Once when I was little I licked my mother's deoderant because it smelled good. When my tongue began to dry up I thought that I was being punished and had forever lost my power of speech.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- I was never able to get a good answere as to what hour of the day "evening" actually began— Tad
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail
- I used to believe that if you licked ice-cream, it would never finish. Anon