Odd childhood logic

I thought my school invented the macarena.

I thought my dad made up the nickname 'coca cola' for coke.

I thought maybe we are already dead angels, looking back on our life as it played out.

 

Haha, I thought my school invented it, too! And the electric slide...lol.

 

When I was a little girl, I used to think that if I broke the televison screen, I could climb inside and be with the characters on the show I was watching.

I used to think if I dug a hole deep enough in my backyard that I would end up in China.

 

I used to think if I held my breath then my heart stopped beating.

 

I told my dad once that I had swam two miles under water. In actuality, I had really swam 12 feet down and 12 feet up, but in my mind if 12 inches was a foot then 12 feet must be a mile. I was so crushed when I found out that it was way less than two miles.

 

I thought the P in the No Parking sign meant "No Peeing".

I thought when our gas light would come on in the old station wagon, it meant that we were out of milk.

(If you're from Canada, the gas symbol looks a lot like a milk bag container)

 

My friends and I used to run around saying cheesecake. We thought it was some kind of joke work. We couldn't fathom a cake made out of cheese being a real thing.

 

When I went to infant school we had no hymn books and so hymns in assembly were learnt by heart. I started school in mid-term as we moved house. I thought for a long time that God led me to Partridge Green (a village near my gran's house) and that Shirley would follow me. Still think of this whenever 'the Lord's my Shepherd' is mentioned.