When I was about twelve or thirteen, my mother was reading me The Odyssey, and at one point, Queen Penelope has these men who want to marry her because they think Odysseus is dead, and they say, "We'll draw lots". I didn't know what that meant, so I thought it meant they'd draw (as in sketch) a lot of Odysseuses.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- As a kid, I thought "No Outlet" signs meant the houses past that point didn't have any electrical outlets.— Julie
- i used to believe you couldn't draw on erasers with pencils because it would erase itself— Samantha
- i used to think that freckles were when god got bored and he decided to draw on your face!— kelsey
- I used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)— scary ashley
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- When I saw signs stating "Lots for sale" I thought it meant that there was a lot for sale.— Robin