As a young boy, I became possessed of the belief that every person had a hard limit of 3,000 or so on how many times he could use each word. There was a time when I found my communicative faculties greatly diminished by an unwillingness to waste unnecessary uses of "yes" or "no" on what I considered to be trivial matters.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that there was a time limit whilst using the loo.— Helen
- When I was young, I heard the word 'minion' for the first time and thought it was a miniature onion.— Karin
- I used to believe that I couldn't eat deviled eggs because they were from satan and possessed.— Char
- I used to believe there was a limit on the numbers you could count — Carmen
- for years i was afraid to throw up because i thought it meant i was possessed like in the exorcist.Anon
- When I was a kid I found it hard to say "Sebastian". I always pronounced it "Sebastican". — Dave, Lancashire