I was convinced for a long time that my elbow was my armpit. There WAS logic behind it: I wasn't thinking of the word "pit" as a hole or a hollow, but like the pit in a cherry or a peach. The bone in the elbow was round and hard like a peach pit, so I figured that that had to be the arm pit.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I called every body part my elbow. For example if my leg hurt I would say my elbow hurt.— Kady
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- When i was 5, i thought that you could lick your elbow....Anon
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I use to believe that kissing your elbow would make you change your sex when you woke up the next day.— Chuck
- I used to believe that if I could kiss my elbow that I would turn into a girl (the opposite sex).— Rusty