As a kid, I had a vague idea that "cheeks" and "jaws" were two different names for the very same body part. It was just that "cheeks" was a dainty and sweet-sounding word, while "jaws" was a coarse and rather unattractive word. So if I thought of someone as nice and likeable, I'd call the sides of his or her face "cheeks", while I'd use "jaws" for someone I considered mean or unlikeable. In the first grade I had a former friend, with whom I'd had a falling-out. After that the teacher one day accused him of talking when he wasn't supposed to be. He denied that he'd been talking. Then the teacher said, "Oh yes you were! I saw your little cheeks just going up and down!" Boy did I feel exasperated! While I was so out of sorts with this kid, the teacher had so unduly complimented him by calling his body part in question "cheeks" rather than "jaws". "HE has jaws, NOT cheeks!" I was indignantly saying to myself.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I use to believe I had holes in my bum cheeks for my farts to come out— jackL
- i used to think that your butt cheeks is where your poop was stored. Anon
- I used to believe that i was turning into a clown whenever I cried becase my cheeks and nose would become red— melissa
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- A friend believed that they used a tame shark during the filming of "Jaws".— Wendy
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny