When I was very young, I thought eloping sounded very romantic, and that it always meant sneaking out the window down a ladder. Every time I saw a ladder left against a window, I thought it meant that someone had eloped the night before.
As an adult, I know of several people who eloped, and none of them used a ladder. They just got married without telling anyone until afterwards.
A childhood belief about marriage
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people eloped that meant they were making babies...Anon
- I used to think that the expression "The former or the latter?" was actually "The farmer or the ladder?" — Fitzwilliam
- When i was litttle i used to believe that if a had a long enough ladder a could touch the sky.— Sarah Howell
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I believed travel trailers had a pool on top because the curved ladder was the same.Anon
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy