My niece publicly chastised her mother church one day for introducing her to someone named Dick, much to the embarrassment of her mother and the gentleman. My niece thought her mother was referring to the man by the slang term for male genitalia, not realizing that it is an actual name.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- "Chassis" is slang for a woman's body, especially her genitalia.
— Siddharth Mehrotra - My niece used to believe that I lived in the sky because she always saw me leave for school on an airplane.Anon
- My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows— Russ
- at four, I thought my mother was female and me and my father were fee's Anon
- 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