When I was very small I met some kid who piled stones into a rusty bucket and when he tipped them out there was a ladybird among them. He told me that was how to make ladybirds. I tried several times, over several weeks, in his absence but failed. Was genuinely gutted.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to think that vanilla was the absence of chocolate, not its own flavor.— Gen
- I thought that cold was an actual, positive force and not just the absence of heat— terberous
- I used to believe that Spinal Tap was a real band. I was 19 and gutted when I found out.— Jim
- My sister told me not to touch hail stones because they were radioactive. — Mary K
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- When I was young i always thought the chicken really came from the big bucket outside of K.F.C..lol!!— kristi