✗ That if you eat a watermelon seed, a watermelon will grow in your stomach.
✗ That it is illegal to turn on the interior light of a car while it was moving.
✗ That teachers had no personal lives and probably lived at the school.
✗ That white cows made white milk and brown cows made chocolate milk.
✗ That you could accidentally encounter quicksand anywhere, at any time.
✗ That all dogs are male and all cats are female.
✗ That Mom had eyes on the back of her head, just like she said.
✗ That if you cross your eyes, they might stay that way (Thanks again, Mom!).
✗ The blue part of the eraser could erase ink.
✗ That the ‘coin return’ button on a vending machine or video game might actually work.
(I’m still trying to accept the fact that everything wasn’t in black and white before the 70s!)
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