What did you totally misunderstand as a kid?

When I was a child, we would go on a plane every time we'd visit Mexico,

so I assumed Mexico was actually located in the sky.

What?

I used to believe that when you turned off the TV, it would pause,

was really upset when I would come back from dinner and my show would be over.

That's so cute!

I thought it was pizza hot, not pizza hot, until I was about 16 years old.

I feel like such a douchebag laughing at these.

Okay, I'll do one myself.

When I was a really young boy, I didn't think we lived in England, I thought we lived in America,

because of all the American television I would watch, because I was a dumb butt.

I would literally insist to my family. No, we live in America. We have dollars.

I don't know why. I just didn't want to believe them. Oh, this one's going to be fun.

SX. I had a massive misunderstanding of SX that could have severely injured my adult life had it not been corrected.

When I was younger,

I was obsessed with biology and animals, so I knew how everything fit together, but those damn Hollywood movies messed up my perception of how humans actually did the horizontal limbo. In movies,

couples get all hot and heavy. The screen fades to black and they wake up naked together.

I guess I filled in the blanks with my seven-year-old brain and thought that after you got aroused,

you just fell asleep naked together. And the penis just sort of autopilited itself over to the vagina,

threw up and snaked back. So when people said they were sleeping together, I took this literally, made for an awkward encounter with my dad when I was 12, when I suggested he'd just go to sleep with pants on instead of getting a vasectomy.

I thought that when you grew up, you got a special card that allowed you to go to the bank and have some money printed when you needed some at the ATM.

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