I used to believe that when people said, "The straw the broke the camel's back" they were talking about a drinking straw. I kept trying to imagine the biggest straw I could hurting this mighty creature and it still didn't make sense.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- Through second grade I always concluded the pledge with '...indivisible, with liberty and just a straw.'— George
- I used to beleive that a straw would float in soda because a little invisible elf would hold it up.— Mike
- Thanks to my grandmother, I used to believe that my belly button was where Jesus blew me up with a straw.— Michele
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to believe that if you ate to much cookie-dough you'd turn into a camel.— Lenny