animals

When I was younger, I thought shrimp normally lived in fresh water, but if you put them in salt water, they would grow and grow until they turned into lobsters! It wasn't until I, at the age of 10, matter-of-factly told an adult that I was disabused of that little notion.

when i was little i never had any beliefs. i used to think buffalo were what they were! big fuzzy animals that live on the plains, and all that. but then one day ,when i was maybe 4, we were driving through oklahoma and my dad pointed to a far-off speck on a "tower of rocks", he told my sister and i it was a buffalo!....and the way it got up there was by flying! and that they had wings. i didn't believe him but i always had this nagging thought in the back of my mind that buffalo wings had to come from SOMEWHERE!

This is a famous one, but I used to think that all cats were female, and all dogs were male!

when my mother said that mandates (like buffalo) like to play in water, i thought that i would coincide a mandate when i'm swimming in the sea

when i was little, i was terrified that earwigs would crawl in my ears in the night, so i'd try and stuff the ends of the bed sheet into my ears..
many strange looks occured the next morning..

When I was in pre-school, there was this big tree out in the corner of the playground with a huge knot in the trunk. I used to believe that a family of squirrels lives inside of the tree and the knot was their front door. I'm sure people thought there was something seriously wrong with me since I would spend the majority of recess with my ear pressed against the tree trying to hear the squirrels and talk to them. That probably explains why I didn't have very many friends.

When I was little, I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels, and changed colors and grew longer tails as they grew older.

I used to believe that I was the secret master of all the spiders in the world. If I clapped my hands in a certain way, in a certain rhythm, ALL the spiders on the planet would come to where I was standing. I tried not to clap my hands very often.

When I was a kid, I was told and believed that python don,t bite but swallow or else the teeths will come off. It was until I saw one that bite. Kid believes as was told, how innocence.

I used to think that birds were deaf - as you can't see their ears (because they're concealed by feathers).

Also, somebody once told me that if you feed a pigeon lemonade, it will explode!!!

When my brother and I went out for the day with our parents, my father saw a weimeramer dog. and pointed it out to my brother. When we were going home, my brother said "Those viagra dogs are cute." He didn't understand why we were laughing so hard.

Okay, here it is. When I was 10, I had a (then 2-yr-old) gecko named Hannah. It was March, so we had houseguests. (sisters JacJac&Jassy+mom&dad) So, one particular morning, Jassy decided to look in on Hannah. (Considering Hannah's room doubles as a guest room) It was about 6:00 in the morning, but JacJac&I weren't up yet. So, Jassy saw s piece of poop in Hannah's terrarium(sp?) and got all freaked out. she ran 2 my room, next door, which JacJac and I happened to be sharing. Jassy then said, "Jolie come here quick!!! I think your gecko gave birth!!!" I, being a lover of reptiles, said, "Reptiles don't 'give birth'. Go look for an eggshell, stupid." "No, I really think so!!!" "Fine I'll come look." When I went to go look, there was notheing but poop. FYI Jassy is 3 yrs older than me and didn't know!!!!!!! Hannah is now nearly 3 and I still laugh at that memory when I pass that room!!!

As a kid growing up my grandfather used to always tell us that the reason for the winding trails going up the slopes of nearby hills (from cattle grazing) was because of these extremely rare animals called Gyrasticuttus's (I can't spell it). Supposedly this animal was born with the legs on one side of its body shorter than the other... which was handy for eating grass as it wound up the hill. Unfortunately once at the top it couldn't get down because of the leg imbalance so it had to tumble end over end in order to get down. I believed him whole-heartedly for years and my sister and I (who usually fought like dogs) would spend entire car rides in silence trying to catch a glimps of the rare beast out our window... which as it turned out, worked very well for my grandparents.

When I was a kid I thought that bees could fly around the world in 4 seconds. I was so possitive of this fact that I told everyone I knew, and when told I was wrong I just thought they were ignorant. The sad thing is that I believed this for a really long time, and was quite dissapointed when I discovered the truth.

One day when I was about 6 I saw a spider in the bath. My dad told me his name was 'Algernon' and that he had known him for years! From then on me and my little sister honestly believed that every spider we saw in the bath was Algernon and that he was paying us a visit - he was almost considered a family pet!

When I was in kindergarten, my best friend told me all about dinosaurs. Well, I couldn't sleep that night. I thought dinosaurs were still alive and would stomp on my house!