When I asked my grandad what growing old meant, he replied it was like becoming an antique ... your chest sank into your drawers!
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- My grandad used to tell me that if i ate tripe, then it would put hairs all over my chest Anon
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.— Afterlife Dreamin'
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon
- My Grandad told me he invented carrots.— Nicole