When we were little, my mother told my sister and I that every time we saw the fluorescent orange or pink surveyor's flags tied to stakes in the woods, that it meant the Girl Scouts had been there. If the flags were green or blue, it meant the Boy Scouts (of course!) had been there. On a Sunday drive when I was about 20, I saw some orange flags in a wooded area off the road. I said to my mom, "Look! The Girl Scouts were here!" She laughed so hard she almost crashed the car. She had forgotten she told us and was surprised that we had remembered it - and still thought that's what they were.
A childhood belief about excursions
others believed things like this
- I used to believe New Zealand and Australia were part of the UK because they have a UK flag on their flags — H
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.— Belle
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy
- once i was drinking aot of orange juice and my sister said i would get drunk if i had too much— deanna
- When I used to see the sign 'police accident' I thought it meant that a police car had crashed.Anon