When I was about 5 I accidentally swallowed a roly-poly bug (I was blowing on it with a straw and acidentally sucked in). Months later I was ill and in the hospital and I overheard the doctors saying I had a "bug" in my system. I was convinced the roly-poly was making me sick!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to think that poly anna was a person— BOB
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- When I was around 4 or 5 I was convinced that you would weigh less if you sucked in your stomach on the scale.— S
- 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