When I was young, for some reason I was absolutely terrified of saying the word "please." My parents were always telling me that it was rude not to say please when you're asking for something, but somehow this only made me more scared. I still don't know what I was so frightened of.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to think that WHSmith was all one word, and was thus pronounced "Wwwhhhhuuusmith"— Nathan
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- For some reason I used to believe humans were made out of toothpaste— lu
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon
- As a child, my twin sister and I used to pronounce `Spaghetti' as `Mastaghetti'. Sounds a bit rude, no? Anon