Last week, Abraham Piper shared 22 ridiculous things he believed as a child, all of which put a smile on my face. In honor of the Victoria Day long weekend, I’ve compiled my own list of the ridiculous things I believed as a child. I hope you enjoy.

1. I could fly if I tried hard enough
2. I had a shot with the prettiest girl in school
3. Being in Chess Club didn’t mark me as one of the “loser” kids
4. Aerosmith was awesome
5. Star Trek was cool
6. Star Trek: The Next Generation was even cooler (to be fair, the two-part episode where Picard became a Borg is pretty B.A.)
7. That Voyager had potential to be awesome (I watched way too much Star Trek as a kid)
8. He-Man and the Masters of the Universe = quality cartoon
9. Thundercats didn’t suck
10. Glasses = intellectual
11. Transformers was excellent
12. No one would notice if I refilled what I took out of the soda bottle with water
13. Mom also wouldn’t notice that I ate all the macaroons she made at Christmas
14. Sweat pants were acceptable in public
15. Saved by the Bell was funny (tragically, it’s still a guilty pleasure; shame on me, I know)
16. You can learn Karate by watching The Karate Kid repeatedly
17. Karate Kid II was worth watching
18. Ditto Tim Burton’s Batman
19. I could diffuse a bomb with chewing gum and chicken wire
20. That someday, I too could go back in time in a 1985 DeLorean; all I needed was plutonium and a flux capacitor
21. That I could drive at the age of ten, just because it looked easy
22. Wearing muscle shirts meant you had muscles (obviously)

That’s my list, although I’m sure there’s many, many more things I could add.

What’s your’s?