random beliefs
My brother and I thought that you burped before you died, so whenever we played dead we'd let out a huge belch and drop to the ground.
When I was in elementary school, I used to believe, because of my mother's husband, that if you unscrewed your belly button, your butt would fall off.
I used to think that birds sang in different languages depending on the country they were in!
If you didn't have enough money to buy an item in a shop the shop assistanct gave you the shortfall and this was the change.
I used to beleive that pockets of air trapped under the ice of puddles were little bits of god, which I had to release by breaking the ice.
As a ploy to keep us from putting small rubber toys in our mouths, our parents told us that toys were made out of boogies. I imagined a toy factory, where the workers picked their noses...
I read in one of my books that the T Rex used its small arms for preying. I read this as "praying", and wondered how it could get those tiny arms together around its huge body.
When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.
I thought that ground turkey refered to turkeys grown underground. I wondered why they did that, as they only ever became little strips...
i used to believe that canada was pink and floated above america because if was pink on maps, and my kindergarten teacher said that canada was RIGHT ABOVE US.
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