My parents were of different religions, so neither one prayed out loud. When I went to catholic shool, I was inundated with all these prayers. The nuns always led the prayers very rapidly so I mis-heard some of the words. There was a line in particular which startled me. Instead of hearing "fruit of thy womb, Jesus" in the Hail Mary prayer I kept hearing "Fruit of the Loom Jesus". That really boggled my imagination. I could not imagine how the Fruit of the Loom company got an ad for underwear inserted into a prayer. I used to wonder how much that cost and who they paid it to.
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- "Hail Mary full of grapes" And "The Fruit Of The Loom, Jesus."— Silly Little Girl
- My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.— Richard Davies
- When I was 4, I thought that if I ate Fruit Gushers, my head would turn into a fruit. — Joe
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels
- In the Hail Mary prayer, I used to say 'Bless a dark fowl among women' rather than 'blessed art though'Anon
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine