I convinced my sister, who was about five at the time (and I was about 11) that 'the ants' kept steeling her stuff. Well, it wasn't the ants, it was me! Everytime she would 'lose' something, she would run out and say, 'I've lost ..." then I would pull her asside and say, 'it was the ants again, i saw them ..." and she would run outside and yell at them! Man, I used to crack up when I would be sitting in my room, playing with my sisters toys, and I could hear her outside ...
"Ants! Give me back my toys!"
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- My older sister used to tell me that ants were bees. My mom was very confused when I refused to go outside.— Paulette
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- I used to believe that Marmite was made of ants...— Tam
- I used to think that the gas meter made antsAnon
- I used to believe that snakes don't have legs cause ants bit them of.— Lulzy
- my dad used to tell me that if I ate in bed that ants would come out at night and eat my eyeballs!— jeps