animals

when I was little, driving around with my parents, if we smelled skunk, my mom would tell me that the skunks were scared, that's why they sprayed their smell. I believed that for so long, till I was around 12 or 13 and I repeated it to my mom and she laughed at me. little skunks, sitting scared on the side of the road...

When I was little there was a this bush and it was infested with lady bugs... I thought they were killer bees some how and so I was on a mission. A mission to save the world! I would mix water,mud, lotion, and anything I could fild and put it on them thinking I'd save the world.

When I was 4 or 5, we had a dog named cinnamon. She had been sent to a friend`s for awhile because we wanted some puppies.Well, my mom made some really delicious cookies and I asked what they were flavoured with. I, not knowing where cinnamon was, was mortified when mommy said "Cinnamon."

When I was younger, somebody told me that you had to be really careful if you're around mosquitos, because if you weren't paying attention then they would ball up and squeeze into your ear and never come out. If there were any mosquitos around, I would hold my hands over my ears. Even today they make me sort of uncomfortable...

When I was a kid some boy told me that if you threw a towel over your dog and talked to it, he'll repeat your words. Needless to say I found out the hard way what he told me wasn't really true.

Although many children believe that butter comes from butterflies, I was never intelligent enough to make that connection. Instead, I reasoned that if bees make honey, butterflies make jam.

I used to believe that you could turn a spider into a butterfly. One of my friends had a lighter and I said to him "lets light the spider's ass on fire, it has a hard shell, maybe it can turn into a firefly and fly away". So my friend lit the spider's ass on fire, the poor thing's ass exploded.

After laughing hysterically, I never looked at a spider the same away again.

Years ago, before my grandparent's dog, Rufus, was neutered, he was pretty frisky. One day, when my sister was about ten years old, she was playing with Rufus when he all of a sudden started getting "jiggy" with her leg. Since she didn't know that facts of life, she just told Dad "Daddy, Rufus wants to rumba!"

When I was in the 3rd grade. There was a small farm house whose yard bordered my school. They had many animals, including ducks. I believed that I could talk to the ducks and was able to convince others that they were talking to me. I managed to use it this gift to my advantage. I told many of my more gullible classmates that the ducks wanted the desserts they brought in their lunch. they would give them to me and I would feed them to the ducks. Of course daily the ducks watched curiously as I walked up to the fence and emptied my pockets of twinkies and ho ho's and feasted in front of them.

My mom told me the falames of the gas release pipes above refineries were there to keep birds warm. I always wondered why I never spotted any birds hovering around them. But I was an adult before I consciously knew differently!

once, my dad took me on a boat ride. there i was leaning over the edge, trailing my hand in the water, then my dad told me to be careful. the 'logfish' would bite my hand if i put it in the water. for the rest of the day we were logfish spotting. years later when we were out on a bout my dad told me the truth. (i fell for it!!)

I used to believe that when people were saying there was a "draft" in the house, that they were saying there's a "giraffe" in the house. I didn't realize they were talking about cold air, but instead somehow figured there was a small, but long-necked animal in our house.

Somebody told me when I was a kid that if you kill a preying mantis, it would cost you $1. Nobody told me who I was supposed to pay, but $1 sounded like a lot of money!

if you took an animal away from its mother at birth and let it live with you alone, then it would learn to speak your language instead of barking or meowing or something. i figured that no one ever did it because it would be sad for the mother...

When I was young, my parents convinced me that sheep which lived on hills were born with their back two legs longer than the front two so they didn't fall down. The walked down the hill backwards so as not to fall down.

I used to beleive that if you slept on your side a spider would come down from your ceiling and creep in your ear. Then it would lay eggs inside your cheek and then your cheek would explode
when the spiders hatched.