When I was little I guess 3 or 4 the Housont Oilers fired Bum Phillips as their coach. So my mom came to me and said the Oilers fired Bum Phillips and I started bawling. It took her a while to figure out that in my mind I thought they had shot him. As in Ready, Aim ,Fire.
A childhood belief about sport
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you were fired, you were shot.— Murray
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - I thought "deployed" meant "fired".Anon
- I used to think that blow-jobs happened when you got fired from a job— MeGaN
- My daughter used to believe that when someone is fired from their job, it meant it literally.— Sally's mommy