I thought the human brain was shaped like a raindrop and hung from the inside of the top of your head, and was surrounded by empty space. So, when my dad told his football stories and said his brain got rattled on more than one occasion, it meant that the raindrop swung and hit the sides of his head.
I thought the line in the Canadian anthem was, "Glory, awesome, free," instead of "glorious and free." I always thought, "why would the person that wrote it throw 'glory' in with two adjectives? It just doesn't fit." It angered me, actually, as I saw it as quite an embarrassing oversight in our national anthem. I was in my last or second last year of high school when I figured out the lyrics.
- Evil sibling stories -
- When I was quite young, my brothers convinced me that I had to sleep with the light on, because the second I turned it off, the snipers in the trees outside would take me out. I drove my poor mother crazy for quite a long time, because I would cry when she turned the light off, but I would cry if she left it on, because I couldn't sleep with it on. It was a no win situation.
- We went to a waterpark and I ended up holding up one of the waterslide lines, because my brothers had told me that at the bottom of every waterslide was a bunch of bloodthirsty leeches, just waiting to feast on the poorest, slowest swimmers. I wasn't a very strong swimmer at the time, so I freaked out and refused to go down. Took a very long time before I could go down a slide of any kind.
