grown-ups

I remember the first time I learned there was a place in hospital called 'casualty', I assumed it must be the 'casual' area - where all the doctors wear jeans + t-shirts + just lay around doing nothing all day.

I used to believe that I would grow up to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

I used to believed that the canes that old people used were just any old sticks. One day I wanted to play with my great-aunt's walking cane so I got a large piece of fire wood and replaced it with her walking stick. The fire wood looked a lot more sturdy than the flimsy cane, I didn't understand why I got in trouble for it if I was doing her a favor.

I used to believe…

When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I believed that, just as little kids were in the process of growing bigger and older, adults were in the process of growing younger and littler. So I thought that my parents would one day be little children again. Weirder still, I thought that I had previously been an adult and would talk about things that I'd done when I was. I'd say things like, "When I was big, I had a car like that." Or "When I was big, I used to smoke." If were someone who believed even remotely in the possibility of reincarnation--which I absolutely do not--I would almost wonder whether I was recalling snippets of past lives.

I used to believe…

When I was a little girl in Kindergarten the teacher asked everyone, "what they wanted to be when they grew up"? I answered, a monkey! Because monkey's don't work and they just hang around all day and have fun at the zoo and at the circus.

I was so captavated by the Oriental Clothing and how beautiful the Geisha were, that I told my Mom that when I grew up I was going to be Chinese.
(she had to rethink that whole "you can be anything you want to be when you grow up speech, as we are Irish and Italian) LOL

I used to believe…

Our grandmother, with the cooperation of all of our other relatives, fostered the belief in us that, if we were bad, we could be taken to "Jones's Home," a terrible kind of orphanage where we ould live out the rest of our childhoods in abusive misery and squalor.

I used to believe…

My parents have the same middle name (thou spelled different) so when i was little I believed that when a man and woman got married the woman took both the middle and last name of the man.

I used to believe…

when my sister was little she used to get really angry about the fact that i was older than her but used to think that one day she would be older when she'd grow up she thought that i would grow down and be little for the first time she didn't realise that i was little before she was born. She now realises that i will always be bigger, better and cleverer than her and i've told her that she just has to get over it because its never going to change!!! HA HA !!!

I used to believe…

When I was little I, for some reason, thought that my mother only made five dollars on every paycheck. I was always happy on the days that she got paid, but always wondered how we could afford things with only five dollars every other week.

I used to believe…

When I was about 9, my Grandma was living with us. She had dentures, but I had no idea. One night I was getting ready for bed and found teeth in a glass in my bathroom. I ran frantic into my mom's room telling her that someone's teeth were in my bathroom. She told me they were Grandma's, but I didn't believe her. When we went to say goodnight to her, I kept trying to get her to talk so I could look in her mouth. I was completely amazed when she did open her mouth, there were no teeth in there. I was scared.

I used to believe…

When my grandmother went to China to live for a few years I told my little sister (then 8) that when she came back she would look Chinese and only speak Chinese. She was convinced that this was true.

I used to believe…

when I was young I had older cousins than usded to pick on me all the time. When i was five till 7 I had ketp telling myself I wolud be older than them some day and thatI would give them a tast of their own medcine. But evey timr i turned a year older they did too so i went and told my mom a bout this and she said to me that would never happen and and explined and after she had a little laughf . I was soo dissapointed .

I used to believe Molly Meldrum could do any mans job. I imagined him as a plumber, builder, painter etc..

I used to believe…

WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I THOUGHT THAT MY FATHER WAS THE DEMON WHEN HE GOT ANGRY AT MY, I REALY BELIEVE THAT

I used to believe that my mom was extremely old due to a black and white picture of her riding a carriage. Ten years later I finally figured out it was one of those old time photos from an amusement park!