grown-ups

I remember back when I was about four or five, I was afraid of firemen. I thought they came to set your house on fire.

So, one day you can hear the firetruck going down the street. I heard it and screamed! I ran into my room, I think I stayed there for about 40 minutes!

I used to believe…

When I was younger I used to hear over and over again how a lady should act. One day when I was about 5 my mother asked me "don't you want to be a lady when you grow up?"

I responded quite frankly: "I don't want to be a lady, I want to be a woman!"

I used to believe…

As a child, my cousin was so insistant that I would marry him when we were adults. He used to calmly say, "Yes, we will," and I'd yell, "NO, WE WON'T!!!!" All of the adults in our family would ignore us and never try to stop him, so I believed they were all in on a plot to force me to marry my cousin when we were of age.

I used to believe that the morning I woke up for college we'd have to buy me all new clothes because then I would be an adult and wouldn't be able to fit into child's clothes anymore.

I used to believe…

Okay this actually something my sister believed but i think it's hilarious. First of all my family is the whitest white family there is but when my brother laughs his eyes srunch up like an Oriental persons would. So, my sister asked why and my grandmother told her that we had Japanese heritage in our family. She believed it for years. Turns out we are 100% Irish.

I used to believe…

When I used to watch my grandmother read, she looked down at the book so that it looked like her eyes were closed. After seeing my mother do this too, I figured that when you got older, you were able to read books with your eyes closed!

I believed that two people couldn't get married unless they were the same religion and the man was older than the woman.

I used to believe…

When my best friend's younger sister was around three years old, her family was having dinner with the preacher. Trying to make conversation with the kids, the preacher asked them both what they wanted to be when they grew up. The younger sister proudly replied, "A toothbrush!". She thought that would be the perfect occupation, because you got to be very useful to people but you only had to work three times a day. My friend swears that's the only time she ever heard her preacher laugh.

I used to believe…

when i was little and my dad came home and told my mom he fired someone from i work, i always thought he through them into a fire place and burned them so i would start crying when i watched tv and a guy told his employee he was fired, i thought they would get burned up

I used to believe…

When I was younger I thought that all the adults where wearing masks and only when I'm not there they would take off their masks and show their horrible monster faces.

I used to believe…

when I was younger, I used to believe that my parents got married and were trying to keep it secret from me. (they never got married) One time I found a prom picture and swore it was they're wedding picture. I was mad at them for not telling me.

I used to believe my sister was an Alien Princess, who would be taken away from us if she was made to do housework. It took 4 years of doing her chores before I cottoned on

i grew up watching ppl thankin god after a couple was blessed wid a baby...i nvr cud relate the connection between marriage n god n kid...i used to bemused wid how come an invisible god comes to know bout marriages n blesses ppl wid kids n sometimes even before marriage...

I used to believe…

When you're little, the standard question from grown-ups is always, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Since everybody kept asking me, I thought that I had until my high school graduation to decide, and then that would be my job from that day on. I could never understand why everybody didn't decide to be rich and famous.

I used to believe…

When i was a little girl i was very tall for my age and i used to be very proud of it and always stod up straight then a another little girl said it was better to be small and i didn't question this and deceided i had to be small so everyday afetr school i thought that i should try and curl myself into a ball so i could be small because i thought all my standing up straight had made me tall so for half an hour i made my self into a little ball and then i would empty out a little cupboard and see if I could fit in if I could i would say that my work will be done needless to say i never did.

I used to believe that the only people that went to college were Jamaicans