When I was about four years old, my mother read a story to me that dealt with children of different colors. I asked my mother what color we were, and she answered, "We're white." I replied, "I'm not white; I'm beige." My mother just about died laughing.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz
- When the Queen Mother died when I was quite upset because I thought royalty did not die.— Carrie
- My wife thought she was Elvis mother when she was 4. It was 1977 the same year he died. — sister vanilla
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London