animals

I used to think that worms were baby snakes. My brother did this to me, still to this day I cant touch a worm or get close to a snake~

I was made to beleive (when very young) that rabbits lived by the road side and threw stones at cars going too fast, if the where really angry they threw large stones which sometimes cracked the windscreen.

when i was 36 i believed that babies came from rhinoaserous and monkeys were born from black butt hairs

When I was about 7 my dad, older brothers and I were walking around my grandparents farm. My dad told us to look around to see if we saw signs of deer. He was observing footprints and other obvious signs. "Yea! I see them," I exclaimed. "Deer eggs!" I was looking at all the hedge apples that had fallen on the ground. Dad still thinks it's funny.

when i was little i used 2 belive that cats whiskers were good luck so when my cat was near me i used to grab them and say look now i have good luck. one day i decided that if i cut them off i would have good luck as long as i had them ( to bad thats not true) when i did cut them off (i did it a few times) it took my mom a while to know what happened then she found out what happened she grounded me from scisors for a year and told me never to do that again and i told her it was for god luck and she couldnt believe it she broke out laughing.(i was still grounded) i still have my cat and now i have a dog i dont believe that my cats whiskers are lucky anymore!!

My St. Bernard would stare at me all of the time if I wasn't paying enough attention to her. I eventually came to the conclusion that she was an alien, studying my habits so that she could tell her other alien friends when they came to visit her.

I used to believe that if you lay in the grass an ant could crawl into your ear and eat your brain. That's what my older brother told me, anyway.

I used to believe that all dogs were male and all cats were female. Until I saw a litter of puppies being born (males didn't have puppies!!).

When I was little, I thought all cats were girls and all dogs were boys!

I spent a year teaching foreign 14-year-old children from developing countries in Spain, and I had many stories about that.
The one I prefer deals with fabulous creatures. I was asking children to make a list of fantastic animals. Then, a couple of girls from Dominican Republic asked me to add dinosaurs to that list. "But there were dinosaurs, once upon a time", I argued. "No, they weren't, they are in pictures only". "So, you think they are fabulous, as mermaids are?" Then, a girl from Equatorial Guinea cut in: "excuse me, teacher, but mermaids are not fabulous. I've seen them many times swimming in the rivers."

When I was about two or three I used to believe that the birds were starving. When they flew over our house, I felt so sorry for them...I thought they were trying desperately to find food. Well, this prompted me to begin shouting, my face toward the sky, "DOUGHNUTS!!! WE"RE GONNA GET YOU SOME DOUGHNUTS!!!" I was hoping that might cheer up the birds, and usually after that my grandparents would give me some stale bread to throw out.

When I was a young girl my family went to the zoo. My Uncle told me that when the Flamingos were bad they chopped off one leg and that is why so many Flamingos were standing on one leg. A few were sitting down and he said those had not learned their lesson the first time.

I used to believe that if I killed an ant or other bug, that all his friends and relatives would come back after me. I had the same fear of vengeful vegetables when I had to scrape the plates off into the garbage disposal after dinner.

I used to believe when the birds sang, they were telling each other about things I did. I would try very hard not to do anything weird to keep the birds from talking about me.

I used to think that spiders would crawl under my skin and lay their eggs in my body and then the baby spiders would crawl out of my ears. Thanks to my older brother, I still think spiders are creepy.

I used to play with ants. I put them on my little people swingset and spun them around and stuff. I fed them little containers of juice. I actually got jealous that they were having so much fun and I couldn't because I was so big.