I had a little brother who played soccer and watched a lot of sports movies. In the movies they gave people "pep talks". My brother, since the people were yelling in the movie, thought they were calling people "peptoks" and called me that all the time because he was mean and still is.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I used to believe that when I went to movies people were behind the screen acting out the part — Amy
- I used to believe people really died in movies. I didnt understand they were just acting.— Justin
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - I thought that soccer moms were moms that played soccer!Anon
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally