When I was born, a friend of the family made me a blanket and gave me a teddy bear. I carried these with me every moment of my life until I went to kindergarten. The bear often required minor stitching from Mom "to keep his beans in," as she said. Well, I thought humans were filled with beans (that is, polystyrene pellets) too, and if you broke your leg, beans would come out too. (Blame my fear of breaking a leg on my ballerina sister.) Consequently, I developed a fear of walking down our spiral staircase, lest I slip through the stairs and fall to break my leg and spill my beans all over the floor.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- That baked beans were made of pasta! Spaghetti is?!Anon
- Until just a few seconds ago, I thought gherkins were beans or something weird like natto...Anon
- I used to think people were called "human beans".— Dave
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- My mum used to tell me that baked beans were just peas covered in tomato sauce.— munky
- My sister believed the pork in pork and beans was marshmallow...and would always "fight" us for it.Anon