Once, when I was 5, my brother and I were swimming in our pool. My fingers were starting to get wrinkly and I showed him. He told me that meant I was turning into an old lady. I cried.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming— Amy
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick
- Up until I was in 3rd grade I believed my bathing cap is what kept me afloat in the swimming pool! Anon
- When I was a kid I used to think the "carpool lane" was an actual pool cars went swimming in— skeez