My kindergarten teacher’s name was Miss Milman. So of course I had to ask her one day if her husband was a mailman.
Also, when my older brother went in for a tonsillectomy, I asked my mother what exactly “tonsils” are. She told me that they are small pieces of tissue in the back of the throat. So for years, I imagined tonsils as being little wads of Kleenex.
During summer afternoons in the early Sixties, my parents would often ask one another what or how the Dodgers did that day. This led to my long-held belief that “Dodger” and “baseball player” were synonymous and interchangeable terms. In fact, I’m giving serious consideration to going back to that viewpoint. That way, the Dodgers win the World Series EVERY YEAR!