When I was about five, I remember mum telling me that if I didn't eat all my dinner, I'd fade away to a shadow. I spent years wondering what life would be like as a shadow. I also used to try to talk to shadows in case they were other people who didn't eat their dinner. Needless to say, none of them ever talked back to me. And I ALWAYS ate my dinner ...
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- My mom was always talking about "making
ends meat" but I don't ever remember having it served at dinner!— John Stees - I thought the song Shattered Dreams was acutaly "Shadow Dreams" and wondered what shadow dreams were— Golgademon
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- We were told at school by the evil dinner ladies that apple pips contained arsenic.....Anon
- I used to believe that I could outrun my own shadow!— Serge