When I was little, most of the grownups in my grandparents' generation were immigrants. I believed that when you get old, you acquire an accent. After all: all the old people had accents, and none of the young ones did.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people were born with accents.Anon
- When i was 4 i thought that all the grownups where robots— Nomad
- I always used to think that grownups whispered where they wanted to go and the car went by itself!— Kay
- I used to believe that money really did grow on trees, but grownups just didn't want us to know about it.— Mariah
- I Used To Believe That Jail & Prison Are Both Timeouts For Adults/Grownups— Kelly Bulanek
- I used to believe that a "No Loitering" sign was "No Littering", inexplicably spelled with a Brooklyn accent.— erin