My brother told his two little girls that the racing snails in the Guinness adverts were really valuable, and that if they ever found any racing snails in the garden they should put them in their pockets and bring them to him so that he could make lots of money. I dread to think of the state of their coat pockets...
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- When i was little, (4 or so) i convinced myself that snails only ate apple peels.
I have no idea why.— Terracrafty - I always used to think that Ozzy Osbourne was a racing driver!
Anon - I used to think that my father pedaled fastly when the car was racing through the countrysideAnon
- when i was a kid i used to believe that the water drops was racing on the window when it was raining outside — Emeline
- I used to believe that drag racing was when guys dressed in drag raced each other. LOL— Emmy