For some unknown reason to me I used to think that a terrible lobster lived at the bottom of my bed, and that if I put my feet all the way down to the end it would pinch off my toes.
I was scared to grow taller for fear that in my sleep I would put my feet all the way down by mistake.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- My dad told me that the reason feet were stinky was because they grew out of your butt.— Veronika
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- When I was little, I used to believe that people REALLY DID need a pinch to grow an inch.— Marjorie McNaughton