When growing up in New Orleans I remember my parents saying the "Surgeon Water Board"....I didn't realize until I was an adult and actually looked at a man whole cover that it was the Sewerage and Water Board....well they have the Surgeon General of the U.S. right?
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a weegie board was some sort of surf board.— Missa
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt
- I used to believe that boarding school was where people went to play board games.Anon
- I used to belive that the law was a number of rules on a notice board outside Buckingham Palace.— Nathan Vasey
- I used to think that New Orleans was in Los Angeles, because I'd seen addresses written "New Orleans, LA".— Hilary
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic