MorningPerson
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Post by MorningPerson on Jun 7, 2016 13:52:35 GMT
Something on another thread reminded me of something that took me way too long to realize, and I thought it might be fun if we could embarrass ourselves together by admitting it here. Or maybe it'll just be me and you all can laugh at my expense. I'm ashamed to admit how old I was when I realized that creeks, streams, etc. only run downhill. Yep. Born and bred country girl who loved geography class in school and loved even more running after my older brothers through fields and streams and woods and... I digress. You know how sometimes you're driving through a mountain pass type area with hills all around you, and you sometimes can't tell if you're going uphill or downhill because you can't really get perspective? Well, once we were traveling and my husband my Dad - I'm sure it was my Dad because I was very, very young - mentioned how weird it was that we were actually going uphill because it didn't seem like it. I disagreed and said, no, I'm sure we're going downhill and after much back and forth he said, MorningPerson, look at the big creek with the rushing water running right alongside the road. After much more back and forth (I may or may not have said something like what does that have to do with anything) I learned something new. SaveSave
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joelise
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Post by joelise on Jun 7, 2016 14:09:05 GMT
That is funny . I have one - when I was very small I asked my dad why he turned the indicator on in the car, he said it was because we were turning into grandma's house. For ages after, everytime I saw a car with an indicator going I thought the people in the car must be visiting their grandparents' house!
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Post by shescrafty on Jun 7, 2016 14:14:20 GMT
I was for sure in my early twenties because I was with DH and I asked him, "What state is the DelMarVa peninsula in?"
I have no idea why I never realized it just included parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. I guess I. My head it was a place that was easily accessible by all 3 states but was an actual town or something in one state.
In my defense as soon as I said it outloud I kind of stopped myself and figured it out. 21 years later he still reminds me of it sometimes, lol.
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flute4peace
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Post by flute4peace on Jun 7, 2016 14:15:36 GMT
That is funny . I have one - when I was very small I asked my dad why he turned the indicator on in the car, he said it was because we were turning into grandma's house. For ages after, everytime I saw a car with an indicator going I thought the people in the car must be visiting their grandparents' house! For me it was the Co-op. Every time a vehicle would break down we'd take it to the Co-op. So naturally I thought that any time something broke we had to take it there.
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Post by fredfreddy on Jun 7, 2016 14:19:37 GMT
the lyrics to some songs from 1985 to 1993. I finally decided to look up the lyrics to some and I had them so very very wrong. AH well.
Oh and I was always spelling spaghetti "spagetti" until I helped run a spaghetti feed a few years ago...
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smartypants71
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Post by smartypants71 on Jun 7, 2016 14:26:26 GMT
I just learned last year that I've been pronouncing "cacophony" wrong my entire life. It's obviously a word I don't say out loud much, but I've been reading it in my head wrong all this time.
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Post by myshelly on Jun 7, 2016 14:32:56 GMT
My mom wa as hoarder - both the compulsive shopping type and the didn't clean type.
I was in jr high before I realized other people washed and rewore their clothing. My mom took us to buy 6 new outfits, new socks, new underwear, and new pjs every Saturday.
I was an adult before I realized that having open credit on a credit card was not the same as having cash in the bank.
I have a lot of weird shopping issues that I had no idea weren't normal because it was all I knew growing up.
Really messed me up as a young adult.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2016 14:37:52 GMT
I just learned last year that I've been pronouncing "cacophony" wrong my entire life. It's obviously a word I don't say out loud much, but I've been reading it in my head wrong all this time. You should not be embarrassed about this one, it means you are well read...
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eleezybeth
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Post by eleezybeth on Jun 7, 2016 14:40:36 GMT
Right, so I was *cough* *cough* older... when I figured out why Daisy Dukes were named Daisy Dukes. Seriously, a huge DUH! moment.
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Post by gloryjoy on Jun 7, 2016 14:44:51 GMT
I was in my late twenties and having a conversation with my dh and Dad. My Dad said "oh that will clean up with some elbow grease". I asked him where I could buy elbow grease!
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River
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Post by River on Jun 7, 2016 14:47:04 GMT
This one always haunts me, so I might as well share it.
I was about 21 and my future DH (who I teased for being a city boy) and I went to my parents house for supper. The house I grew up in my entire life. Small town country girl and proud of it. We always had a big garden and I helped my dad work it quite a bit. Well, just before we sat down to eat, daddy told me to go get some radishes out of the garden to go with the meal. Daddy and I ate radishes with everything all the time.
