I used to believe that you slowly acquired an English accent when you got old.
Of course, my grandmother, great aunt and great uncle came to the US from England in the early 1900's, but nobody had told me this when I was five or so.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- I used to think Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were a married couple. — l stu electtirc boogaloo
- When I was little I used to believe that God looked like the Great Gazoo (the alien from "The Flintstones").— Susan
- "God is good, God is great, lettuce thank him for our food Amen"— pj
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age