Growing up in San Francisco, at the age of 5 or six I was convinced that when it rained it rained worms. After all, after a rain there were worms all over the sidewalks. Perfectly reasonable.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that it rained worms, because the sidewalks were always covered with them after a rainfall.— Miss Naive
- That when it rained it rain all over the world— Ann
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.— Marc
- When I was around four,I used to think when it rained in my area,it rained over the WHOLE world too...Anon