What’s one thing you thought would be bigger as a kid than it is as an adult? It seems like we spent an awful lot of time worrying about quicksand. Which maybe was a good idea, because the National Park Service just put out a real-life warning in Arizona and Utah to watch out for quicksand.
But outside of that, here’s a list of things that we thought would be bigger by now:
1. The Bermuda Triangle. At nine years old, I was convinced someone I knew would end up in a Bermuda Triangle tragedy. So far, so good.
2. Stop, Drop, and Roll. Who else thought they’d be on fire more than they have been
3. Ninjas. I haven’t seen any, but maybe they’re being sneaky?
4. Parallelograms. Why did we learn so much about parallelograms?
5. Having the police commandeer your car. Expected this to happen to me once I started driving.
6. Dinosaur relevance. A significant part of our childhood was devoted to T-Rex knowledge. Maybe we could’ve learned to file our taxes instead?
(You can check out more examples here and here.)
