grown-ups

I used to believe…

When I was very little (about 5) I believed with every fibre of my being that at the age ten you could turn into any animal of your choosing. I guess by ten I knew it wasn't really true but the let down was incredible.

i used to think when you were 1 you were in 1st grade, 2 2nd grade etc. i also thought that when u were 1 you were 1 foot tall and so one and i wondered why i never saw any 40 foot people

I used to believe…

when I was little my mom drove a van, and I thought it was my school bus because I had an older brother and sister... so every time she stopped she had to act like she opened the door and kids would get on, I sat in the back of the van because I thought it was where the 'cool kids' sat.. just like my older brother and sister.

I was convinced that my parent's were aliens. I truly believed that aliens had come to earth and abducted my parents, and that my mammy and daddy were out in the garden shed, tied up on chairs and unable to escape. I used to go out to the shed and peer in, trying to see them, but to no avail. So I spent day after day scared that my alien parents were going to kill me....healthy stuff right there.

I thought firemen went around burning up people's houses. For years, I went hysterical whenever I saw a firetruck. Those hats and red raincoats were SO scary. How could these people be allowed to go around burning houses down? I figured 'cause they got the biggest trucks and they were too scary for anyone to want to try to stop them.

I used to believe…

When my parents would have an argument, and one would threaten the other about going to jail, I used to think that meant that one of them would be shoved down into the toothpaste bottle by the other.

I used to believe that as you grew up, you started as a girl, then became a boy, then became a girl and so on and so on. I would ask when I was going to be a boy until my mom finally put it all together.

I noticed when I was about 8 or 9 that my Great Aunts had smooth legs and wrinkled faces. I concluded the bottom half was the Aunt and the top hald of them was the Great. Aunts were younger and "Great" was older just like Great Grand Ma. I didn't realize they had on support hose, until I ask to touch their legs....Then I was really confused.

I used to believe…

When I was young I used to think that if your parents yelled the word "Divorce" at each other at the same time, that they were divorced. I remember freaking out one night at dinner when my parents were talking about a friends' divorce and praying to God they wouldn't say the word divorce at the same time!

I used to believe…

When I was in first grade the teacher was going around the room asking everyone what they wanted to be when they grew up. The kid next to me said when he grew up he wanted to be a robot.

I used to believe…

When I was little my dad got a job as a dispatcher at the local police station. Until I was about 6 I believed that he was a "ditch patcher" and thought he fixed holes in ditches. Even visiting him at work didn't dispel my visions of him filling in holes with dirt from a bucket.

I used to believe…

When I was a child, my father would threaten to whip us with his RAZOR strap. I had truly visualized a belt filled with razors.Well the day finally came! We were playing football in the house and my older brother put my older sister through the livingroom wall. Well my Dad said thats it! He went to his room and got the RAZOR belt. He brought it to the livingroom and all it was, was a pieca of leather. My brother and sister and I all looked at each other and started laughing so hard. We explained to our Dad why we were laughing and he started laughing too. We never got the whipping!!

I used to believe…

My great-grandmother was Hungarian. She passed on some of her sayings to my mother. So, whenever I was bad, Mom would say, "I'm going to sell you to the gypsies!"

I used to believe…

When I was young my parents & I lived in another city than both of my grandparents.
All my grandparents lived in a retirementflat in the city of The Hague, NL. So I thought at an age of 5yrs old that every ones grandparents lived in The Hague, and that that city was especially designed for grandparents to live

I used to think that growing up happened overnight. That I would one night go to bed and wake up and grown woman. I would pray when I went to bed that the next day I could be a grown-up and start my grown-up life!

I used to believe…

When i was 5 i believed humans carried on growing forever until we would reach the height of the ceiling until we died. (Don't ask Why, but i did). However i couldn't understand why my parents and other members of my family stopped growing but i was always convieved i would be taller than them. I'm 19 now and yes i'm taller than my parents, only by 4 ins.