Once when I was a kid, I said to my mom, "Woudn't it be neat if they invented two machines: A mess-maker, and a mess-cleaner-upper?" She sarcastically replied, "Oh, I already have TWO mess-makers!"
For several minutes, I was impressed, but confused, wondering why she had opted to buy TWO mess-makers, and not a single mess-cleaner-upper, as that was clearly the more useful of the two inventions.
That is, until I realized that she was referring the my sister and me.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- I used to believe that if I pushed down on my upper eyelids too much, my eyes would pop out.— I Still Don't Touch My Eyelids
- I used to think that the upper struture on the caboose was the rest room.Anon
- As a child i was under the impression that the huge power station chimneys were cloud makers.— scruffyoik
- I used to think that "elbow grease" was an actual product of kitchen or surface cleaner.— Carrie
- I used to beleive that cerial killers were cerial makers who went around killing people!— Jenny