Every time I went into town with my mother we would walk past a store with a large (aspidistra) plant in a hideous green pot displayed in their window.
"What an abortion!" My mother would exclaim.
Many years later (and ago) when training to be a nurse, the teaching matron asked us to raise our hand if we knew the meaning of the word 'abortion'. Mine was the only hand up.
I explained it was a big green plant pot. . .
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- I thought that the word Copyright was like copying your right hand on the copier.Anon
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky