When I was little I read a story in my Ranger Rick magazine about this baby worm who was warned not to go to the surface when it rained because he might squiggle onto concrete and then the sun would come out and dry him up. The worm didn't listen and soon he found himself on concrete, drying up quickley. Luckily, along came a little girl who saved him by picking him and up and throwing him into the grass. I believed that I was like that little girl and it was my mission to save all the worms that wiggled their way onto the pavement after a rain storm. I still try to rescue every single stranded, helpless worm to this day and I'm 20 years old. I also have an overwhelming sense of guilt if I can't get to all the worms.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- i used to think poo was a worm in me that ate leftovers that my tummy didnt want, that was full and left.— vanessa
- Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.— Marc
- I used to believe that it rained worms, because the sidewalks were always covered with them after a rainfall.— Miss Naive
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- I used to believe that, in cities, if you dug deep enough in anyone's lawn, eventually you'd hit the concrete.— Kevin Fox