When I was quite young I knew there were two kinds of snow: white and black. I didn't know where the black snow came from but I knew where to find it -- alongside the road. One day I said to myself (because I also thought I had to explain my actions by thinking out loud, like on TV) that I was already familiar with the taste of white snow but not black snow. So I scooped up a handful and put it in my mouth. Needless to say, it tasted just awful and I never did that again!
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought Mary had a little lamb whose FLEAS were white as snow.— jen
- Brown or otherwise non-white snow was snowman poop. My kids believe it too!— Dellio
- I thought that old movies were black and white because the world was black and white then. — K
- I thought snow had diamonds in it because it sparkles when the sun hits it.— Giselle
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw