When I was about 11 or 12, kids at school started talking about "going out" with each other (as a term for dating). I thought they meant literally going out, and I wondered where they would go in such a small town as ours.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel
- My daughter used to believe that when someone is fired from their job, it meant it literally.— Sally's mommy
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I used to believ that "Shooting the Bull" literally meant what it states.— DJ
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon