When I was young I used to believe that everyone got to pick their last name out of the phone book. I always wondered why some people picked the dumbest names.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- when i was young, when some 1 said time flies, i wondered why there wernt clocks flying aroun— Necrid
- I used to believe a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- i always wondered why people sent plums to the queen, in the anthem "send her victorias"— anon uk