when my grandmother would want my mother to telephone her, she'd always say "Give me a ring". I thought she was literally telling my mother to buy her a ring. Since my mother would always agree, I imagined my grandmother to have some HUGE stash of rings omewhere...
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- at four, I thought my mother was female and me and my father were fee's Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When the Queen Mother died when I was quite upset because I thought royalty did not die.— Carrie
- My wife thought she was Elvis mother when she was 4. It was 1977 the same year he died. — sister vanilla