When I was 3, I used to think that "dawdling" was touching your private area. So my mom would say "Stop dawdling! We gotta go! " I would get upset and say "I'm not touching my wee wee!"
A childhood belief about rude bits
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- When I was younger I was certain my "private" was called a ba-china... the boy's were pickles. — taliba
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- I thought if 3 cards stopped at a 3-way stop sign then they had to stop forever until Christmas.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson