When I was little, I really wanted something from a mail-order thing, so I took the form and filled it out... but there was something I didn't know about. On the form, it said "please print".
Now, at the time, I didn't know what cursive handwriting was, so I thought that it meant you had to put your fingerprint there to show that you really REALLY wanted what you were ordering! It was like saying "please mommy, can I have this?" Hence, a 'Please Print'.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought the singular form of geese was "gee"— Kate
- I thought when you get married you have to fill out a form to get a baby and then you get one.— Danielle
- When I was a little kid I thought that salt was some form of an aged sugar.— Jodie
- I used to think that LSD was a form of marijuana.— Shirley B.
- I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.— Adriana
- That poop was pee, in solid form— PoopPeeBeliever