When I was about 7 or 8 I hung around with a girl in the neighborhood who was about 12. One day some kids going by on a school bus flipped us the bird. I ased her what that meant. She said, "What's the worst word you could think of?" I said, "Sh**?" "No, no," she said, "it starts with an 'F.'" I stared at her blankly... "An F then a U..?" she said. Finally she gave up and just whispered it to me. I said, "What does that mean?" Frustrated, she walked away. I didn't find out until about four years later.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- i used to believe anyone who didn't live in my neighborhood was rich.— Spencer
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.