i still don't know why earthworms do this, but when i was little it really concerned me--after alot of rain, worms would emerge from the ground and lay almost unmoving in the puddles. thinking they were injured/sick/dying (were they just taking a good soak?), i would open up the "worm hospital" and take steps to save their lives. sometimes i would move them to higher ground; sometimes i would re-bury them; sometimes i would put two close together, thinking they weren't moving because they were lonely.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.— Marc
- I used to believe that went the sun went down, it went down into the ground over in China.— Danielle, AL
- i used to believe that planes did not fly the ground just moved.— bob the pinecreek
- I used to believe that snow on the ground was clouds that were too tired to fly.— alex