When I was in kindergarten, my father ran his own construction company. When he came home one day complaining to my Mom about how he was going to have to fire a guy, I thought he meant that he was going to burn the guy at the stake, on top of a big bonfire of leftover construction materials.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- I used to believe that "Our Father, who art in heaven" meant that God was also a painter on the side. — Amanda