On the way to my grandparents' house, there was a Les Schwab tire store. For some reason, I had myself quietly convinced that it was a French word - as in "les schwab," the plural of "le schwab." I must have been 10 or 11 by the time I figured out that it was probably just founded by a man nicknamed Les.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha
- I used to think that you had to be french to really taste french fries.— Not French;)
- Up until 8th grade or so, I was convinced that I invented the word "Fart"— Jonah
- When I was little I thought that thunder was the bricks of our house banging together for some reason.— Ncik
- I used to believe that every time i went in a store that the grown ups had to buy me something.— jvf