When I was young and I first heard the term "box your ears" I always imagined someone taking a hole punch to someones earlobes and punching a hole through them. To this day, I still do not understand this term.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel
- I thought the term maiden name actually applied to women who were maidens.— Natasha
- i used to think that the term 'necking' referred to boyfriends and girlfriends who rubbed their necks togetherAnon
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS