animals

when i was small, i saw some olives on a shelf and asked my big sister what they were. she told me that they were little animals like fish and that the red bits were their tongues! im 14 years old and still believed that until i was told in science 2 days ago that its not true! my sister still denies this!

My sisters used to "call an ant hurricane" to me when she wanted something from me. So they said "oh mighty ants get me bother!" i would scream give them what the wanted.

When I was a kid I used to believe if you cleaned your dogs nose out and looked up inside of it you would see the devil. Some older boys told me this at the bus stop and I forever avoided looking at my dogs nose for fear of being scared to death.

(this is what my mom told me about when she was little) when she was watching tv, she would always think that the people inside were roachs that had crawled up inside and would dress up like people.....

When I was younger I thought that if you stepped on a crack it would make dinosaurs come out and they would eat you right up!

when i was about ten, i was chasing a pigeon and my dad told me it was an attack pigeon! i laughed and said that's not true. but then... the pigeon turned around and started chasing me!! to this day i am terrified of pigeons...

when i was a kid i always wonder how fish can sleep in water without any problem but i can't sleep in tub

When I was somewhat younger than now, I used to believe that waterfowl (swans, geese and ducks) tucked their legs into their bodies when they swam. Now I know that they use their feet as paddles...

I used to ask how shoes became untied and my parents explained that it was ants who untied them while I was walking. Well after that I would always be checking my shoes for ants on the laces and I could never find them. I just thought they were very sneaky.

My sister told me that if I was bad, I would be sent to the Okefenokee in a package where I would be promptly eaten by aligators, and I beleived it could be done.

When I was small, our BIG white male Pomeranian, Moosey, used to howl constantly when there were female dogs in heat in the neighborhood. Mom took him to the vet one day and when he came back he didn't howl anymore. She told me she had his voice taken out. I believed this until I was 13, despite the fact that he could still bark. By this time, the dog was dead, but I still firmly believed his voice had been taken out. In reality, he was simply neutered.

I grew up in Toronto, one of the few places where almost all the squirrels in the city are black. There were so few grey squirrels that kids used to say that grey squirrels had rabies and if there was one on the playground, we'd all run inside screaming. Then I moved to New York. All of the squirrels were grey. It was the scariest place I'd ever been to.

When I was young I was always told not to sit on the ground or else you would get worms. I remember sitting on the ground one day playing and spending the REST OF THE NIGHT watching to see if worms crawled out my behind.

I used to have this twisted belief that if I was nice enough to a wasp, he might become my friend. He would talk to me, walk on my arm but never sting, and convince all his buddies to refrain from stinging when they landed on me or any member of my family.

When I was little i use to belive that a aunt (the insecs) was my aunt Sarah.

When I was little my mom told me that I had to keep my room clean all the time or else the mice would make nests in my mess and have babies. Then she told me that in the middle of the night when I was sleeping, the mice would run over my face and it would feel like the waves crashing on the beach. To this day, I hate mice and I have very clean house.