When my friend was little she had a pet slug but she didn't know what to feed it so she went to her brothers for help. Upon asking what they ate they told her "slugs eat salt." She cried and cried when she found out slugs did not like salt!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I thought gherkins were pickled slugs.— Cat
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- When I was little, I believed that slugs fell from the sky because they always came out when it rained.— JoJo
- I used to believe that slugs were deadly and they would bite you and kill you. 0_o Where did I get that idea?— What was I thinking?