When I was a kid we had a neighbor called Old Man Sam, and if you stepped on his lawn he would chase you away because it was private property. So I thought Private Property was some kind of special designation he had gotten from the city.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- i used to think the word "friendship" meant a special kind of rocketship that you went on with your friends.— chips ahoy!
- I used to believe that electricity was manufactured in a factory in a place called 'Electriz City'.— Sally