the american life...

I'm listening to "This American Life" and this one segment (dare I say, an "act") has people talk about various words or ideas that they believed when they were younger and continued to believe into adulthood.
For example, one lady thought the "children xing" signs around schools were "children zing," not "children crossing."
She figured that children had to zing across the street, as to not get run over, so it made sense.
She believed this well into her 30's.
It's funny, because when I was younger, I believed that same exact thing and pronounced it the same exact way.

Another thing that tripped me out, and I'm sure I'm not alone, was the 14kt necklace.
I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old, sitting in the living room with my mom and my brother.
My brother's 14kt necklace broke at the latch, so he and my mama were trying to fix it.
As they were doing this and that, my mom pointed out that the necklace was 14kts.
"14 carrots???" I thought.
Now, that's crazy.
How can a necklace have 14 carrots?
And, why can't I see these carrots?
I remember staring at that necklace and imagining these teeny-tiny carrots dangling on the chain... 14 of them, as a matter of fact.
Of course, they are too small for the eye to see...
But, I truly believed that somewhere on that necklace lived 14 little carrots.

I also remember when I was younger, I thought that babies came out of the belly button.
puhahahaha.

I also remember reading the line, "the ogre walked down the aisle" as "the og-ree walked down the ai-slee."
I'm sure Ched remembers this too because this line came out of a book that I was reading to her.
And, she laughed and laughed and corrected me.
Yes, my little sister corrected my English.

I also remember when I was in 5th grade, the class had to take turns reading out of the science book.
When it was my turn, I came across a word that I was not familiar with and pronounced it exactly like how it is spelt: con-science.
I pronounced "conscience" as "con-science."
Ms. Clements corrected me, I laughed a little, made a remark about how the word "science" threw me off, and kept on reading.

I guess you can say that I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed.
That's the reason why I would resort to the age old method of... cheating!!!
Yup, yup.
As I like to say (and I know that Eugene agrees with me), cheaters always prosper until they get caught.
Hhahahaha... I'm just kidding... no, i'm not...