When I was little, in the 80's, fur coats were still very popular for women, even in the relatively mild climate of central Maryland. My mom badly wanted one, but we couldn't really afford it (and I gave her a very hard time about wearing a dead animal, even at the age of 5).
She would still look every time we were in a coat store, and so I would follow her through the racks, touching each one, because I liked how soft the fur was, even if I didn't approve.
She pulled one floor length coat off the rack, held it up, and said "This one is Australian opposum". Knowing that North American possums are fairly small animals, and not understanding that multiple pelts got sewn together, my eyes got huge and I said "How big do they get there?" She laughed til her face turned red and she had tears streaming down her cheeks.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a stranger was a man with an X on his coat— Gabe
- When I was a wee one I believed dogs were either black or white underneath thier coat....It was the 60's.— maddog
- Maryland was actually a huge amusement park, i.e. Merry-Land, like Disneyland. — Julianne
- There was a time when I thought euthanasia was when veteranarians turned other animals into fish.— Catfish
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin