Hayden from Oregon never got to stay up very late.

When I was younger, I thought that the last show for the day on TV ended at 12:00 am, and after that, the screen said “Please go to bed now”.

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When I was in Kindergarten, I attended a friend’s birthday party. While I was there, I took a mental note of his house number (address). The next morning, I woke up before everyone else in the house and decided to call my friend on the telephone. With great expertise (having watched my parents use the telephone in the past), I dialed his two digit house number. I was confused and disappointed when I was unable to reach him. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the phone.

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Steve gets confused about televisions.

I used to think that the television was just a big telephone with a screen. So when I watched my favorite shows like Mr. Dressup and Bill Nye I would yell into the speakers to try and talk to them. I never understood why they didn’t answer me until my mom walked in at me with my mouth pretty much on the speaker and got a little confused. She then proceeded to explain the differences between TVs and telephones.

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When I was younger I always thought people were saying tourists instead of terrorists. I thought it was really weird that tourists would want to attack the World Trade Center.

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If only it were as easy to break into Television as Shelby thought:

When I was younger I thought that to get into the television with the people all you had to do was break the screen and bam, you would be right there with them!

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Seth from Temecula had a small issue with spacial relations on television.

When I was younger, when I would see people blurred out on TV shows like Cops, I would walk to the side thinking I could see past the blur.

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Up until fifth grade, I thought that the word “straight” was synonymous with “virgin”.

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When my sister was little, she thought that dogs were male and cats were female.

Seth from Temecula had these ideas about child actors.

When I was younger my mother told me that kids in commercials would get paid thousands of dollars for being in a commercial. Naturally being young and naive I was under the impression the child was paid thousands of dollars every time their commercial was played.

Nikolas sends in this story about not wanting to be a farmer.

When I was younger I showed an interest in chemistry and my Dad told me to become a pharmacist. I had recently visited a petting zoo and didn’t like the smell so I told him there is no farm I would want to assist.