On a few occasions I'd perused a newspaper and, in an article about the army, noticed that many people had names such as "Pte Johnson". Not knowing that Pte was an abbreviation for "private", I assumed that they were all named Pete but for one reason or another their parents misspelled it on their birth certificate. It then followed logically that this was why there were so many people with this name in the army -- if they had parents with such basic skills as the ability to correctly spell Pete, they may have been able to get a job doing something else.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson
- I used to believe that the salvation army was an actual army.Anon
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- I used to believe my parents names were mom and dad till i was 9— Sophiae
- As my parents had given me a name, I thought that it was up to me to give them names tooAnon