When I was little I was told what biodegradable was and thought you could watch the things that were biodegradable go into the ground, so I use to through orange pills on the ground in my backyard and try to see them disappear.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- My mom told me that if you suck your thumb, wourms would crawl up out of the ground and eat it up!— Kat
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen