My dad always insisted on using the correct anatomical terms for just about everything, although I thought they were just our family's "made-up" words for those things. When I got to first grade and had my first check-up by the mean old school nurse, I was horrified when she asked me if I "had made a B.M." I thought she must have been related!
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing
others believed things like this
- I thought Scott Joplin and Janis Joplin were related. Two musicians with the same last name - it made sense!— Rita
- There was a popular rumor back in grade school that BUBBLE YUM gum was made with spider eggs.— Amber
- I used to believe that the words Angliphile and Francophile were related to the word paedophiles.Anon
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- I used to believe Airplanes were things that made air plane- like took out scents, took out impurities, etc...— Emile