from the mouth of babes

i don’t know why i was reminiscing about this today, but do you remember some of the things you used to think as a kid? and how long did you think those things before somebody caught you on it?

for example, i used to think that high school was just a giant gym filled with cones and faux street signs where students would drive cars around all day with their teachers. just one huge drivers’ ed. it was a sad day when i figured out it was much more boring than that and pep rallies in the gym just never cut it. except that one time when my friend ditched a pep rally and went to mcdonalds instead and won the million dollar monopoly game because she got park place. it’s impossible to get park place. not when you ditch pep rallies though. let this be a lesson to you.

dustin (being the mad scientist he is) used to think that cars didn’t actually move. he figured that since the world moves, the cars must just move along with the world. i’m not quite sure how he figured cars passed in opposite directions...i was always smarter than dustin…

i thought up until college…yes college… that the phrase “take it with a grain of salt” was actually “take it with a great assault.” it’s that violent streak in me i guess

meghan was convinced that once she got married, she’d move into our parent’s room. like a passing of batons, circle of life sort of thing. when our parents asked where they would go, she said “you can live in my room.” talking about moving up

my friend (well, maybe not entirely a friend. more like somebody i heard on the radio) grew up thinking that clowns were their own race of people. like chinese, indian, american, clown. that would mean being afraid of clowns is morally wrong and considered prejudice. how sad would that be?

meghan’s friend (i’m hesitant to write this knowing said friend reads this…but how could I not? it’s my favorite story ever) used to think that the “f-word” was FAgina. fuh-gine-a. like the girly part. only with a fa. brilliant