I used to think grown-ups had this rule that when someone didn't hear what you said, you had to say it in another way. I remember this happening when I was watching tv with my mom.
The woman on tv said: "I think we should break up" the man would say: "What?!"
and the woman would reply: "It's just not working out".
I found it strange that the woman just didn't repeat what she said since the man didn't hear her. Instead she said something else and I never understood why....
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think Hannah Barbera was one woman...not two men. I didn't figure it out until I was about 15!— minkie
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I thought the line in the song "more than a woman" was "four-legged woman".— boo
- I used to think that the song "Evil Woman" was "Medieval Woman". Anon
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull