one day at a family party me and my cousin were about 4 and we were sitting outside with our 14 year old cousin and in the yard across the street a boy about 11 or 12 came out and gave me and my other 4 year old cousin the finger. we asked our older cousin what it meant and he jokingly told us it meant the boy loved us. so we acted all flirtacious and went on about a week giving cute boys the finger until our mothers told us it meant something bad ...
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- My 5-year old cousin used to believe the garbagemen were stealing their trash.Anon
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- Not me, but my cousin used to think wrinkle cream gave you wrinkles.Anon
- Someone told me that they cousin who used to think rain was God peeing.Anon