When I was a young'un, I thought...

[Oeditpus Rex]

• music on the radio came from bands that were actually playing at the station.

• cars had "faces," and Chevies looked happy.

• Vicks Formula 44D was a bust developer.



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[Arkham House]

1. I thought that "cottage cheese" was "college" cheese--

--and only college students were supposed to eat it...I also thought that all TV shows took place in the same universe, so that the Cleavers were neighbors of Rob and Laura Petrie, and that the Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents took place in the same area, so to speak...and I had the oddest delusion, that stayed with me until I was 14, believe it or not, tha our public officials were honest and trustworthy...and incidentally, I was 14 in 1968...

[Mutley]

2. I thought...

• there'd be taxi rides to the moon by the time I was a grown-up.

• all problems could be solved by being nice to one another.

• the teachers lived at the school.

• a watermelon would grow in your stomach if you ate the seeds.

[DawgHouse]

3. If I ate chicken wings my boobs would grow.

I thought Donny Osmond was at the radio station and rode furiously on my bicycle to the station before the song ended. There, the disc jockey explained the awful truth to me. :(

I thought a dark menacing "something" lived in my closet but would sometimes slip under my bed. (I still have anxiety about this sometimes)

I thought it was my duty to rescue all the earthworms that made their way to the gutter after a rainstorm.