I take my happy self, thinking of the yummy radishes out to the garden and look everywhere for the radishes. I'm thinking maybe he planted them in a new spot since its been years since I worked the garden with him, I go back inside and ask, he says they are where they always were. I still couldn't find them and went back inside, this time my daddy goes out with me and straight to them. Pulling them out of the ground. Yep, I'd forgot they were a root and grew underground.
I've never lived that down from my city boy husband. I think it embarrassed my dad since thankfully he never teased me. Now I buy my radishes from the grocery store and know exactly where they are. What's sad is every now and then I go to get them out of the fridge and they are not there. I ask Dh where they went since I'm the only one that eats them. He says "did you look IN the ground" where he actually buried them from me.
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Post by llinin on Jun 7, 2016 15:02:47 GMT
I was in my teens before I figured out tuna were not tiny little minnow sized fish. I thought they were skinned and canned, teeny tiny little fish. I have no sense of direction at all. In my 20's I told my then boyfriend to go west to get to the Chinese restaurant. He was surprised I gave an actual direction and asked me how I knew so I said slowly "lefttttt, westttt" and he about died laughing explaining to me that left is not always west. Oops.
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Post by melanell on Jun 7, 2016 15:08:05 GMT
I just learned last year that I've been pronouncing "cacophony" wrong my entire life. It's obviously a word I don't say out loud much, but I've been reading it in my head wrong all this time. I just saw something neat on Facebook that said something along the lines of "Don't worry (or maybe laugh, tease, etc.) if someone mispronounces something. It just means that they learned the word through reading." Then it said something along the lines of "comprehension first, pronunciation second". Oh, and this happens to me especially with names of people and places in books.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2016 15:08:08 GMT
This is embarrassing and happened 2 days ago in Target. I had no idea that when you pay with credit and sign the screen, that you can scribble anything you want. I always painstakingly write out my full signature, you know, just in case someone pulls my record and wants to compare it to my credit card. I felt like a doofus when my SO told me that no way is that every going to happen with the millions of transactions which occur every day, all over the world
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Post by bostonmama on Jun 7, 2016 15:08:51 GMT
I was 31 before the lightbulb went off that ALL eggs aren't dead baby chicks. I was afraid my whole life that one day I would crack open an egg that was taken? stopped? who knows! too late and I would find a dead baby chick. I was quite embarrassed when I realized that hens will lay eggs regardless of the presence of a rooster. You need a rooster to fertilize an egg for it to become a chick. I just never gave it much thought! Still...there's a part of me that's afraid someone will get a fertilized egg mixed into my dozen!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jun 7, 2016 15:13:29 GMT
It was just a few years ago (here at the Peas) that I learned about the gas tank indicator arrow on the fuel gauge in a car... before that, I would always have to ask my boyfriend 'which side is the gas tank on in your car?' on those rare occasions when I was driving his car. My sister lived in Milwaukee for many years; I think she thought 'right' was always East, towards the lake-- but it depends on which direction you're driving, lol! ETA: bostonmama-- I always have that same worry in the back of my head, too-- and I was a biology major in college, so I should totally know better!! lol!!
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flute4peace
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Post by flute4peace on Jun 7, 2016 15:15:55 GMT
I was in my teens before I figured out tuna were not tiny little minnow sized fish. I thought they were skinned and canned, teeny tiny little fish. I have no sense of direction at all. In my 20's I told my then boyfriend to go west to get to the Chinese restaurant. He was surprised I gave an actual direction and asked me how I knew so I said slowly "lefttttt, westttt" and he about died laughing explaining to me that left is not always west. Oops. Um yea it is. That's the only way to figure out which way you need to go. Look at the little indicator on the dashboard, twist in the seat so your torso is facing north, and then calculate your turning direction from there.
(I have no internal map so I totally get what you're saying)
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Post by garcia5050 on Jun 7, 2016 15:17:23 GMT
Both of these happened with my now DH, but early in our dating years. He told me he was watching a ball game on ESPN, and I asked, why, is it not on an English Channel? Because I thought ESPN was a Spanish language channel (Espanol). Another time, I said something about basketball legend Magic Jordan. In front of a large group of friends. I really thought it was one guy.
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Post by kenziekeeper on Jun 7, 2016 15:20:01 GMT
I was 31 before the lightbulb went off that ALL eggs aren't dead baby chicks. I was afraid my whole life that one day I would crack open an egg that was taken? stopped? who knows! too late and I would find a dead baby chick. I was quite embarrassed when I realized that hens will lay eggs regardless of the presence of a rooster. You need a rooster to fertilize an egg for it to become a chick. I just never gave it much thought! Still...there's a part of me that's afraid someone will get a fertilized egg mixed into my dozen! Well. I learned something new today! Sitting here thinking "Oh... Oh... Duh!" as I read your post.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2016 15:20:52 GMT
I was 10... I I hated the fried chicken at my uncle's house, hated it! Then I looked at the platter and it hit me. Chickens do not have 4 legs!
