Once when we were in the woods, my father said he wanted to show me a gum tree. He led me over to a small tree that had pieces of Dentyne gum stuck to the branches. I don't know if he taped them there or hung the wrappers from the branches some way, but I was young enough that I believed what I saw: gum grew on trees. Another time he said, "Let's look in the creek to see if any pop washed down there." He then led me down to a creek where he must have stuck some soda earlier to cool. He was always playing tricks like this. I think it wasn't so much that he was a prankster as that he wanted the world to be a magical place.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- I used to believe that wind was created by the trees, that it came out of the ends of their branches. — STeve
- I used to believe that, by moving their branches from one side to another, trees made wind.— Pilar
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - When I was young and someone asked me what I wanted to be once I grew up, I'd say "A DOG!"— Alysia