I used to think that "giving someone the finger" ment to litteraly give someone THE finger. I really thought that there was a golden finger being passed around! So, when someone said " You better stop or I'll give you the finger!" I was overjoyed !
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a half moon was gods finger nail, and his finger was pointing downwards.— clo
- When I was little, I thought you had to put a finger under the water to make it hot. — M_2
- When I was a kid I thought if I bit my finger off and swallowed it it would pop back into place— Mike
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- I used to believe that if my finger was ever cut off, it would grow back.— Chrissy
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly