I used to think that "etc." at the end of a list of items meant electric. I was a very young reader, and since most everything adults did seemed strange, it didn't really occur to me to question such constructions as "dogs, cats, horses, cows, electric"
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cats were the girls and dogs were the guys. Same with cows and horses.Anon
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I use to believe if I ate something electronic Id have electric powers — jack L
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I used to think that if you put geraniums into electric switches it would blow up the whole world!— Steve Jeffs
- when i was little i believed that if you got three speeding tickets that you went to the electric chairAnon