My grandparents on both sides grew up on farms and moved to the suburbs as adults, therefore there was always this misguided farm wisdom in the city. One of my Grandfathers used to say that "Turkeys are so stupid that if it was raining they would drown." (by looking up into the sky and filling their mouth and nostrils with rain.) As a college freshman moving to Northern Wisconsin (major farms of all types) I thought that the Ginsing fields (which are covered entirely using posts and enormous tarps) were turkey shelters.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that the big bales of hay wrapped in plastic sitting in the fields on farms were cow eggs.Anon
- I thought people from Turkey actually praised turkeys...Anon
- I knew that dairy farms have silos so I figured that they're where the milk is stored.
— marianne - When i was a kid, i used to think that my dads moustache grew out of his nostrils — l.j.
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- When I first heard Stawberry Fields Forever, I misheard the lyrics as Strawberry Fields For Trevor.— Matt