When I was young, I had a huge appetite, and my grandmother would tell me that I had a hollow leg, so I'd knock on my legs to see if they sounded differently... it still makes me laugh 35yrs. later!
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- i used to associate the word appetite with apples, if you ate apples, you had an appetite. — elly
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon
- the if you swallowed a fly by accident that you would then grow an appetite for dirt.— sarah
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to believe that cow udders were hollow bags full of milk.Yet I knew that human boobs were solidAnon
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon