I thought that when people got married, they just chose whatever surname in the world they wanted. I often wondered why they had chosen such a long and hard to spell one for our family!
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that my immediate family were the only people in the world that farted— Rainbow
- I once asked my dad what Jesus' surname was, and he said it was 'Sinclair'.
I believed it for years!— Rebekah - i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- I used to believe my dad was the best male figure in the world and wondered why he wasn't president already.— Ivy :)