animals

I used to believe that alligators lived in a lagoon by me.

Once my brother told me that spiders bite and kill you and i believed him, that was 11 years ago (im 13 now) and im still scared of them

When I was very little, we had a pomeranian and a cat. I used to think that if you put your finger in a dog or cat's ear, a little dog or cat's head would grow on the tip of your finger.

when i was about 8 me and my best friend found a ickle shrew n decided to keep it as a pet in her room. When later that day we discovered another shrew we thought we were the luckiest kids in the world cos we could have one each. so we set up a little "home" 4 them and went out 4 the day. when we returned we decided to check up on them. Picture the scene: one extremely FAT shrew and half another shrew. 4ever ive been disturbed by it (but it seems 2 entertain my mates)

In the house I grew up in, there was a grate in the front yard, and I used to think that dolphins lived down there (because I was told alligators lived in sewers). So I took it upon myself the responsibility to 'feed' the 'dolphins' with leaves and garbage and "berries" I found in my neighbour's backyard. I also thought it would be nice for me to talk to them once in awhile so they could have some company.

Then I found out alligators don't live in sewers, either.

That's when I gave up on the dolphins.

In kidnergarten, my friend Warren brought a dead (petrfied? fake? Hey I was 5, i dont know) starfish to school to show me. He said that even if it was dead, if i touched it then it would flip over quicker than lightning and poison me. I didn't believe him, and I slowly reached my hand over... and WHAMM! he flipped it over onto my hand and I ran screaming to the other side of the room. Even though now i realize that HE flipped it -clever guy!- I still don't like starfish.

I used to think that my friend's dog was an alien, because it's eye's glowed at night. I asked my dad if "they" were going to take over the world. He said that they already had. I was scared for a while about it.

i live in the desert, and a lot of the mountains here have large caves. when i was a kid my dad used to tell me that wombats lived in the caves. i didnt even know what a wombat was. i figured they were ferrocious animals that could eat a little kid. it wasnt until i was watching the discovery channel when i was a teenager that i learned what a real wombat was. and i do not beleive that they are indigenous to the nevada desert.

Once my mum told me that if I saw a wasp, if I stayed still it wouldn't sting me. One day, out in the garden I was approached by three hornets, which I thought were wasps. I decided to stand as still as humanly possible, only the damn things wouldn't go away. I stood there for over half an hour until the hornets got bored. I'm glad I got over that one.

Wasp Chasing. My mean sister told me that if a wasp wouldn't leave me alone in the garden, all I had to do was run around the garden twice and into the house as fast as possible. We had a massive garden. So I did this several times-it worked! Of course it did, by a couple of metres it probably flew away/got bored while I was running my little legs off round and round the garden CONVINCED it was right behind me.

When I was little I wouldn't give up my pacifier. My mom told me that the baby bunnies that lived in the backyard didnt have a boo (thats what I called it at the time) so i told her that I'd let them use it during the day and they could give it back at night. I believed that's what was happening! Later on, I asked why Bugs Bunny had such big teeth that stuck out. "Because he kept his boo for so long" she said. I took it out of my mouth and never used it again!

When I was 10, i was very gullible and really afraid of death. My cousin who is the same age as me told me that all squirrls had rabies and that is they got anywhere near me (like 15 feet away) that I would die. One day, I feel off my bike and hurt my leg. I couldn't get up. Then I saw a squirrl coming near me. My cousi then proceeded to tell me that there were squirrls coming at me in all directions. I was so scared because I couldn't even get up and run away. To this day (i'm 17) I am absolutly terrified of squirrls. I still can't get anywhere near them. They should all die.

When I was younger we lived out in the country and had an abundance of salamanders and frogs. One day I saw a striped frog and had just learned that there was a such thing as poison dart frogs, which looked similar to this particular frog in my yard. I ran in to my mother, screaming that we had a poison dart frog in the yard and that it would kill us all. She told me it was, in fact, a poison dart frog and that I should kill it, just joking around with me and knowing my love of animals (and assuming I wouldn't do it). As much as I hated this idea, I was afraid it would kill my family, so I ran out and stepped on it, twisting around on it to really squish it. Some of the blood gushed up onto the open toe of my clear jelly shoes and I freaked out, believing I was going to die because the blood was on my shoe and could get on my skin. I went inside to tell my mom that I had killed the frog and that I was probably going to die because of saving them. She was flabbergasted that I had done such a thing, but also could barely contain her laughter. She never told me it wasn't a poison dart frog until I was much older, so I thought for the longest time that we had them in our yard...but I never killed another one.

When I was little (grade 2 maybe) I saw a seagull pick up some chewing gum. It started expanding like it was in a bubble so I thought birds were smart and acted like humans!

i used to think that when someone asked someone else if they were a dog person or a cat person they meant:
when u die will you become a cat or a dog?

when i was between the ages 3 and 10 i honestly thought that if u touched a pink flamingo you would turn pink also... i never really came into contact with them, but whenever i saw flamingos in the zoo i would stay as far away from them as possible!