When much younger, I took words very literally. Imagine my young male horror when, after having been sick for a week, I had to go to a "makeup" class for Tennis.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that teachers always had to officially announce to the whole class why someone was off sick.Anon
- When I was younger, I used to believe toads were male and frog were females.— Claude-Eugène
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh
- When I was young I want to grow up yo be a trash man, becuse they only work one day a week.— Steve H
- I forgot the expression "not cricket", so I said, "not tennis" instead.Anon
- I thought the word mailman was male man and it seemed dumb to me as aren't all men male?— andalite