I have a habit of saying “oh, really?!” after someone tells me something and sometimes I’m usually not listening to what they say… so my boyfriend would say random stuff and laugh at me when I say it. But when I was little, I use to believe everything everyone told me…
That everyone lived to be 100 years old. My sister would always point out the fact that she would live one year longer than me since she was a year younger …and inserts an evil laugh somewhere.
If I didn’t each everything single piece of rice in my bowl during dinner, the rice gods would punish me. But then I was never religious nor really believed in that stuff so there were always leftover rice in my bowl.
That there were little rice gods living in every single grain of rice. I was curious so I’d bite it in half to look for them, thinking, “oh god, I just bit their head off.”
If I swallowed watermelon seeds, watermelons would grow in my stomach. It’s okay… I love watermelon anyway.
That leprechauns existed. Because our teacher played a trick on us when we were 7 and I think I believed it until I was like 10. I use to tell everyone the story and when they told me it was fake, I’d get angry.
That people really live on clouds. Because another teacher told us her plane got stranded on a cloud so she had to live there for weeks. I wish we could really live on clouds!
That we’ve been on mars and all the other cool planets. Imagine my disappointment when I learned we only traveled to the boring, old moon.
Well, at least I’m wasn’t the only stupid kid.
KATY:
Something my mom used to say is that every single grain of rice left in the bowl would be a pimple on my future wife.
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Hehe I like this post. (:
My dad used to tell me that searchlights were used to find Batman… and I believed it!
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i thought the same thing about watermelon seeds but that’s because mom and dad told me so!
also, my parents told me for every rice grain not eaten is a maggot i’d have to eat in hell.
seriously, asian parents.
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holy crap! Just before I clicked your site on your twitter post I thought of how I used to think people lived to be 100, then died. I never knew it was so common for kids to think that haha
I ALSO believe to this day that you should always eat all the rice in your bowl. My mom told me (jokingly, she doesn’t believe in that Chinese stuff) that if you don’t, you’ll marry someone ugly.
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I’ve had several similar misconceptions. Though my the largest and probably the most common misconception I had was that everyone’s family was like mine. This is specific to the how close my family was with my distant relatives. I mean I thought of my cousins/second-cousins as close siblings and my aunts/uncles as my other parents. That bubble popped when I was in high school and my friend told me that my family was odd, lol.
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Well, we’ve got some probes to mars so your not far off
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Haha I think the rice one is something most Asian parents tell their kids!
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My mom told me about the rice thing too!!
I used to think that babies came naturally to a woman’s body when the time is right. And so if you’re not married at the time that your body decides to have a baby, then that’s how you become a single mom.
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RICE GODS? Haha
I wouldn’t have a problem being my own watermelon farm either
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ohhhhh if we could all really live on clouds… and boy did we have mean teachers and parents.. my mom told me about the rice tales and i believe my brother told me about the 100 years old thing haha.
cute post! (btw you should watch despicable me, random but the moon is in it.. and the movie was sooooo good! lol.)
<3jimin
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haha I used to believe men could get pregnant. I always thought fat men were with child lol
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Amazing… God bless you!
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hahaha!! is the leprechaun thing because in grade 3 mrs michael brought out that little bag with the moving “leprechaun” in it?! cuz if it is..im still wondering what the thing in the bag was! hahaha
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Haha great post Katy! But wait…the rice gods aren’t real?
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You were not a stupid kid! Don’t say that! Have you heard of the one where if you don’t finish all your rice, then your future husband will have the same number of moles as the rice left in your bowl? hehe Oh Asian parents!
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