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