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27 People Share the Most Ridiculous Things They Believed as Kids

14.

Before I knew what they were, I thought my balls were some sort of poop pouch. I would take a shit while squeezing my balls in agony trying to get all of it out — with no success. And I spent a lot of time thinking I had to poop because of my balls.

15.

That when you left your luggages on that rolling carpet in an airport, it rolled underground while you were flying and resurfaced on the rolling carpet at your destination.

16.

My grandpa told me that I would turn into whatever I ate the most of, so I thought I would turn into a chicken.

17.

I dropped a pushpin in the heater vent and my brother told me that I had caused a nuclear meltdown. I cried my eyes out as my brother told me that my family would die, and that no one would be able to come around the area for hundreds of years.

18.

Before bed I had this routine of saying good-night to each piece of furniture in my bedroom. This was after I had apologized to them all – for any unintended slights that may have occurred throughout the day. It was my belief that if I didn’t do this I’d wake up with all the furniture crowded around my bed rattling the drawers at me, which was about the scariest thing I could imagine back then.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.