I used to believe…
When I was younger my Dad told me that people temporarily lost their hearing during their teenage years, which is why they turned up their music so loud. He's a doctor and I believed him for years!
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I used to believe…
When i was young i used to believe that a person had a job where they but blue food coloring into the ocean to make it blue. Since the water that came out of the sink was always clear i thought they were trying to make the ocean more interesting so more people would come.
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I used to believe that all godfathers were Italian.
I used to believe…
When I was really young I thought that aunts were aunts when they were young and became grandmas when they got older.
I used to believe…
When I was little I thought that when you grew up you could become an animal for your job. I wanted to be a seal.
i used to beleive that the prefix "self" meant "un" or "not" (god knows why, but i was reminded of this because my son recently made a similar mistake so i cant be the only one - it just felt like it meant that)#
anyway - because of that my mum once asked me what i wanted to do when i grow up
i said "self employed"
my mum said "oh, great, so what are you going to be doing then?" and i of course, said
"nothing of course (like, duh) cos i had truly meant unemployed. needless to say this didnt go down too well ...
unemployment is an ambition i have tried diligently to realise and i am proud to say that i have indeed enjoyed several long sabbaticals in accordance with my childhood dream, with only short intervals of regular employment to spoil things
I used to believe…
When I was little i thought at weddings a crowd of people would stand outside of a church building and ask another random person to marry them. Then I supposed the best couple would be elected to get married. I have no idea how i came up with this...
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When i was a kid, i wanted to be a maid because i thought that my maid was getting paid soooo much money ($400 a month seemed like a lot to me) and she got to hang out at home all day
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I used to believe that the "Employees Only" room in the back of the store was where the employees lived.
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When I was younger my dad used to like to tell me little brain teasers. One day he asked me, "I a tree falls in the forest with no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" But I didn't get it. I just said how would I know? I can only hear it fall if I'm there and then there IS someone there to hear it! I didn't understand why he was asking me something that there was absolutely no way I could know the answer.
I used to secretly believe my Dad was Elvis living a secret life with my Mom and me under an alias. The way he curled his lip and sang was so convincing and it would always make my Mom swoon.
I used to believe…
hen i was young and far from the concept of babies, i arrived at my own conclusion and even explained to my mom -" in my opinion there must be something in the wedding neckband(in hindu culture we use the neckband instead of the ring) which actually causes the woman to bear babies. otherwise why on earth would women become pregnant only after they are married ".
my mom just laughed diminishing my enthusiasm to publish my findings!
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when i was little, i used ro thought that my mum and dad would leave me someday. eventually i got scared and started to have nightmares that my mum and dad left me for another better kid. i started to cling to them and finally i opened up to them. they promised me that they would never leave me. from then onwards, i always felt safer.
I used to believe…
When I was about eight years old my mom asked me one day, what do I want to become when I grow up? I told my mom that I want to become a boy or a man, because i thought that we change gender in a certain stage of growing up.
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I thought that you were born at a certain age. I thought my Nanna was born that big and old. :-)
I used to believe…
Whan I was younger I never understood why someone would like to be a a boss. The boss is the one that has to pay all the workers, and why would you wnat to have a job were you have to pay instead of getting paid.
I don't know why, but I used to believe that matches got sulphur on one end because people sat at a table, dipping each match in it. I pictured it as a factory of some sort, and I felt sorry for the people having that as a job, because it must have been very boring.
I asked my Mum what a honeymoon was for. She said it was so the bride and groom could get to know each other. I therefore thought that when you got married the couple didn't know each other.
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I used to believe…
When I was little, I overheard my dad tell my mom about a co-worker who had been fired. I thought they had poured gasoline over him and struck a match.
I used to believe that boys had to go to school all their lives whereas girls could stay at home and play. I thought that was really unfair. It was a long time before I realised my father went to school because he was a schoolteacher and my mother stayed at home and played with me because she was a housewife.