuff.

I believed it to the surprising age of 14. I got a part time job in a cafe over the summer and one of the managers there told us all that Hayley stole from the till and she's been using it to buy drugs for her and her boyfriend. I said oh my god, she wears glasses though. He was like what?

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PsychologicalNote612@reddit

Do you think this was linked to hearing about the Cambodian genocide? Pol Pot killed people with glasses because intellectuals (identified as such by glasses) were a threat to his plans for a different society and you realised that Pol Pot's actions were bad, therefore people who wore glasses were good?

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SpaceTimeCapsule89@reddit

No I doubt it was that. I was a 14 year old that believed something so stupid so you can imagine my intelligence level and being aware of things in the wider world was pretty much non existent!

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PsychologicalNote612@reddit

Fair enough!

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armosnacht@reddit

It’s an interesting stereotype I’ve not thought about much. Kids with glasses have often been the target of bullying.

I think the association with intellectualism ties into the myth that brawn and brains are a dichotomy, so anyone with glasses is not a physical threat. That plus the victimhood probably leads to being seen as “good”.

I find it curious though, because there are most definitely physically threatening stereotypes of those with glasses. But I think the stereotypes are associated more often with being creepy and deviant in some way.

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hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit

Maybe Pol Pot knew Hayley.

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anabsentfriend@reddit

Did all of your friends and family wear glasses?

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Smiley_Dub@reddit

That our dog went to live on a farm

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Stabbykarp@reddit

Our dog went to live with an elderly couple and we only found out the truth last year the night before my wedding

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jessjimbob@reddit

I remember being about 17 and the words coming out of my mouth when I realised what actually happened. Until that moment I hadn't really thought about it in any more depth than that.

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Civil-Reserve3570@reddit

Pet parrot went to an aviary in the countryside

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seven-cents@reddit

In my case it was that my pet rooster went to live on a farm

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mrcliffy789@reddit

Please do elaborate

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seven-cents@reddit

That's what my parents told me.

We enjoyed a roast chicken dinner 2 days later, and only when I was in my 40's did they confess that Roopert did go and live on a farm. The big farm in the sky.

To be fair, I don't blame them, he was a nasty piece of work that attacked anyone who entered the back yard, and would crow outside their bedroom window at sunrise!

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bowen7477@reddit

We lived on a farm. I asked why not keep him here instead?

Never ever seen two adults so lost got words in my life.

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TheCharlieMonster@reddit

As a kid I always thought that it was illegal to turn on the car light while it was moving. And also that it was illegal to raise kids in an apartment because my parents always told us kids that when they wanted to have kids they had to move to a house and somehow that translated to my kid brain that it was actually against the law to raise kids in an apartment. I know now that they meant they wanted the house and picket fence lifestyle but that was not my understanding then!

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Sidebottle@reddit

That it was a straight line to Star Trek liberal utopia. Probably should've have paid more attention to the eugenics wars.

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RichieLT@reddit

WW3 first then hopefully the Vulcans.

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Sidebottle@reddit

We avoided WW3 with the cold war, right?!?!!

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gr8-shag@reddit

Im fairly sure WW3 is due in the 2040s. Prepare for an estimated 600 million deaths!

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KittyKes@reddit

If Ireland unification happens in 26 there’s still some hope!

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

No, 2026 is... nuclear WW3.

Lasting 30ish years.

Apocalyptic wastelands, extinction of thousands of plants and animals, loads of the population die, mass starvation etc.

What a time to be alive.

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Sidebottle@reddit

That was 2024.

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KittyKes@reddit

Oh crap there goes that

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aerialpoler@reddit

My parents decided to get a fish tank when I was 5 or 6. While setting it up, my dad put in that water treatment stuff (I've no idea what it's called), and presumably to deter me from trying to touch the fish, told me that if the treatment stuff got on my skin, it would make my skin peel off.

I'm pretty sure that was the moment that kicked off my phobia of fish.

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Imaginary_Coat_2638@reddit

That Arsenal football club was named after their manager at the time Arsene Wenger.

