When I was about seven, my cousins and I believed it was okay to say curse words as long as you apologized to God directly afterwards. We would tentatively whisper, "Dammit!" and then look up at the sky and shout, "SORRY, GOD!!!!"
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- I used to think you had to get special permission from your parents to use curse words— zeitgeist
- I used to think that Dammit was God's last name.— M. Pasternak
- I used to think that your cousins are your cousins only until they're 21, then they become your aunt,or uncle!— AMILA
- I thought "sake" was a curse word— shh
- I used to believe that when you turned up the volume on the T.V the people had to shout louder.— Tanana
- My sister used to think that there was an oil well under every gas station that led directly to the gas pump.Anon