Beliefs you had as a child about adult life that you've found out to be untrue.

Also I believed in a place called the wind chill factory. Why they have to make it so cold?

so true

some fun

I remember thinking that politics is something extremely complicated, and only highly intelligent people can ever become politicians.

Yes, and to make it broader, I thought adults made rational decisions and knew what they were doing.

I was under the impression that being in your twenties automatically made you cool.

Holy shit the wrongness.

That there was a point you reached where you were definitively an adult, where you had cast off all childish things and become, to all intents and purposes, The Enemy.

(This point was, like, 20 or something)

I can't remember where I once saw something described as tasting "the way little kids imagine alcohol does", but I remember knowing exactly what that writer meant

I thought I would want a house like Pee-Wee has in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

"When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever."

dog doesn't have recording equipment behind her eyes that she secretly gives to Mom, when Mom comes home.

Remy, did you realise you already said that, or is it just a cute coincidence?

dog doesn't have recording equipment behind her eyes that she secretly gives to Mom, when Mom comes home.

-- remy bean, Thursday, 31 May 2007 00:48 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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our kid used to believe something very similair.

I thought I would want a house like Pee-Wee has in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

if you don't still want this, you are dead inside.

i like this one from that website:

I used to think that interpol was an international flower delivery company, although I have no idea how I came to think this, it certainly confused me when, in films, someone would be asked to check an ID with a flower delivery company.

franny, was your quote from rachel mcalpine?

dog doesn't have recording equipment behind her eyes that she secretly gives to Mom, when Mom comes home.

-- remy bean, Thursday, May 31, 2007 12:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER.

That as long as I didn't have kids, I could sleep as late as I damn well pleased.

haha wait, i still think that

Not something I used to think but a childhood friend once told me his mother as a child had thought that electricity pylons were trampolines for horses.

That as long as I didn't have kids, I could sleep as late as I damn well pleased.

eventually it would make sense and get easier.

schef OTM 80808080 wrt pee-wee house

i was always more into his bike, i think. that bike was a definite lottery fantasy for me at ten years old. and the A-Team van.

ha, i made the same post almost two years apart.

"I thought adults made rational decisions and knew what they were doing."

That is exactly how I feel. When I first started working after university I was shocked to learn that nobody actually has a fu*king clue.

estela, it's Tobias Wolff.

More so than I thought they knew what they were doing, I thought that there were just things that adults *did*. It turns out that everyone just does the things that their coworkers, neighbors, and peers do, though, and other people are seen as outsiders.

that my elders' neurotic overbearing habits and routines are NOT the be-all end-all of the universe