when i was little and learned how to "flick someone off", my dad found a way to stop my bad habit. he said, yes the middle finger is bad, but the pointer finger is worse, so i went around putting my pointer finger in peoples faces, and when they asked what it meant, i would say, "i dont know, but its something really bad"
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a half moon was gods finger nail, and his finger was pointing downwards.— clo
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- I used to believe that if my finger was ever cut off, it would grow back.— Chrissy
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly
- When I was little, I thought you had to put a finger under the water to make it hot. — M_2
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.— Jenny