And also that Sven-Göran Eriksson and Sir Alex Ferguson were the same person.

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maca_145@reddit

Everyone knows that at the same time Sven was managing England he was trying to instigate a war between Britain and China through his news company. But luckily was stopped by James Bond

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

As a wind up, my dad had little me believe that arsenal was called that cos all the players were arses running around.. just arses with legs and nothing else..

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hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit

I saw the phrase first team coach in a panini sticker book when I was five or six and thought that it meant that the person was literally the first one to do that job, like they'd been coaching the team since Victorian times.

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bertiesbeehive@reddit

I was with you on the first one of these!

Not so much the second one..

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Imaginary_Coat_2638@reddit

Yeah I honestly can’t even think of a reason why I thought they were the same. I’m guessing because they both wore glasses…

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GarlicEnvironmental7@reddit

God

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spindledick@reddit

I thought sweets were illegal. This is when I was four or five or so. Both school and the Dentist used to go on and on about how bad sweets were for your teeth so I just assumed they were illegal and the shops that sold them were a bit dodgy. Then my mum took me to Duxford for an air show and I can remember seeing a police officer guiding traffic. I experienced a wave of panic I can only imagine is similar to someone encountering the police whilst carrying a little bit of class A. I screamed at my mum that we needed to hide the fruit pastilles and shoved what I could in the crevice between the two halves of the rear bench in her Austin Metro City X.

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Dennyisthepisslord@reddit

The world was black and white until the mid 60s. I clearly remember asking my dad about when colour was invented. What made it even dumber was we had a second tv in the kitchen that was a 1960s style tiny black and white screen so it's not like I didn't know TVs just didn't have the technology 🙃

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Mammoth_Confidence_4@reddit

Because there was black and white tv’s footage that colour hadn’t been invented and everything was black and white

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crystalbumblebee@reddit

That sperm started in the eyes

From the phrase " before you were a twinkle in your daddy's eye.."

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

This made me feel unwell.

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CheekyYoghurts@reddit

It's just a different kind of eye

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Proper-Load644@reddit

And technically that sperm was not "you" either

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

Men drink tea and women drink coffee. (becuase that’s what my parents drank)

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cankennykencan@reddit

Illegal to put the internal light on in the car when you're driving

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

Not illegal. But stupid because it makes it hard to see out the car.

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DemonicFrog@reddit

I'm 41 and a little bit of me still believes this.

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Indigo-Waterfall@reddit

To get more money you just had to go to the bank and they would give you more money.

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SnekBrek@reddit

I thought that pregnancy tests got you pregnant. That a pregnancy test would determine if you had a kid or not. Can’t figure out how to word it but, even if you never had sex, pee on the stick, and it was up to the pregnancy test stick if you would have a baby or not.

I was terrified of pregnancy tests. It wasn’t until sex ed in school (around 9 years old, never given the birds and bees speech from my mum) that I found out how babies were made. Makes me laugh all these years later at how absolutely thick I was as a child.

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ExpressionBrief7619@reddit

Btw they do cheese rolling every year in Stilton along the high street. Town and area around is as flat as a pancake

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Sustainable_Twat@reddit

As someone who grew up watching Power Rangers, I genuinely believed the “morpher” would give you a power rangers suit minus the power!

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bordercollie_adhd@reddit

I used to rub all the 50pence pieces in my pocket money in case I got The Queens Nose

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Adept_Thanks_6993@reddit

That my dad was a pirate.

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djthinking@reddit

That exhaust pipes blow the car along, hence why fast cars have multiple exhausts.

The cars I drew around this time had many, many exhaust pipes.

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sneeriouscyril@reddit

That Bogna Regis and Timbuktu were fictional places.

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EuroManson@reddit

That wwe was real.

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Alone-Sky1539@reddit

that England was a free country. wat a fool i were

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Bulimic_Fraggle@reddit

That things will always get better.

I was damn near forty when I realised that no, sometimes there is no happy ending. That things are shit, and they will probably get worse.

