My mom used to tell me not to leave crums around the house or ants would come. i didn't under stand that the ants acem from outside and would eat the crums, i thought the crums turned into ants so i sat there watching a crum for hours waiting for it to turn into an ant.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.— Rob
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- Thank you to the person who said that red ants don't eat flesh. I always thought they did! — Lola***Rose
- I used to believe that Marmite was made of ants...— Tam