I managed to convince my cousin visiting from America that in Australia we call 'Koala Bears' 'Drop Bears'! We told her that if you walked under a gum tree it would drop down and try to bite your neck! She was so convinced that she would run screaming when ever she walked under a tree!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to believe bears made honey.— thetruthabouthoney
- I used to think there were polar bears in poland when I was 6— Lucy
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john