When I was little (before starting kindergarten) my entire family convinced me that masquitoes wore sox. My mother said that the mother would knit the socks with its needle nose and even killed a masquitoe to show me its striped "sox" (which she said came from my godmothers striped sweater. I found out that this was all a lie right before entring school because my mother didn't want me convincing other children that this was true. To this day my family picks on me for believing them, and I'm married and have a child of my own!!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- I used to believe that God and Mother Nature were married.Anon
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz