I once over-heard a conversation between classmates. The sentence was:
"My mom hates bending over."
I took it more as: "My mom never bends over or can't bend over." For years I tried to figure out how his mom would do household chores such as opening the oven to take something out without bending.
It wasn't until as an adult that I thought of the conversation and realized what was really said,
"She hates bending, that doesn't mean she doesn't do it."
The realization hit me when I reallized as an adult that I really can't stand bending over either. This evident by the complaints from my wife as to the length of my toe nails.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think you had to be an adult to drink household chemicalsAnon
- My friend Rod hates any kind of meringue pie because when he was 6 his father told him it was cow slobber.— Sean
- When I was a child, I thought that grown-ups were adult.— Gloria
- My brother thought that one adult was a dult and that one alert was a lert.Anon
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon