In my family, before leaving the dinner table, one was required to ask, "May I be excuse?" I never quite heard anyone right when they said it, and for years and years I mumbled something like "May-beg-screws?" until I finally figured it out.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- few years ago, finally I found out that asparagus are not big sea fishes.. — nixass
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob
- Until I was well along in years I always thought our family was Irish because my dads birthday was March 17th— Gladys
- For years I heard the word "pedophile" and thought it meant a pedicurist's tool.— Lauren
- My favorite excuse:
Must be those trouser geese again!— Tootie Fruity - For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela