My mum would never let anyone swear around my brothers and me when we were children, and if they did, she'd ask them to apologise to us for it. I learnt to speak very early but had a speech impediment for a few years. One day at pelican crossing, while we were waiting for the lights to change, a large and imposing lady walked up with her dog and ordered it to "SIT!"
Of course I looked up at her from my buggy and told her, "You sould apolodise to me for saying dat."
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could change street lights with my mindAnon
- Sometimes God looked like Rafi, the children's singer, and sometimes like Ella Fitzgerald.— Annie
- I used to think that Chris de burgh song Lady in red was Lady in Bread
— Omega-R-Fox - My Brother used to think that Chris de Burgh was singing 'Lady in bed' instead of lady in red'— Kerry, Manchester
- I used to think the song "dude looks like a lady" by aerosmith was "doodles like a lady"— I used to believe
- I used to think you could go to jail just by saying a word wrong during a speech.Anon