I was brought up in New Zealand where there was a non-littering campaign telling us to 'be a tidy Kiwi'. My father brought us an icecream at a children's park and lifted us all up, one at a time to put the wrappers in the rubbish bin. The bin had a sign on it which said 'look at the tidy Kiwi' and in the bin was a mirror so you could see yourself being a 'tidy kiwi'. To this day my sister (now 35 years old) believes that my father was showing her that she belongs in the rubbish bin.
A childhood belief about family
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that kiwi fruits were kiwi birds testicles. They are the right shape and kind of furry— jefnier
- I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm— L. Webb
- that when I growed up I would be a footballer but that was obviously rubbish as I can't play for toffee— Darren
- When I was a child I used to believe children were being brought by stork.— Matteo
- I used to believe that a "No Loitering" sign was "No Littering", inexplicably spelled with a Brooklyn accent.— erin
- When I used to see a sign saying "Littering Fine" I thought they meant if you littered REAL GOOD!— Lou V.