I totally freaked out when my mother first showed me a peacock. Apparantly I confused the Dutch word of peacock 'paauw' with the imitation of a firing gun: pauw!
My mother has never seen me that scared ever since.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that thunder was aliens entering the atmosphere, and lightning was them firing lazers at us!— Zeepoo-zoop
- As a child I believed that when a person was fired from their job, they were executed on a firing range. — damien
- I used to think that all Dutch people wore clogs and lived in windmills— American
- My mother went to prom with Elvis.— Fiona
- I used to believe that God and Mother Nature were married.Anon
- When I saw my grand mother was very old I used to believe an Egyptian mummy!!!!
— Eomer83