When I was about 3 or 4, I remember my grandmother introducing me to some acquaintance of hers and telling me to "say hello to the nice gentleman." Since I had never seen this man before, I thought that "gentleman" meant the same thing as "stranger." I didn't say anything to the gentleman because I had been taught never to talk to strangers. My grandmother gave me a talking to afterward about being rude.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- i used to think my grandmother's actual name was Gramma!— el kristadore!
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- I used to think that my grandmother was a pioneer from the covered wagon days.— jasonchic
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx