This says a lot about my childhood.

[naamah_darling]

Until I was about six, I thought:

A guilt trip was something grownups actually took because they were mad at someone. It lasted all weekend and was always to someplace that you really wanted to go. But you didn't get to. Because you were bad

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[isabelknight]

I started to laugh at the guilt trip until it occurred to me how that misapprehension might have come about. Yikes

[naamah_darling]

I can't blame him, because *I* can't stop laughing!

XD

That is CLASSIC.

[isabelknight]

It is still one of my favorite stories about my dad, who is a really quiet guy - my best firend in junior high thought he was a mute for a year and a half - she honestly thought he COULDN'T SPEAK because he'd never done more than nod politely and grumble a quiet noise when she was over to hang out. He's gotten more talkative and more willing to show me his sense of humor as we've gotten older, but I love this story so, so much. Since then I look at him suspiciously anytime he asserts something I find odd, and make him explain - this led to some interesting conversations when he was showing me how to work on my truck last month.

"Really?" *skeptical look*
"Yes, that is really how you remove part X so you can work on part y."
"This isn't like the 'don't worry, ravens have antifreeze for blood' thing again, is it?"
"No, I swear, you *really do* have to remove that to get at system X."

[naamah_darling]

BAHAHA!

My granddad had the girls at the bank he went to convinced he could not read or write. I am assuming that this was advantageous to him in some major way, because he certainly COULD. But I've always thought that was kind of hilarious.

[kyra_neko_rei]

I remember hearing the phrase "babies born out of wedlock" and coming away thinking that "wedlock" was this horrible happening/situation/process/action that caused babies to be born to unmarried parents. Which was wrong because wedlock was terrible and it was bad to go around exposing the babies to it.

[naamah_darling]

OH OH OH GOD, THIS ONE! THIS ONE! I had forgotten this one! I thought the same thing! Holy crap.

I also thought "impotence" was, first, just the man being too physically weak/puny/tired/whatever to do the fucking, then, when I came across a slightly better context, that his sperm were not "potent." I didn't get that it was an actual bonerfail until an embarrassingly late age.