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bonuce@reddit

I honestly thought as a teenager that we’d just fixed sexism and racism now, and society would all get better.

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aje0200@reddit

I remember when I first learnt about sexism, it was on the radio probably Jeremy vine or something. I couldn’t believe that it was a thing people would do.

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moonstone7152@reddit

I would have loved to have found out about sexism from the radio...

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Brickie78@reddit

Hell, I still sometimes read something and wonder how people genuinely think like that.

Just today I saw a report of a guy being sent down in the US somewhere for beating on his 2 year old son to "toughen him up" because he was playing with a doll and the dad was scared he'd turn gay.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Same, despite the fact that homophobia was still common when I was a teenager. I thought discrimination was confined to the past.

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frusciantefango@reddit

Same! I thought it was just what people from my grandparents' generation thought as they didn't know any better, and obviously in modern times no one would have those attitudes.

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DeadNervosus@reddit

That the future was gonna be cool, it's not, it looks like a mess.

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Specific_Till_6870@reddit

I believed that my Irish granddad was both a cowboy in the Wild West and a pirate in the late 19th century. I believed this because he had photos of it and I continued to believe this well past finding out he was born in Dublin in 1933.

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

I think as a kid, I had no concept of time, and any time I saw a cartoon with historic setting - knights, cowboys, WW2, etc, I thought there were places like that in real life that existed at that very time..

Somewhere out there, there's a wild west where cowboys are having shootouts, and somewhere else there's knights in armour jousting and slaying dragons and rescuing fair maidens from castle etc

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HisLoba97@reddit

That humans have compassion. Absolutely not

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SpasmodicSpasmoid@reddit

I never moved house as a kid , so I thought when you moved house a crane came and attached to your roof and moved the house away to wherever you wanted

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Usual-Sound-2962@reddit

‘Well our town just doesn’t have the right hill for it’ 💀

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vasior@reddit

That some stranger was my big sister

For context, my brother and sister are much older than me. My sister lives abroad, so I barely knew her. I just thought she was cool, and I was excited to finally meet her.

It was my brother's wedding day, and of course, our sister had to attend. My parents left me with some distant family friends for a while, and in my young mind, it made perfect sense that the mother of this family must be my big sister.

So, I proudly informed her kids, who were around my age, that their mum was my big sister and, naturally, that made me their uncle!

I am not their uncle.

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Important_Ad716@reddit

My dad told me the roadworks sign was a man putting up an umbrella, and it was a beware it's about to rain sign. I live in the Highlands, so to br fair, it was usually spot on.

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Fattydog@reddit

That the trains I could see in the distance at night were giant caterpillars with shiny buttons.

Thanks dad.

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ringwraithtruffles@reddit

Thinking that the greenhouse effect was caused by greenhouses.

I was looking outside and my neighbours had a greenhouse and I said to my dad very seriously “I can’t believe they have a greenhouse, aren’t they illegal!?”. I can still hear my dad laughing to this day.

My sister thought illegal was ‘against the eagle’ that there was an all powerful eagle that created our laws so if you did something wrong she would yell “that’s against the golden eagle!”.

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Ok-State-5513@reddit

That actually errr! No when a person jumped from a plane in a parachute jump they were not ‘transported’ up into the stars… I remember explaining with great visuals to my younger brother how parachutes take the man upwards! My dad in ear shot was heard to say to my mum “She really is quite dim”

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kairu99877@reddit

One day I'd buy a house.

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Mysterious_Soft7916@reddit

Yup. This is possibly the one that makes me the most sad

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botwewa@reddit

My brother used to sing the lyrics ‘when a man loves a woman, like Bush loves America’ and I genuinely thought those were the real lyrics.

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Dadskitchen@reddit

That the world was a fair place, full of nice people just wanting to have a good life.

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MathematicianBulky40@reddit

Bit mundane compared to some of these.

But my mum would occasionally pull something icy out of the fridge and be like, "Oh, it was touching the back."

For some reason, my young mind concluded that the back of the fridge had the power to flash freeze things.

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