When I worked at a children's camp in France, we told them that they had to tie a piece of string across the bottom of their tent door (about 20 cm above ground). This was to stop the scorpions walking into their tents - they would walk up to the tent, catch the string in their tails and turn around again. Worked well, and every week we got the kids tying string to their tents, until one bright spark asked "but what about the baby scorpions?!"
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- I used to want to be a garbage man when I was older because I belived they only worked one day a week— Oscar the Grouch
- I used to beleive in stores that were open 24/7 , that the people that worked there worked 24/7 nonstop.Anon
- I used to belive that employees who worked at 24/7 shops lived there and never slept!(they worked 24/7)— tilly Waukesha WI
- I thought if someone worked full time it meant they worked 24/7 and never did anything else!— andalite