grown-ups

I used to believe…

When I wos littler I used to believe that God chose the job for you

I used to believe…

My sister is two years older than me, and when I was a little kid, I believed it was possible for me to some day catch up in age with her and maybe even be older than her! At my birthday every year, I would anxiously check to see if we were closer in age than we had been before the birthday, but we never were...

I was (and still am) an only child, and begged my parents for a little sibling (sister preferrably), my parents never came around to having one, so I made up fake ones.

I used to think that grown-ups were always grown-ups and kids will always be kids

I was always a big kid. I was the only one in the elementary school who ordered the plain milk cartoons. I thought that it was why i was so tall. It had aged me. Thi smade me sad because i thought when i hit 30 i'd look 70.

I used to believe that when a couple eloped, they stepped inside a cantalope and the priest was in there to marry them. That's why thier parents would always say "You can't elope! (cantalope) We want to be there!" because they couldn't see inside the cantalope.

I used to believe…

My grandmother had alzheimers, and when I was little and heard the grown-ups talking about it, I always thought they were saying "old-timers".

I used to believe that woman had to pay to keep their last name when they got married!!!!!!!

I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.

I used to believe that when people were crying at weddings, it was not that they were happy for the people getting married, it was that the family and friends would miss the couple very much while the couple was on their honeymoon. I always wondered why they cried so much, after all, the couple wasn't going to be gone for TOO long!

I used to believe…

When I was very young I wanted to be an astronaut. My hopes were dashed when I read some description of space travel that mentioned that a Saturn V rocket cost over a million dollars to build.

Oh no, I thought. I would never be able to afford that.

I noticed that there were lots of short old people so i used to believe that when you became an old person, you would start shrinking again.

I used to believe…

There are seven years between me and my closest sibling. When I was little my older brother and sister told me that our mom paid them five dollars a day to talk to me. They also said that if they were nice to me when they talked they got an extra ten dollars. This infuriated me as a child and I would refuse to talk to them! I guess it kept me out of their hair!

I used to believe…

When my sister was in first grade, all the kids had to write down what they wanted to be for the yearbook....my sister wanted to be an old farmer woman

I used to believe…

My cousins (who were older than us) told me and my other cousins that we were all born in China, but we fell in a well and fell all the way to our parents houses and that they adopted us. I thought that was true for several years.

I used to believe…

when i was little i always thought that my mom was a elien from pluto!!!!