I asked my mother where I came from, and was told she'd gotten me in Macy's basement. Every time she went shopping downtown, I asked her to bring me back a baby sister. She never did.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- I asked my mother what a 'homosexual' was when I was 11. She said it was when men danced together.— Nick Tucker
- I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon