My grandparents lived on the coast and there was a small island on the horizon. My Poppa used to tell us it was covered in trees that grew lollies and the trunks were made out of chocolate. If we were really, really good, one day we'd take a trip out there. I absolutely believed that little tale for years! It makes me smile to think about it...
A childhood belief about sweeties
others believed things like this
- I believed that chocolate milk must have been cow diarrihea......makes since to me— Suzanne
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- My older sister had me convinced that noodles grew on trees, but that rice was man-made...— Trusting little brother
- Hasn't everyone, at some point or another, believed that pickles grew on trees? I sure did.— Matt c.
- When I was 6 or 7 years old, I absolutely believed that if a thermometer broke--the world would end. — Suzi
- Chocolate, they say, rots your teeth. I believed if you drank chocolate milk, your bones would be brown.— Dellio