As a child, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood had me convinced that wolves were quite large enough to swallow Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother whole, even if they were quite unlikely to actually do so. So I envisioned wolves as huge. Then I was very disappointed the fitst time I saw actual wolves (in a zoo) and saw they are no bigger than some of the good-sized breeds of domestic dogs.
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When i was in girlscouts we would go "Snipe" hunting. Apparently these were flying squirrels/mice that would jump into your hair. We would go late at night and make sure we didn't get caught by them.
When I was about 4 my mum bourght me a white pony and she told me it was a unicorn. I believed her until I was about 11 when I had an aurgument with this other girl about unicorns exsistence.
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i used to believe that when my cat died in went to Disneyland. Atleast thats what my dad told me.
When I was little, I had a cat named Pepsi. I used to believe that cats grew up to be lions or tigers. And I knew even then that we wouldn't be able to keep him once he turned into a lion or tiger, so I would always (this is awful, I know) try to take his food away so that he couldn't eat and grow up, because I didn't want to have to get rid of him.
When I was young, I used to believe that the number of nipples (which I called "nursers") on our cats & dogs would tell you how many kittens/puppies would be in the litter. So when one of our cats was pregnant and I counted six or eight or whatever nursers, I told my dad she was going to have that many babies. He was more than amused....he still mentions it to this day.
I also thought that cats had engines inside that caused them to purr.
when i was young,i beleived that cats were strictly female and boys were strictly male.
i also thought that the radio were little people with a band in the glove compartment.
When I was a boy, I thought that dogs were boys and cats were girls. That's it!
Used to think that Cattle Guards were actual men that rode around on horses, guarding cattle. In fact, they are metal rails placed strategically in the roadway to keep roaming cattle from crossing the road.
When I was about 4 yrs. old we lived in an upstairs apartment that had a porch. Every night in the summer I would sit on my Grandmother's lap and as the street lights came on she would tell me that the squirrles turned them on. Most times I would see squirrles running along the phone lines so I believed her for quite a few years.
Our local park had a man-made lake about 2 feet deep. It had ducks in it. To get around on the lake, I thought the ducks' legs got really long and their feet walked on the bottom of the lake. I though they just folded their legs up under their feathers on land.
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I used to think that a vegetarian and veterinarian were the same thing. That since you worked with animals you didn't eat them.
When I was around 7 or 8, we moved to a house that had chickens, roosters, horses and a few ducks. My mom told me that the way eggs turn into baby chickens is that the rooster fertilizes the eggs. (I already knew how OTHER animals with "live births" got pregnant. I never really thought much of it, but I took this to mean that the chicken lays the eggs, and then the rooster sits on them and does the deed.
I skipped grades in school, and my IQ is QUITE high (not as high as it was when I was a kid, though!) Yet I didn't actually "find out" how baby chickens get "into the egg" until I was a young adult...
When I was 4 years old, I thought that rabies was a disease that turned you into a cat, if you were bit by a cat, or a dog, if you were bit by a dog. I was nipped by a cat one day, while playing. It didn't break the skin but I didn't know that an animal had to bite you hard so I thought I was going to get rabies. I knew that you had to get 20 shots in the stomach (this was back in 1975) so I didn't want to tell my mom I'd been bit. But I was terrified that when I woke up one day, I'd be a cat and my mom would find out that I had rabies and I'd get in trouble. I never did wake up as a cat!
I used to believe if a black cat ran across the street in front of the car, you had to spit over your right shoulder 3 times or you would have really bad luck.
I thought deer only came out at hunting time. The deer that were left pack up the kids in the Rv and when back home.Then one day in the summer time as we were driving home. In a field there were a pack of deer I said to my Dad what are those deer doing back its not November yet? He had a good laugh and said they live hear year around.
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I used to believe that if I didn't wash my hands after touching an animal, I'd turn into the animal that I had touched.
When I was little I lived in a cozy little neighbourhood, but in the spring, we'd got tons of fuzzy caterpillars. Now I love bugs, but I noticed that every time a kid steped on one of the poor things, that the caterpillar would gush out red and yellow guts. This looked an awful lot like ketchup and mustard, and I took this for true. I boasted to everyone that caterpillars were the ones who made ketchup and mustard. Despite the weird looks I got from people, I was sure I was right.
Now, my mother made hotdogs for lunch one day, but lo and behold, she didn't check for condements! But that was OK, because I had all the ketchup and mustard I needed... outside. While the hotdogs were still sitting out, I got a bunch of caterpillars, held them over the hot wieeners, and squeezed their guts out. When mom came into the room, she was quite pleased to find that her little girl had found some condments. When she took that first bite, I don't think I ever heard anyone scream so loud in my life when mom saw the dead, de-gutted caterpillars. After I explained my "brilliant" idea, she tanned my butt and I was forced to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches while the rest of the family had pizza.
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When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"
i used to believe that all cats were girls and all dogs were boys