when i was 15 we always had a mailbox on the side of my house and we would reach out the door to get the mail. but when a nehighbor down the street tried to sick their dog on the mail man they made us put mailboxes at the end of our property. one day my mom told me to go get the mail and i looked out the window and said "the flags not up!" she looked at me in disbelief and busted out luaghing, i had no idea why. later after they told me that the flag was not up to alert to that the mail was their but to tell the mailman that there was mail going out. im still tuanted about it to this day especialy since i was so old and all my friends joke around an tell me to go get the mail and then say o wait the flags not up! haha
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word e-mail was a sex, like male, female and e-mail.
I'm so thick!— Confoozed - I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- I waited for the mail to come on my 11th birthday so that I could get my letter to Hogwarts... It never came.— Charlie
- I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags — H
- I used to think that the word mailman came from the fact that the mailman was a male. I don't really know why.— Andi