Squirrel doesn't taste like chicken.
Edited to add. I stopped eating meat at his house.
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Post by genny on Jun 7, 2016 15:34:00 GMT
I was 31 before the lightbulb went off that ALL eggs aren't dead baby chicks. I was afraid my whole life that one day I would crack open an egg that was taken? stopped? who knows! too late and I would find a dead baby chick. I was quite embarrassed when I realized that hens will lay eggs regardless of the presence of a rooster. You need a rooster to fertilize an egg for it to become a chick. I just never gave it much thought! Still...there's a part of me that's afraid someone will get a fertilized egg mixed into my dozen! You're not alone in this one…I keep backyard chickens and I have had at least a dozen people, smart highly educated people, ask me how I get eggs without roosters. I guess it's just one of those things you don't 'know' until it's told to you! The only reason I knew is because my Granny used to keep chickens and I asked her when I was a kid.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jun 7, 2016 15:34:59 GMT
@megmc - ewww!!! what a thing to figure out the hard way!! (disclaimer, I have never eaten squirrel but I really don't want to ever try it, accidentally OR on purpose)
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Post by momstime on Jun 7, 2016 15:35:59 GMT
As a very young child, my dad told me that all the vitamins and minerals in bread were in the crust, and that the bread part was just for tasting good. I believed him and never once questioned his wisdom. Fast forward, my own child is refusing his crust one day. I say to him, 'All the vitamins are in the crust. The bread part is just for tasting good." to which my son says, "So, as bread bakes, the vitamins and minerals and all the good stuff just magically move to the outside of the bread?" A real duh moment for certain. I was like, "Never mind! I was kidding."
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Post by peabay on Jun 7, 2016 15:36:35 GMT
I have two words I have said wrong my whole life and am thrilled that people now say it's because I was a precocious reader: corollary and quintessential. I still pronounce them wrong in my head when I read them.
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Post by bostonmama on Jun 7, 2016 15:38:30 GMT
As a very young child, my dad told me that all the vitamins and minerals in bread were in the crust, and that the bread part was just for tasting good. I believed him and never once questioned his wisdom. Fast forward, my own child is refusing his crust one day. I say to him, 'All the vitamins are in the crust. The bread part is just for tasting good." to which my son says, "So, as bread bakes, the vitamins and minerals and all the good stuff just magically move to the outside of the bread?" A real duh moment for certain. I was like, "Never mind! I was kidding." I tell my Grandmother this all the time! The crust is just the browned, outside of the bread! Stop making a big deal about eating the crust!!! SaveSave
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Post by psoccer on Jun 7, 2016 15:41:04 GMT
For the longest time I thought I was part Heintz. I had asked my grandmother about my nationality, she had said German, Czech, and part Heintz. It took me way too many years to realize she was referring to the ketchup, Henitz 57. Actually, I might have had to ask her...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2016 15:43:05 GMT
As a very young child, my dad told me that all the vitamins and minerals in bread were in the crust, and that the bread part was just for tasting good. I believed him and never once questioned his wisdom. Fast forward, my own child is refusing his crust one day. I say to him, 'All the vitamins are in the crust. The bread part is just for tasting good." to which my son says, "So, as bread bakes, the vitamins and minerals and all the good stuff just magically move to the outside of the bread?" A real duh moment for certain. I was like, "Never mind! I was kidding." OMG funny. I wish I thought of that
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Post by stefdesign on Jun 7, 2016 15:44:01 GMT
When I was in college- age 20 or so, my roommate made pudding from scratch. I never knew you could do that. I thought all pudding came from a box marked Jello Pudding and Pie Filling.
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Post by pridemom on Jun 7, 2016 15:44:59 GMT
In the late 70's and 80's, money laundering was a frequent topic in TV and movies. I was about 14 when I learned what it really was. Before then, I had pictured people stuffing money into washing machines to get it clean.
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Post by marianne on Jun 7, 2016 15:48:15 GMT
I just learned last year that I've been pronouncing "cacophony" wrong my entire life. It's obviously a word I don't say out loud much, but I've been reading it in my head wrong all this time. For me it was "hors d'oeuvres" and "emeritus" - I'd been reading it as horse doovers and emeritetess for more years than I care to admit! It wasn't until I met my future father-in-law... who was a professor emeritus... that I knew how it was pronounced!
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