When I was little my mom told me that if I pouted and stuck out my lower lip a bluebird would come and poop on it. I would quickly make my lips as small as possible. I did not want to get pooped on!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- My Dad use to tell me if I pouted and stuck my lower lip out, a bird would come and poop on my lip.— Tom
- My aunts use to tell me that when I pouted the crows would come and bite my lips. Anon
- My mom told me that rain would help me grow... at a small 5'3" the reality set in quickly.Anon
- I used to think it was true that only ugly girls poop and I thought I was an ugly girl because I poopedAnon
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- When I was little I believed that when I put lipstick on my lips, the lips grew.— Alba Águila Castelló