I must have been home sick the day they taught this in school but in some amazing way I managed to miss the truth about raisins. I was well into my 20s before I found out that they are actually dried grapes. (I had been wondering for years why I never saw a raisin plant.)
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen
- I used to think that grapefruits contained grapes, and you got grapes by cutting the grapefruit open.— Grapefruit
- I used to think the woman on the the Sunmaid Raisin box was my mom— Me
- My friend managed to convince a gulliable kid at various stages of school that he was superman and a robot.— naff
- I used to believe that if you soaked a raisin (or prune) in water, it would turn back into a grape (or plum).— C.C.