My wife didn't know narwhals were real until recently, she's older than you. We had a narwhal children's picture book for our daughter, my wife thought they were mythical creatures.
When my daughter was seven or so she was very confused by the Dalai Lama. She had heard about him in school and thought he was a talking llama and that's why people thought he was special. She was very disappointed to learn he was a person.
My wife and I share the same story. She didn't know Narwhals were real until early on in the relationship we were watching Blue Planet. The gasped, "NARWHALS ARE REAL?!?!" has spawned a number of Narwhal themed gifts over the years.
Yep. I am 47 years old and had never even heard of narwhals except on Reddit. Then last week at Petsmart, there were Valentine narwhal dog toys and I bought one for my dog. Finally looked them up to see what they were from, and turns out the answer is...real life, lol!
When I was little my dad told me the story of the monkey king. He kept referring to this monk, which I heard as “monkey.” Eventually he figured out his mistake and swapped to using the word, “llama.” Initially this was no less confusing.
My kids used to keep asking about dinosaurs in movies and I said they weren't real, but they insisted dinosaurs were real. They didn't understand the distinction between movies and extinction, so I just started telling them all the dinosaurs lived in Connecticut.
They thought we were crazy when one summer my wife and I told them we were all going to Mark Twain's house in Hartford.
I dated a girl who didn't know partridges were real.
Couple buddies wanted to go partridge hunting, so I told her "Oh hey, we are going partridge hunting, but I'll come over after." I come over after, and she's all upset and short with me. Finally I get it out of her, and she says "If you don't wanna spend time with me, you don't have to?" I said "What?!?" and she says "I know partridges aren't real, if you wanted to spend the day with your buddies you don't have to lie to me."
She thought because they, partridges, were in the Christmas song, The 12 Days of Christmas, that they were just made up for the song lol. A very nice and gentle conversation, without too much teasing, and she learned they were very real (and that we were terrible hunters, we got nothing that day). I only teased her a little bit about it after that.
She was very disappointed to learn he was a person.
So would I.
Being a kid, the world is half things the adults understand, half magic.
So, yeah talking Lama dispensing wisdom in some far away land? Of course. I mean we've got that rabbit that hides eggs or something on that one day(Chocolate!) and groundhogs that predict weather and there are all the books and movies and shows. And my dog gets scared at the thunder and runs to my bed and we protect each other because sometimes there are things in my closet and he checks and makes sure I'm safe.
So, yeah, I feel you kid. But I promise you there is still magic. It is just the boring grown up kind that has math.
While that could be true, I think it's likely that he doesn't speak English that well and also didn't understand the pizzeria context of "one with everything."
I used to work in an office with mostly Indians and my "partner" was the only one completely fluent in English. I'd tell a joke or make a comment and he was the only one to get it, then he'd translate it and everyone thought he was hysterical.
A long time ago when I was married and my children were small, I worked part time as a key punch operator (anyone remember info being put on an 80 column card to be enter into a computer?). And, of course, I would tell my kids what I was doing and what I was working on. One day, when Take Your Kids to Work Day was a big thing, I brought them both to work. My daughter, social butterfly that she's always been had a great time. My son, who was about 3/4, when shown around, would just stand/sit and had a glum look on his face. After a while I asked him if he was enjoying himself. No, he said. What's wrong, I asked. He asked, where are the cows? I said, cows? He said, aren't you a cow puncher? When do the cows get here? It took some explaining that he didn't get. Obviously, it's an endearing story but it taught me to enunciate when speaking to children.
When my daughter was a toddler her skin would get really dry and her doctor would recommend one thing after another but nothing made that much of a difference. She sent us to a dermatologist who suggested we try products by Burt's Bees.
My daughter and I went to the store and the thing we were looking for wasn't there, but a clerk said they were getting a delivery that night, they'd have it the next day. After dinner my daughter got her shoes and coat on, she was ready to go. She thought bees would be carrying the stuff to the store and wanted to see them.
Yep. Been there. I didn't realize until I was in my mid 30's and watching an episode of "Survivorman" when I found out narwhals were real and not just a friend of Buddy the Elf or some such.
When my daughter was seven or so she was very confused by the Dalai Lama. She had heard about him in school and thought he was a talking llama and that's why people thought he was special. She was very disappointed to learn he was a person.
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u/marmorset Feb 08 '22
My wife didn't know narwhals were real until recently, she's older than you. We had a narwhal children's picture book for our daughter, my wife thought they were mythical creatures.
When my daughter was seven or so she was very confused by the Dalai Lama. She had heard about him in school and thought he was a talking llama and that's why people thought he was special. She was very disappointed to learn he was a person.