As a young child, my son, stood watching me as I weighed myself on the bathroom scale. After a short pause he asked if he could also "measure his feet"!
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- When I was around 4 or 5 I was convinced that you would weigh less if you sucked in your stomach on the scale.— S
- My daughter once asked if God was short for Godfrey— keefdave
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- when i was young i used to believe that chewing gum was made out of cows feetAnon
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen