My mother use to say to my sister & I when we were in elementary school that if we consistently disobeyed her or gave her a hard time, she would call "Mr. Jones" to have us sent to his "farm" for bad children.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- When I was in elementary school, I believed my heart moved across my chest throughout the day.— Allison
- One of my friends in elementary school thought that Osama bin Laden was "a son of Aladdin". Anon
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth