When I was in 4th grade my friend told me about the a-word. I believed it was part of another word, "missile", as in a rocket. Looking back, I think I must have been thinking of a**hole, but somehow the idea of a mean rocket got lodged in my brain.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you sneezed while wearing a tampon it would shoot out like a rocket. — Crazy Kid
- I used to believe that cars were propelled by their exhaust like some kind of rocket.Anon
- I used to believe that rocket ran on gasoline and that in order to save gas, we should end the space program.Anon
- I used to believe that the exhaust fumes coming from a car were actually what pushed it forward like a rocket — rocket car
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon