I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.
I thought adults actually knew what the hell they were doing.
I thought that when the clerk at the checkout asked, “would you like cash back?” That you could say yes and they would just give you cash straight out of the register for nothing lol.
I figured that most people were very honest and didn’t need the money, so they would just say no thanks and leave it in the register for somebody who really did need it.
So many things…
I didn’t understand how lie detectors were supposed to work so I thought you could hook someone up and ask something like “does god exist” and you’d be able to get answers to all of life’s big mysteries.
I thought there was a left and right sock
I thought wolverines were mythical creatures
I thought if I tried hard enough I could somehow become older than my older brother like it was just a title or something
Thanks to DARE any time I saw a skittle with the S missing I thought it was drugs even in a newly opened package
I could go on…
I wanted an older sibling as a child and I remember trying to convince my parents they should have another baby. In my mind, if I just waited (my age +1) years, I’d then have an older sibling. It never ocurred to me that I would also age during that time…
I’m surprised an older sibling was something you wanted, usually you want to be the oldest.
Your comment about your brother reminds me that in kindergarten I thought that the line order (alphabetical) had something to do with status. My last name starts with C so I was pretty close to the front, but I had a friend with an A for a last name, so I really wanted to move up.
I told no one of this of course until long after I’d grasped how alphabetical ordering worked myself.
My feet are normalish (well, far too wide but normal length) and my running socks are left and right.
For example for sport and hiking. Those have support structures that need to work differently for the side they are worn on.
I remember thinking that women gave birth to girls and men gave birth to boys, and being really worried because I (as a guy) didn’t want to give birth.
I’m seeing several posts that are startling evidence for the essential nature of proper sex education, lol.
I thought CEOs worked super hard
Some do. CEO’s of small(ish) companies who are maybe also a founder of that company, are often personally and emotionally invested enough to actually want to work hard. CEO of my company is always running and calling and stressing and working late.
Granted, that is after they kicked out the greybeards who were just there because they invested some money years ago and were acting like the kind of CEO you were describing.
Yeah I’m an anticapitalist & socialist, and I have worked with hard working CEOs in small companies. The issue is that their relationship to capital is different, not that all of them are terrible lazy people or something.
They worked like any other worker, but when the company sold for 10 million dollars, they got a few million dollars, some unseen investors that I literally never met got the majority of it, and I (along with the other workers) got scraps, literally nothing for most of us, and small bonuses for other workers. The CEO didn’t put forward any of their own money, and in the end they were essentially the head of marketing getting compensated equivalent to what we made in a lifetime of working in a single day.
We don’t need a class of leeches siphoning away the vast majority of the value of our labor. Even if everyone can dream of being a leech themselves, it’s not good for the vast majority of people.
