When my son was about 4 he informed me that the little yellow wild flowers growing on the side of the freeway was because somebody spread butter all over the grass the night before.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- If you held a buttercup under your chin and got a yellow reflection then you liked butter!— Tilly
- i thought that new disney peter pan song said "spread your legs" but its really "spread your wings"— shasta
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette