My daughter used to believe that when someone is fired from their job, it meant it literally.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- I thought "deployed" meant "fired".Anon
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- I used to believ that "Shooting the Bull" literally meant what it states.— DJ
- I used to believe that when you were fired, you were shot.— Murray