I used to believe ...

So I was looking around on the web =p and on Romas' blog (an AIESECer who I've never met, but who's blog I reached after hopping from random AIESEC blog to another random AIESEC blog, he has a link to this really cool site.

After careful evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of procrastination, I decided to visit the site =) It is actually really funny! I had a smile on my face as I was reading most of the top rated comments.

Here is an explanation of what the site is:

"I Used To Believe is a funny and bizarre collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren't so strange after all..."

All of us at some stage have had some of these weird beliefs!

Like I remember that I used to think that whenever a room was dark that there was some horrible thief waiting to ambush me (the paranoid Indian in me) =p But I also believed that turning on the light was really really expensive for my parents (the cheap Indian in me). So I used to spend a lot of time at night sprinting through the darkest areas of my house trying to escape from the evil thieves who could quite potentially be waiting in a corner, ready to attack me!

Also I remember that when I was young, my parents bought my brother and I two cute little puppies! One for him and one for me! They were honestly soooo soooo cute! I had named mine Danny after my favorite Cricket player at the time, and my brother named his Jimmy.

Unfortunately neither dog had been neutered =p So they constantly used to get into fights, which would create alot of noise! In the end my mum after trying many different things, my mum just ended up getting fed up and gave my puppy away!
When I found out my puppy was missing I asked "Mummy, where's Danny?"
My Mum was like "The SPCA took him and they are not giving him back", I of course started freaking out, but the extent of my freak out obviously hadn't been anticipated hehe. She actually ended up having to stage a fake phone call in front of me to the SPCA, where she pretended to plead for our dog back! While on the phone she made it sound sounded like they just wouldn't give it back no matter how hard she tried. I cried for many many days and for most of my childhood + adolescence I ended up hating the SPCA! (I mean what the hell kindof organization goes around stealing puppies?!)

Anyway back to the site =p One of the quotes from the site which made me crack up was this one!:

"when i was little i used to always want to buy ice cream from the ice cream man, and sometimes my mom would give me money. but one time, when i asked for money she got fed up and said, "oh, that's the knife sharpening man! he comes around and sharpens peoples' knives to use to kill little kids who ask him for ice cream! please, whatever you do, DONT ASK HIM FOR ICE CREAM!" from then on, i was horrified at the knife sharpening man, aka the ice cream man. :P"

The lies parents tell to make their lives easier =p You can find the site here.

BBB

PS: the SPCA for those of you guys that are internationals =p is the organisation in New Zealand that actually takes in and looks after orphaned animals (tried to find them good homes). Also do alot in terms of making sure animals have good homes to live in etc) ... evil bastards took my puppy =(