As a kid, I believed that Little Red Riding Hood was "Little Red Writing Hood". I found considerable cause for puzzlement in wondering what her hood had to do with writing.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think "Robin Hood and his merry men" was "Robin Hood and his *married* men."Anon
- I used to believe that when people wrote in cursive, they were writing in Spanish.— Ellen
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon
- I used to think making straight A's in school was literally writing A's straight. Anon