When you were a little kid what things did you not understand or misunderstand.

[caraher]

56. Fire drills

In kindergarten I was told we were going to have a fire drill. The buzzers went off and we all marched outside, and I was looking all over for the drill. I expected to see some huge vehicle with an enormous drill bit whose job was to drill a hole in the side of the building to let people out who were trapped by the fire...

I also thought that once you attained a certain age (somewhere in the teen years) you automatically became a hippie. (I turned 5 in 1969.)

A neighbor kid would periodically ask whether Alice Cooper was a boy or a girl. He always got me on that one, because I figured that it would only be an interesting question if Alice were male, but since it's obvious that he was trying to trick me clearly Alice is female. DOH!