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- Getting fired means being set on fire.
- You can be literally anything you want - animal, vegetable or mineral
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This is something I shouldn't say,but I ought to.
Until I understood what busy phones were,when I heard that telephone lines were busy,I actually thought they were doing some kind of work and could not be talked to by anyone until they finished their shift.
epimeno01
i used to think that the "graveyard shift" meant that they actually had to go out and dig graves.
Up until about 5 minutes ago, when I read a similar belief on this site, I used to think candy stripers in hospitals were called candy strippers. I'm 16. I never thought that they were actually strippers, I just thought it was part of the name. Thankfully I don't think I've ever said 'candy stripper' out loud to anyone, that I know of. Still, I feel stupid now XD
Lisa
top belief!
When I was a kid I thought that when mum and dad were working, they were playing video games. I walked in on my dad typing and was suprised.
Carole-Ann
top belief!
I used to believe that god made all of the builders first so that they could build all the houses for the other people.
Jodie
At the age of 4 & 5 I remember how very proud I was of my father who worked "graveyard" at the nearby underground mine. My impression that made me so proud was that every night he went to the graveyard and watched over and kept the dead safe. I was also somewhat concerned that something bad might happen to him because of the a scarry job he had.
Sherm
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I used to believe (until I was 12!) that when I went to the dentist, the sound that the drill made was the cavities screaming because they were being destroyed.
dentistgirl
top belief!
I used to believe that when an adult said they were "going to work", it meant that they would all go to the same big building where they would each turn a giant nut on a screw with a huge wrench for hours.
Alex
I used to believe that a prostatute was a type of lawyer, and when a motavational speaker was talking about her mom being one I didn't understand what was so terrible about that!
anon
When i was about 6 or 7 and right up until i was about 13 i believed that football players had to be born in that place to play for that team. So if you played for Liverpool it was because you were born there.
Georgie Girl
when I was about 15 I thought that wet nurses changed diapers. This was cleared up when I told my mom that my kids were going to have a wet nurse.
Joy
i heard my mother say once that she got paid "under the table" and i thought that she literally had to get underneath a table to collect her money..lol
renee
I used to believe that telephone operators worked in toll booths. They connected calls when they weren't taking toll money from drivers.
when my mother talked about being "paid under
the table", i thought she actually had to get under
a table (with her boss) to get her money. i also
believed that "getting fired" meant your boss would
come after you with actual fire. which, i suppose,
could really happen.
thursday jane
top belief!
when i was little, my mother was vice president of a bank. i went to her work when there was a kiddie carnival event and she was working the hot dog stand. from then on whenever anyone asked me what my mother did, i told them "she sells hot dogs at the bank.
When my brother and I were young, our mother worked for Boeing and made ducts for planes. We always thought that she worked at bowling and made ducks. We would get angry because she wouldn't take us to see.
I used to believe that you had to pay a one time sum to get a job and that the amount depended on how good the job was.
I used to believe that the only occupations that I could ever have when I grew up were a policeman, a fireman, or an ambulance driver.
Daniel
When I was little and my sister asked me what I wanted to be, I replied "A Teddy Bear"
and I was serious. I believed I could be a Teddy Bear.
Meera
top belief!
When I was about 5 or 6, I really admired those girls who worked at the hospital and wore red and white striped uniforms. I had seen that these girls were called candy stripers. Unfortunately I misprounced it. When people asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would tell them proudly "candy stripper!"
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