I used to think that "retired" and "retarded" meant the same thing. I once saw a bumpersticker on an old man's truck that had the word "retired" on it, and I remember feeling so sorry for that man. Jeez.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think that retarded was the same word as retired.Anon
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- I used to believe that being wasted meant feeling really tired. Anon
- My mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon
- my husband believed, until recently, that the word "several" meant seven of something. — sheryl
- I used to believe that "nuptial" was a naughty word. I thought it meant nipple. XD— Sara Hagen