My dad used to tell my brother and I we were 'pukes', not telling us what that meant and we thought we had some weird problems. Later he told us that he called my brother and I 'pukes' because we are half Polish and half Ukrainian.
A childhood belief about nationalities
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- As a youngster, my older brother told me that polish sausage was really the bull's genitals. — Ross
- Polish war memorial ,I thought it was an instruction.as in to polish— oddsox
- when i was4 and a half i thought i would be 5 feet in kindergarten— Katrina S.
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- my brother stopped me sucking my thumb by telling me the scissor man would come and cut it off
he was evilAnon