When I was 4, I asked asked "Dad, why do pelicans have blue feet?"
He answered "Because the water is cold."
I was well into University before I realised I'd been had.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that hot water was red and cold water was blue.Anon
- when asked what i would like to be when i grew up, as a girl of about 5, i answered "a horsey".Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt
- I asked my father what holy water was. He told me it was the priest's bathwater. — Gwen
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon