animals

When I was young Jaws was very popular and I finally got to watch it. I was terrified to go to the bathroom, take a bath or swim in the deep end of the pool because I thought Jaws would eat me.

I used to believe that at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve that all the animals on Earth could speak. (I could have swore I was taught this at Sunday school when I was little). I would stay up every Christmas Eve until midnight watching our cat and then start pestering it at the stroke of midnight to see if it would speak. Obviously, it never did.

When I was young, a family friend told me that if you put salt on a bird's tail, it couldn't fly and you could catch it! I spent hours and hours one summer with the salt-shaker (remember the tall Tupperware ones?) trying to get close enough to a bird. I have since realized, that if you can get close enough to actually PUT salt on a bird's tail, you can catch it anyway! Which I'm sure was her message, but I didn't get it then!

When I was about 3 years old, my dad would take me out on the boat to fish with him. To stave my boredom, I would bring a tape player and play "sing-along" cassets.

He had a few other friends with him this particular time, and one of them had caught a big catfish. I was so focused on the fish's mouth gaping open and shut that I actually thought the fish was singing "And the little one said, 'roll over.'" Then they dropped the fish back into the water.

(Much MUCH later, I found out it was actually my Dad doing the singing.)

I guess a lot of gnats flew into my eyes when I was a kid, because I eventually came to believe that they were good for your eyes and were suppossed to do that. So I would just kind of rub them in so my eye would benefit from all the nutrients they had to offer.

I see someone anonomously has already put my belief up, the one about cats being female and dogs being male but I also didn't know the truth until I was about 9 yrs. old when my mom told us about the birds and bees. Then I got the idea how things actually work. I am glad to see I am not the only kid who thought that.

When I was little, I remember time and time again when I would be eating with my Gramma K, and I would drop something on the floor -- she'd pick it right up and eat it. I was in shock at first. She always said, tho, that after all, "We eat over at least a ton of dirt every day, so it doesn't really matter." Well, years later, after eating lots of stuff that had fallen on the ground and remembering her motto, I realized that "over" could mean "over the top of," as in: Under our feet. I didn't eat dropped food as freely after that insight.

I used to believe that all cats were girls, and all dogs were boys. The two would get together and make girl cat babies and boy dog babies. I have no idea where this came from other than I thought cats were more feminine and dogs were more masculine.

i used to believe unicorns were baby horses

Where I grew up, we mad massive amounts of yellow jackets in the summer. Every year, around June, my parents would say "The yellow jackets are out!" and I used to believe that yellow jackets were a gang of people who wore jackets that were yellow.

When I was a little girl I thought all dogs were girls and all cats were boys. I also thought the little pieces of poop that get stuck by a cats tush would hurt them so I tried to pick them off my not so happy cat.

When i was younger i thought squirrels were filling the attic with acorns because the ceiling in my bedroom was severely cracked and I could always see squirrels enter through a crack outside with a couple of acorns and exit empty-mouthed. I thought that one night my ceiling would collapse from the weight of the acorns and I would be killed. ; ;

When I was a wee lad I always presumed dogs pooped out of their mouths, I have no idea why that would be...

I used to believe that my Dad could understand what animals were saying.
He has pinhole indentions in front of the top of his ears, and when I asked
him what these were he told me they enabled him to understand what
animals said.

To this day I'm not sure if he was telling the truth.

When I was four or five, my brother told me that worms would crawl up my nose. So every time it rained and the worms would come out on the sidewalk, I would stand perfectly still, petrified with fear, and scream bloody murder until my mom came to "rescue" me.

I'm not sure how or why I came to believe this, but when I was young I was convinced that all cats were female and all dogs were male. Imagine my surprise when my grandfather's dog had puppies! I guess I figured that cats and dogs mated together, and the cats were the ones to birth both kittens and puppies!