The day I turned nine I had to ask my mother how old I was going to be. Sarcastically, she answered, "Nine hundred! How old do you think you are, dummy?!" I went all the rest of that week thinking I was nine hundred years old.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- I use to believe that I could understand what my cat was thinking/saying. So I translated for about 2 years.— Cat Speaker
- when asked what i would like to be when i grew up, as a girl of about 5, i answered "a horsey".Anon
- I used to talk with my teddy bear and I really thought he answered me.— Joy
- as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.— twk