When I was little and doing something to make my mother angry, she'd tell me that if I didn't stop "her Giraffe and her iron would descend upon me." Only years later did I realize that what she was really saying "Her wrath and her ire" - Since I didn't know those words I had translated them to the closest words I did know - To this day I picture the giraffe and the iron floating down towards me when I think of her getting angry!
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that foreigners' ears translated English words to their own languageAnon
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon
- when I was a kid, I used to believe that when thundered, it was because god was angry— deividi brasil br locao
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon