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When I was little, my mother said that you could tell what the weather was going to be by looking at cows in the pasture. If they were standing up, it meant it would be sunny. If they were laying down, it meant rain (or maybe it was the other way around?) Anyway, one day, we drove by a farm and I saw that some of the cows were standing up and some laying down. I asked my mother what that meant, and she said "Scattered showers."

CowPie

I thought worms would hurt their heads (?) by bumping into rocks in the dark, so I collected some and painted them all luminous green, so that they would glow in the dark. I don't know if they could see better, but they didn't live much longer.... sorry, worms

Claire

I use to belive that sharks were really nice and wouldn't eat you and that they loved choclate bars. Well i really wanted to see one so i brought a couple of hershey bars. Well, i would throw them in and they would sink a little ways after so i would swim really fast to see a shark, sadley enough i never did.

oompa loompa

When I was little i always saw those deer crossing's so i would always wonder how did the deer know how to cross their

weston

I used to believe that when people said, "The straw the broke the camel's back" they were talking about a drinking straw. I kept trying to imagine the biggest straw I could hurting this mighty creature and it still didn't make sense.

Andrea Scher

my 7 year old cousin is totally adamant that naomi campbell is a camel, because she hears naomi's name as 'naomi camel' its so sweet!

harriet

this 1 is for my daddy, we went on holiday to sea world and my dad was constantly going on about going to see the "wallyruses" it was only till he pointed to one that we worked out he was trying to say: walrus (he was 46 at the time)

Anon

I used to believe that brown cows were the ones that gave chocolate milk, and that cows that lived on mountains had 2 legs shorter than the other 2 so they wouldn't fall over on the mountainside. This was all due to overhearing my parents reminiscing about when my grandfather (Dad's side) and the things he told my aunt, who also believed them. I didn't figure out why they were laughing until I was older.

Debi

Once I saw a man using a monkey grinder on TV. When I saw the monkey just instantly dance, I was totally convinced. Once I went over to my friends house and she said, "Wanna play with my jack in the box?" To which I replied, "No they hypnotize you!" I thought that the monkey grinder was a jack in the box and that they make you dance when you hear it. From then on, I referred to a monkey grinder as a "monkey box".

Stupidkid

i used to think that eyeshadow came from the wings of butterflies cos it feel the same lol I was like what, maybe 5 or 6 years old? hahahaha

Angie

When I was about 3 I asked my mom where baby horses came from. She told me about "the birds and the bees." Afterwards I responded "Oh. I thought it had something to do with their feet."

Diana

I used to believe that crickets chirping were actually some coach just blasting his whistle over and over and over.

Tweedle Dum

One day i found a rabbit and i went in and asked my parents how to catch it... they told me if i sprinkled salt on the rabbits tail it would slow down so i could catch it... i went out there for a good 45min and tried to sprinkle salt on it's tail... my parents jus stayed in the house and laughed at me.... i later came in and cried... they still tease me bout it today....

Teesha

up until the age of 15 i used to belive that there were male cows i didnt realise that cows were female n bulls were males.

anon

When I was about 3 we lived on a small farm with a pond. I heard this bullfrog at night and didn't know what it was, so I asked my mother. She offhandedly said "It's a bullfrog - that's a great big boy frog that lives in the pond. He's calling out because it's warm."

Although she meant "great big" in comparison to the other (female) frogs I thought she meant in comparison to HERSELF. Therefore I imagined this 7 or 8 foot frog in that bitty pond and wondered why I hadn't seen him, but was too afraid to go look.

A few years later I saw a bullfrog and realized what she meant.

Notta Fly

I used to believe that milk came from cows, so water came from horses. hahah

Melissa O'Connor

When I was a kid I was terrified of the ocean because I was sure I'd get eaten by sharks. So my dad told me that the bouys they use to mark off swim aread held shark-nets that would keep them away from the swimmers.

Jen

When I was little I used to believe that sharks lived inside water beds. One day my mom tried to lay me down on a water bed and I cried. She tried to explain to me that sharks do not live in water beds, but I would not believe her.It took me a few years to get over the fear of sharks living in water beds.

Water Bed Sharks