When my cousin Michael had misbehaved, my mother said that his mother would whip him. I thought this meant that she would put him in a bowl and use an eggbeater on him.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- My mother told me that when the icecream man played music that meant he was OUT of icecream.— B. Jones
- My grandma told me that if I misbehaved, the men in the garbage truck would take me away forever.— Anika
- at four, I thought my mother was female and me and my father were fee's Anon
- When I was little I thought the microwave was the Michaelwave because my name is Michael.— Michael
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila