When I was a little girl in Kindergarten the teacher asked everyone, "what they wanted to be when they grew up"? I answered, a monkey! Because monkey's don't work and they just hang around all day and have fun at the zoo and at the circus.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I thought a Monkey was just a baby Gorilla and when they grew up their Tails fell off!— Brainhead
- when asked what i would like to be when i grew up, as a girl of about 5, i answered "a horsey".Anon
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- when i was a kid i used to believe the monkey could speak— killian
- i used to think that kiwis were monkey eggs— alyssa
- I used to think monk was short for monkey.Anon