When I was little I used to get terribly frustrated at the open/closed signs at shops and restaurants. It was before I knew about contractions in grammar so I always read "Sorry we're closed" as "Sorry, we re-closed" (implying that they were currently closed and we had just missed them), and I read "Yes we're open" as "Yes, we re-open" (implying that they were closed at the moment, but intended to open again at some point in the future). So I though that shops with these signs were always closed, and I couldn't understand why they needed two different signs to say the same thing. It seemed so terribly inefficient!
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to believe that if I closed one eye, the people on that side couldn't see me.— KM
- I used to believe that when I closed my eyes, nobody could see me. — Jens
- I used to think if i closed my eyes noone could see meAnon
- My sister used to think that nobody could see her if she closed her eyes.— Dave
- I used to believe that when you closed you eyes you were invisible and no-one could see you!— Andrew