My crochety great aunt who my older sister and I couldn't stand used to live next door. To try and stop her from coming over, my sister used to make me dig holes for her to cover with leaves in the hopes that she would fall down one never to be seen again. I guess our depth perception was lacking because these traps were about two feet deep maximum. However, me sister would order me to stop digging periodically and feel the bottom of the pit to make sure it wasn't getting warm, as our mother had shown us a Time/Life book with a picture of the center of the earth and we didn't want to spring a geyser of hot molten lava.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- I used to believe that if you point at somebody you make holes in the air and the fairys fall over— Bob #1
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali
- I never had a make believe friend but my sister used to tell me I DID but he left cause I was really BORING.— Jamie
- Me and my sister used to dig holes in the yard because we thought we could dig to china.— Savannah