I used to believe that the word sickle was short for popsicle. "He cut the grass with a sickle," would mean a guy cut some grass eating a popsicle - like on a hot day perhaps? Made sense to me at the time.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- That eating grass was a sure fire way to gain superhuman powers.— Brendan
- When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass— Landon
- I used to believe that mushrooms in the grass grew if it was sunny and rained at the same time.— Ryan
- I used to think that dandilions were marshmallows on grass— Vernon D'Souza
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- I thought hills were dragons sleeping under the grassAnon