Y’ever think back to your childhood and realize your understanding of some things was completely wrong? Me, too. Here are a few of the things I believed when I was a little ‘dric.

Hecklers

Thanks to The Muppet Show, I thought that a heckler was an old man who had a permanent balcony seat at a theater. More specifically, I thought hecklers were employees of the theater, and it was their job to make fun of the performers.

Electricity

I once believed that electricity had ingredients. I remember playing around my neighborhood, pretending to operate a power plant. I would scrounge around for whatever I could gather (usually just gravel and sticks) and throw it all into an imaginary machine. This machine would then grind up everything I had gathered, and I would stir it all together. Somehow, electricity was born out of this.

Mugging

Growing up in a small Nebraska city, I remember always hearing about people getting mugged in the big cities, especially New York. To me, this seemed like an oddly specific crime. Why? Because for some reason, I thought mugging someone meant that you physically pick someone up and throw them over your head. I wanna say Hong Kong Phooey had something to do with this misconception.