My mom used to get me to behave by threatening to sell me 'to the gypsies'. After hearing this a few times, I thought I was the wise one and replied, 'oh yeah, how much did they give you for me then?' Well, she must have been pretty mad at me that time - she replied '$2.75' - and I freaked, truly believing she'd gone at sold me away.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.— Diana Rios
- As a kid every time I heard a person say "it's about time" I always replied "so what about it?"— Eli the Kid
- for some time I used to think that at a drug store people really sold drugs.— NEO_ryu
- I thought Jesus was made up to make kids behave.Anon
- I used to believe that Jesus and all of the wise men lived under my bed. — wuteve
- After being told by my parents or relatives to "behave," I would usually reply: "I am being have."— Ed