We had a big pine table in our kitchen, and I used to believe there were these little animals that lived in the knots called 'oi-ee's. Oi-ees were bone-shaped, with a little smily face at the top. They were perfectly friendly, and didn't frighten me at all.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends
others believed things like this
- .. the knots in wood would turn into dinosaurs. I was petrified of pine cladding.Anon
- I used to believe that Casper the Friendly Ghost lived in my dad's car.— Michael
- i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it— roy
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin