One particular babysitter of mine was comforting me after I became hysterical and was crying over something or other. She started cooing "Calm down, it's okay." Having never heard anyone use the phrase "calm down", I thought she was saying "come down" (as in "come down out of the tree", or off of something high off). I looked up at her and said "Come down from where? I'm not on anything, i'm right here."
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- i thought that the phrase "jet lag" was actually "jet leg" until i was 17...— truffles
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I thought the phrase "At one's disposal" meant you should dispose of the person or thing.— Geirskogul
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica