At my preschool there was this girl named Ally. But my teacher had a bit of an accent, so I thought her name was Owie, which is what I called cuts, bruises, scrapes, etc. I could never figure out why her parents would name her that. Poor Owie.
A childhood belief about names
others believed things like this
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!— Kat
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!
— Katy - i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly
- I used to believe that bruises were mouldy blood. — LLB 91
- I used to believe that bruises were rotten blood. — llb91