I thought "cemetery" was "Jim and Terry", a couple that were friends with my parents. When anybody mentioned the cemetery, i thought they were talking about Jim and Terry's house.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon
- I used to believe that when adults mentioned horsepower that there were Horses under the bonnet— Jonathan