For some reason I thought that the word "tardy" meant dirty. One time in 3rd grade I was late to school, so my dad was writing a letter to my teacher and I was reading over his shoulder, and when I saw what he wrote, I exclaimed "Why would you say I'm tardy?!" and started checking my sweater for dirt and smoothing down my hair. He told me that it just meant late, but I still insisted that he change the word to "late" not tardy, because I was not dirty!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- I used to think that my teacher lived at school until she came to school late one day. I was shocked!— Wow, you have a life?!
- a friend thought that the song "dirty deeds done dirt cheap" was saying "dirty deeds dunderchief"— dubs
- I used to think that girls' anuses were green. I remember thinking that as late as high school.— Jack
- I used to believe that when the sky was pink, late at the afternoon, the angels made cookies!— Bella
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny