When my sister, aged 10,was reading a book in the 1940's she said 'Dad, whats a brothel?' My father replied 'a sort of soup kitchen'. She believed this until she was married!
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think a brothel was another word for a soup kitchen.Anon
- i used to say 'our father, who art in heaven, hello whats your name?'— lou
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- I used to believe that a brothel was where poor people used to go to get free broth.— Rob. UK
- i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear